Antonia Hirsch: Komma: After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got H...
Muhle, Maria / Podesva, Kristina Lee
The companion piece to a 16 mm film installation by the same title, Komma (After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun) is based on Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo's seminal anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun. As a modified facsimile of the original book's first edition, the project reimagines Trumbo's novel through its syntactical idiosyncrasy: the omission of all commas. The book includes an accompanying pamphlet with essays by Maria Muhle ...