Within Our Gates

Tales of Militant Chemistry w/ Alice Lovejoy

09 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Peace Comrades! For this episode I have with me Alice Lovejoy to discuss her book Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War. T...

Memories of Underdevelopment w/ Steven Osuna

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode happy to have with me Steven Osuna to talk about the legendary film Memories of Underdevelopment by late Cuban Filmmaker and theorist...

Revolutionary Lucidity w/ Lara Sheehi

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I am joined by Lara Sheehi, someone if you have been paying attention to these anti-imperialist airwaves you have def seen, and if yo...

Notes On Third Cinema

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I am solo! I dive into a Patreon members extended question on Third Cinema and how can we envision it for today. It was a rather capa...

The Aesthetic Character of Blackness w/ Jemma DeCristo

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I am joined by Jemma DeCristo to discuss her excellent new text The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds like Us. Its a powerful ...

The Crisis of the Bourgeois Intellectual w/ Sudip Bhattacharya

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Returning to the show we have Sudip Bhattacharya to have an in depth discussion about intellectuals, artists and their role in the current movement. W...

Latin America and The Three Cinema's w/ Alex Aviña

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I have Alex Aviña joining me. We discuss the convergence of Latin American politics, leftist anti-colonial revolution and cinema. Ta...

Camera Palestina w/ Stephen Sheehai

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Sheehai joins me to talk about his text Camera Palestina, a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) an...

Towards a Dialectics of Aesthetics w/ Gabriel Rockhill

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I am joined by Gabriel Rockhill to further my discussions on arts, culture and aesthetics from a dialectical materialist framework. R...

The Bronx Needs Socialism. Talking w/ Congressional Candidate Andre Easton

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week I have with me Andre Easton, a Bronx born native running for Congress in New York's District 15 in The Bronx. We dig in on Andre's platform ...

Beyond Blaxploitation - Discussing the Radical Outlier, Top of the Heap w/ Macedonia

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode I have a returning guest Macedonia to discuss one of the most unsung gems of the 1970's; Christopher St. John's Top of the Heap. A radica...

Socialist Education in the Imperial Core w/ Layan Fuleihan of The Peoples Forum

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Popular educator and organizer Layan Fuleihan joins me to discuss the current battle of ideas here in the Imperial Core of the U.S. and in the long st...

Hip Hop and Revolution? A Critical Balance Sheet w/Jared Ball

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of Within Our Gates I am joined by my comrade Jared Ball to do a long awaited talk on Hip Hop and its politics. We dig into some sign...

The Spook Who Sat By The Door w/Adam Thomas

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peace Comrades! This episode is actually one I recorded October of last year, but was only exclusive on my Patreon, but it was too good of an episode ...

Report From the Battlefront. Third Cinema in a Second Cinema World.

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peace Everyone. Im back with another solo episode talking about the world premiere of my feature length film The Hand that Feeds, and my thoughts arou...

Listener Questions Answered! A Special Within Our Gates Episode!

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peace Folks. For this episode I am doing something a bit different. I decided to solicit questions from my listeners and answer them! And boy did I ge...

Entertainments Imperial Training Grounds w/ Samantha Youssef

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joining me on Within Our Gates is Animator and Scholar to Samantha Youssef to talk about the entertainment industry and how it uses often initially w...

Mississippi Masala and the Cross Cultural Conundrum w/ Sudip Bhattacharya

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joining me for this episode is writer and political theorist Sudip Bhattacharya as we dig into Mira Nair's cult favorite film Mississippi Masala. We d...

Within Our Gates - Capitalism, Tech and the Artists Tools w/ Dwayne Monroe

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How are the arts in the vaunted "age of tech" affected? And how do we study these effects with a materialist approach? To answer these questions I hav...

Decoding the False Notions of Black Hollywood w/ Chad Murdock

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is it Black Cinema or Black Hollywood? To me this is an essential question and for this reason I had to bring on Filmmaker Chad Murdock to talk about ...

Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s w/ Julia Alekseyeva

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week I'm joined by Julia Alekseyeva to talk their book Antifascism and the Avant- Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960's published by Universi...

70's Class Struggle: Analyzing Paul Schrader's Blue Collar w/ Jared Ball and Jared Ware

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peace Comrades! For this episode I am joined by two great guests who I plan to have here regularly to discuss Paul Schrader's 1978 film, Blue Collar s...

Black Hollywood's Sins w/ Marcus Pinn

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week I have my dear friend Marcus Pinn from the longstanding film blog Pinnland Empire with me. Marcus and I have a more freewheeling talk focuse...

Coppola's The Conversation w/Yasmin Nair

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week I'm happy to have Yasmin Nair back with me to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's classic film The Conversation. The idea came to us after the...

The Cinematic Dialectic. Paul McIsaac on his work with Robert Kramer.

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Very special episode this go' round. I have with me Paul McIsaac one of the principal actors in the cinema of the late great Robert Kramer. I take a t...

Black Noir 92 Part II, Goin' Deep Cover w/ Adam Thomas

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peace Comrades! For this episode we conclude our Black Noir 92 double bill with Bill Duke's Deep Cover. Joining me again is Adam Thomas, and we dig in...

The Encampments w/ Kei Pritsker and Ben Becker

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peace Comrades! Super excited for a special episode of Within Our Gates. Joining me is Kei Pritsker and Ben Becker, two of the makers of the very impo...

Sean Baker and The Golden Elevator Ruse w/ Skinner Myers

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peace folks. Excited to once again be in conversation with an old friend, Filmmaker Skinner Myers. We talk this time about the state of independent fi...

The Communist Arts, Exploring Alexander Bogdanov's Art and the Working Class w/ Taylor Genovese

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Extremely honored this week to have Taylor Genovese from Iskra Books to talk about a truly special text, Alexander Bogdanov's Art and the Working Cla...

Black Noir '92 Part 1, Digging into One False Move w/ Adam Thomas

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peace Comrades. For our next episode we have Adam Thomas joining for what is the first part of a 2 part series of episodes called Black Noir '92 where...

Theory Corner - Towards a Revolutionary Cinema

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the first episode of Within Our Gates Theory Corner I take a dive into the structure and inspirations for my new framework of this podcast. I touc...

Liberal Struggle Sessions: An analysis of Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, Israelism and Dahomey

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas