Episode 13: “Markers” Speak Through the Essay Film
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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Episode 12: Media Archeology, Autoethnography, and “Getting Personal”
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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Episode 11: Hooray for Hollywood and the Resistant Spectator
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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Episode 10: Notebook on Film Festivals and Max Mueller’s Mushrooms
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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Episode 9: Thinking Through Nonsense and Animation with Prof. Richard Cousins
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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