DPAC Casts

In our final episode of Indie Film, we take a closer look at Sean Baker's wild and often hilarious portrait of life on the streets of L.A. Armed with an iPhone 5, Baker delivers a vivid new style of representation for the digital age.

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Kelly Reichardt heralds a return to realist indie filmmaking with her Great Recession-era portrait of Wendy, a young homeless woman searching to overcome economic insecurity accompanied by her loyal and lovable pup, Lucy.

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Getting back to basics, Andrew Bujalski (unintentionally) launched the mid-2000s mumblecore movement with his critically acclaimed debut feature, Funny Ha Ha, a work that inspired many a young filmmaker to DIY. 

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Concocted in the furious depths of the AIDS crisis, Todd Haynes' Poison signaled not only the arrival of a major talent in American indie film but also the emergence of the New Queer Cinema movement as a provocative space for representation.

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This podcast episode discusses two seminal works of 1980s New York-based indie film, Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise" and Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It."

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