16: The See-Through Ironies of Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder's The Curse feat. Matt O'Connell

Joined by filmmaker and musician Matt O'Connell, we discuss the 2023-2024 show The Curse. feat. music from the OST and an outro by Matt AKA Fin Cinema. Find Matt's video work at https://matt-oconnell.com/ .Neoliberalism and gentrification; reality TV's saturation; ecofascism; the magical negro trope; dramatic irony and IRL irony; magical realism as counter-hegemonic; tokenization of indigeneity; transactional relationships; american unrealitySometimes it feels like something went wrong and that’s why we’re here, that we’re in some kind of cosmic cage or simulated psy-op. We become in the face of simulations and psy-ops, and from wrongness spring. In thought and in body, no one, not two, in sky and seed sewn, we dream up shadows to love through and hold their calloused hands, shaping change in the nether pool from breath to breath and coming up again and again seeking vistas of freedom.Learn from the labyrinths in breathing mountains. How do you look and where are you looking?Note when you’re stuck and record before breaking.How’s that feel, to rot with glee?

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