In a silent way: Christopher Harris joins to discuss the origins of his filmmaking in his youthful ambition to be musician, his interest in stillness and silence as structuring concepts, and why his work is always as fun as it is challenging and erudite
Bells ring: for our final Podcast from TIFF 2024, David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels join to discuss shorts in the Wavelenghts program, as well as features from Muhammed Hamdy, Wang Bing, and Luca Guadagnino
Off the map: critics Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, and more
Bitter pills: Madeline Whittle and Mark Asch join to discuss Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud, Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door, and more
Dig in: critics Mark Asch and David Schwartz join to kick of our TIFF 2024 coverage, discussing Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl, Raoul Peck's Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, and more
Present pasts: for the final episode of our Fanon on Screen series, filmmaker and artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and writer Adam Shatz discuss Sarah Maldoror’s Monangambeee and Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting
Next man up: for part 3 of our Fanon on Screen series, editor and organizer Cheryl Rivera and writers Clifford Thompson and Adam Shatz join to discuss Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat by the Door
On fire: for part 2 of our Fanon on Screen series, Maysles Documentary Center executive director Kazembe Balagun, scholar Brent Hayes Edwards, and writer Adam Shatz join to discuss Gillo Pontecorvo’s period epic Burn!
Flying home: filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri and writer and programmer Greg de Cuir Jr. delve into the ways in which digital media represents and responds to colonialism, diaspora, and violence
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