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Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 13: “Markers” Speak Through the Essay Film
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his "Essays" from 1580, Michel de Montaigne says "the essayist tries too figure out what he or she thinks about something based on personal experie...
Episode 12: Media Archeology, Autoethnography, and “Getting Personal”
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m in love with a genre of filmmaking — the self-inscribed film, when filmmakers use the camera/pen to write their personal story cinematically.
Episode 11: Hooray for Hollywood and the Resistant Spectator
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his Oscar awards acceptance speech, Ke Huy Quan said “To all of you out there,” pointing at the directly at the viewer, “please keep your dre...
Episode 10: Notebook on Film Festivals and Max Mueller’s Mushrooms
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
LA Alfonso discusses film festival theory, Hot Docs 2023, cinematic notebooks and talks to filmmaker Max Mueller about his film "Entities with Knowled...
Episode 9: Thinking Through Nonsense and Animation with Prof. Richard Cousins
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A sudden detour into nonsense can cause someone to laugh; the getting of “laughs” is the motor that drives the nonsense in some early animations.
Episode 8: Jolt of the Cinematic Manifesto and French New Waves on the Beaches of Agnès
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The word manifesto came from the Latin manu festus—“struck by hand,” it came from the tradition of proclamations, or edicts — a “change-writ...
Episode 7: MeMovie — the Filmmaker as the Film’s Protagonist
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Holzman's Diary (1967) pioneered the genre of the autobiographical documentary which inspired filmmakers to turn their camera on their own lives...
Episode 6: The Watermelon Woman “Dunye-mentary,” Double Features, and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Watermelon Woman by Cheryl Dunye looked at the concept of the archive, film scholar says it captures the politics, drama and spirit of the Archive...
Episode 5: Stranger Than Nonfiction and Keyboard Fantasies
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Often labelled as subjective or objective, there is nonetheless a long tradition of reenactments in documentary films. Could there ever be objective ...
Episode 4: Scorsese’s Soliloquy, Cinema is Dying, and Bruised by an Image
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
LA Alfonso adapts Martin Scorsese’s "I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain" into a soliloquy, is cinema dying? Thomas Flight weighs i...
Episode 3: Lucas and Spielberg Sitting on a Beach
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg may have started a big movement while sitting on a beach in Hawaii in the late 1970s while bulding a sandcastle toge...
Episode 2: Teledivinitry, or the Window to an Interdimensional Dreamstate
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Swiss/Canadian filmmaker and video artist Peter Mettler, known for the film Picture of Light (1994) and many others, in an interview with Pa...
Episode 1: Sound and “Vision in the Flesh”
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If we feel movies so much, how much of the film's effect is due to music? That's one question I want to explore in a new radio series produced live we...
Circus Boy
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Vaccaro is a circus coach, a circus performer, an artist, a husband, a father, a friend, and a mess... Find out how "circus saved his life."
Asking for a Friend
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lester Alfonso unearths a recording of artist Michael Poulton answering some big questions about art and life as an #artist and it triggers a cascade ...
Heads-Up Dreaming
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While researching a film on the theme "Never Stop Learning," Lester Alfonso ends up meeting Dr. Carlyle Smith who may be able to see the future throug...
Night of the Hunter
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker Peter Blow's current top film pick on the Criterion Channel is Night of the Hunter. He noticed an unexpected connection between the authors....
Only Then Will Your House Be Blessed
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is art according to musician Harry Manx in his own words and music. #harrymanx
Let the Children Boogie
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lester Alfonso searches his 500 Words Before Second Breakfast for Bowie. Plus, My Bowie Breakup, The Rock and Roll Terminator, and more. #davidbowie
Birthmark, Part Three
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Birthmark, Part Three #birthmark Richard Gere, Tina Turner, Billy Corgan - what do they all have in common? Lester Alfonso shares his talks with filmm...
Birthmark, Part Two
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Birthmark, Part Two #scriptclub Lester Alfonso takes a draft of his Birthmark radio play to Mysterious Entity's Script Club and a discussion ensues.
Birthmark, Part One
27 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Birthmark, Part One #realasian Lester Alfonso recounts his experiences at Reel Asian Film Festival's "So You Think You Can Pitch?" competition 2014.