Episodes

  • Episode 13: “Markers” Speak Through the Essay Film

    Episode 13: “Markers” Speak Through the Essay Film
    Apr 19 2024
    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 experience."
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    57 mins
  • Episode 12: Media Archeology, Autoethnography, and “Getting Personal”

    Episode 12: Media Archeology, Autoethnography, and “Getting Personal”
    Apr 12 2024
    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.
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    57 mins
  • Episode 11: Hooray for Hollywood and the Resistant Spectator

    Episode 11: Hooray for Hollywood and the Resistant Spectator
    Apr 5 2024
    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 dreams alive.”
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    52 mins
  • Episode 10: Notebook on Film Festivals and Max Mueller’s Mushrooms

    Episode 10: Notebook on Film Festivals and Max Mueller’s Mushrooms
    Mar 22 2024
    LA Alfonso discusses film festival theory, Hot Docs 2023, cinematic notebooks and talks to filmmaker Max Mueller about his film "Entities with Knowledge."
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    59 mins
  • Episode 9: Thinking Through Nonsense and Animation with Prof. Richard Cousins

    Episode 9: Thinking Through Nonsense and Animation with Prof. Richard Cousins
    Mar 15 2024
    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.
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    59 mins
  • Episode 8: Jolt of the Cinematic Manifesto and French New Waves on the Beaches of Agnès

    Episode 8: Jolt of the Cinematic Manifesto and French New Waves on the Beaches of Agnès
    Mar 8 2024
    The word manifesto came from the Latin manu festus—“struck by hand,” it came from the tradition of proclamations, or edicts — a “change-writing” genre.
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    57 mins
  • Episode 7: MeMovie — the Filmmaker as the Film’s Protagonist

    Episode 7: MeMovie — the Filmmaker as the Film’s Protagonist
    Mar 1 2024
    David Holzman's Diary (1967) pioneered the genre of the autobiographical documentary which inspired filmmakers to turn their camera on their own lives.
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    58 mins
  • Episode 6: The Watermelon Woman “Dunye-mentary,” Double Features, and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

    Episode 6: The Watermelon Woman “Dunye-mentary,” Double Features, and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
    Feb 23 2024
    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.
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    56 mins