Dina Kelberman

Matt speaks to the artist Dina Kelberman about her 2019 film ‘The Goal is to Live’.

The feature length film is made entirely of clips from the Canadian TV series ‘How It’s Made’, and we discuss the process of making the film, including the soundtrack made by musicians Rod Hamilton & Tiffany Seal. We also geek out about ‘How It’s Made’ more generally, and talk about its relationship to the capitalist production processes it purports to explain.

Dina’s website with a trailer for the film - http://dinakelberman.com/#thegoalistolive

Manufactured Landscapes by Jennifer Baichwal -https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/manufactured-landscapes

Rod Hamilton & Tiffany Seal - https://soundcloud.com/rod_and_tiffany

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3W-3HPMWg

Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) - Harun Farocki - https://vimeo.com/59338090

Images of the World and the Inscription of War, Harun Farocki - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjOl8TY8GkU

Workers Leaving the Googleplex by Andrew Norman Wilson - http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/WorkersGoogleplex.html

ON ADAM CURTIS PART SIX: WITH ANDREA FRANCKE AND ROSS JARDINE

Matt, Andrea and Ross discuss the final episode of Adam Curtis’ TV series ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’.

We’re in a park! Together! In the sun! We sum up - talking about what we’ve learned about Adam Curtis, and ourselves.

References

Atlantic story about the data historian Peter Turchin - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/

Time of the Gods a film by Lutz Dammbeck - https://www.kanopy.com/product/time-gods

On Adam Curtis Part Five: With Andrea Francke and Oscar Francke

Matt, Andrea and Oscar discuss part five of the Adam Curtis Series ‘Can’t Get you Out of My Head’.

References:

John Akomfrah in conversation - https://www.lissongallery.com/studio/john-akomfrah-tina-campt-saidiya-hartman

C Thi Ngueyn - The Seductions of Clarity - https://philpapers.org/rec/NGUTSO-2

Maryam Tafakory's video essay Irani Bag - https://watch.eventive.org/monographs/play/6021b3a8555932006e2111b0

Riar Rizaldi Ghosts Like Us - http://rizaldiriar.com/ghostus.html

Black Power: a British Story of Resistance - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tj50#credits

On Adam Curtis Part Four: With Andrea, Oscar and Ross

Matt, Andrea, Oscar and Ross discuss episode four of Adam Curtis’ new series ‘Can’t Get You Out of my Head’.

We talk about scripts, the active vs passive voice, and the problem with making individuals the bearers of history.

Just one reference today - Schneider TM & Kptmichigan, The Light 3000 (Smiths cover) - https://youtu.be/vodnI38cNI0

On Adam Curtis Part Three: With Andrea Francke, Oscar Francke and Ross Jardine

The third episode! Ross is back, and he hasn’t watched it, so me, Andrea and Oscar try and summarise it for him. Also includes a good story by Ross about catching a mouse.

Woman captures dramatic video driving through flames while fleeing Woolsey Fire in Malibu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR0RQ8Gx6I0

Watching The Pain of Others - https://vimeo.com/298425068

Desktop Documentaries Tutorial with Kevin B. Lee - https://vimeo.com/500495238

On Adam Curtis Part Two: With Andrea and Oscar Francke

Matt, Andrea and Oscar discuss episode two of Adam Curtis’ new series ‘I Can’t Get You Out of my Head’.

We talk about the limits of the BBC archive, and the history of the Black Panthers that Curtis never quite gets into. Links to the stuff we mention in this episode are below.

Community Development as Micropolitics by Akwugo Emejulu (publisher’s site) - https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-as-micropolitics

Errol Morris and Adam Curtis conversation (full text) - https://www.errolmorris.com/content/interview/believer0406.html

On Adam Curtis Part One: with Andrea Francke, Oscar Francke and Ross Jardin

Matt is joined by Ross, Andrea and her son Oscar to discuss the first episode of Adam Curtis’s new TV series ‘Can’t Get You Out of my Head’. We talk about post truth, Curtis’s claim that what he does is journalism, and the affective or emotional tone of Curtis’s films. Below is a list of links to things mentioned in the episode

Tribune Article about Adam Curtis - https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/02/in-defence-of-adam-curtis

New Yorker interview with Curtis - https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/adam-curtis-explains-it-all

NXIVM documentary ‘The Vow’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vow_(TV_series)

The Civil Contract of Photography by Ariella Azoulay - https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781890951894/the-civil-contract-of-photography

Lutz Dammbeck - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198892/

Intimacy by Hamish MacPherson

In March and April 2020 Hamish MacPherson used social media to ask, “Are you having sexual or sensual intimacy with people who are distant from you during the COVID-19 lockdowns?”  People replied anonymously and Hamish asked friends and acquaintances to record themselves reading these texts out.  Then Matt turned them into this podcast. It contains some sexual references.

Words: anonymous. Voices: Adam Wilson Holmes, AF, Angela Andrew, Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot, Beth Bramich, Carolin Meyer, Conor James, Elizabeth Rochester, Emilia Robinson, Francisco Zhan, Genevieve Costello, Gillie Kleiman, Gregory Hari, GS,  Hannah Bellil, HMTIDT4U, Joshua Jayraj, Maria Sideri, May, Michael Whitby, Molly Chapman, Molly Martian, Nina Sever, Paul Hughes, Peter Jacobs, Ralph Pritchard, Sean Alayo, Tamara Tomic-Vajagic.

Music/editing: Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

You can buy a book of the texts with original photographs from stilllifemag.org with profits going to Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement and Covid-19 Prisoner Emergency Fund.

Lars Iyer

Matt speaks to the writer Lars Iyer about his latest book, Nietzsche and the Burbs. They also talk about method, music and what time Lars wakes up in the morning.

M.J. Harding

Matt speaks to the music producer M.J Harding about bangers, intensity, addiction, shame and the voice between speaking and singing.

Joey Holder

Matt speaks to the artist Joey Holder about conspiracies, getting caught in the crossfire of artworld controversy, and the time a clownfish squared up to her.

Richard Whitby

Matt speaks to the artist Richard Whitby about conspiracies, Virginia Woolf and the post-cinematic, and his newest film ‘The Lost Ones’.

Kate Liston

Matt talks to the artist Kate Liston about affects, stances, performance and CrossFit.

Ben Jeans Houghton

Matt talks to artist Ben Jeans Houghton about two of his film works. ‘2ndlife’ (2018), made on a residency in Japan, and a new work in progress, ‘Screaming Bird Singing Dawn Rainbow Mountain’, made at Hongti Arts Centre, Busan, an international collaboration made possible by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and supported by Arts Council England and Arts Council Korea.

Anne Duffau

Matt speaks to curator Anne Duffau about her peripatetic project A-Z, sci-fi and the power of parties.

Andrea Francke Part 3

The third and last conversation with Andrea Francke. This time we talk about Eve Sedgewick’s writing on paranoia and reparative reading. We talk conspiracy, strong theory, universalism and black feminism.

Andrea Francke Part 2

The second conversation with Andrea Francke. This time we talk about The Idiot, a novel by Elif Bautman, and from that, we talk about female subjectivity in fiction, mumblecore, and privilege.

Andrea Francke Part 1

The first of three podcasts with Andrea Francke where we read different texts and use them to talk about Andrea’s research and interests. For this conversation we both read some Chinese sci-fi (the book is called Invisible Planets) and then talked about care, AI, robots and subjecthood. (You don’t need to have read the stories to enjoy this I promise.)