Dario returns to the School of Film and Television at Falmouth University to host a screening of Alex Garland's Sci-Fi drama Ex_Machina. He is joined on-stage by Dr Verena Von Eicken who selected the film and they discuss its potential to be read as a metaphorical critique of gendered power relations and the male gaze. Neil and Dario also discuss issues around the narrative structure of film, Alex Garland as a writer director and other recent examples of hard Sci-Fi such as Her (2013) and Under the Skin (2013).
Show Notes:
Link to Laura Mulvey's seminal 1975 essay Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema
Link to Donna Haraway's 1983 essay The Cyborg Manifesto
Her (live from the University of Chichester)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (w/ director Julien Temple)
A Ghost Story
London Film Festival 2018 w/Filmmaker and Critic Marbelle
The Piano (w/ Ellen Cheshire)
American Animals director Bart Layton
Film-Philosophy Conference 2018
Steve McQueen
Lek and the Dogs (w/ Dir. Andew Kötting)
Unsocial Audiences
The Islands and the Whales (W/ dir. Mike Day)
Juice (w/ film critic & podcaster Leslie Pitt)
Claire Denis (with Dr. Felicity Gee)
Right Now Film Festival / Brexitannia (+filmmaker Daisy Asquith)
In a Lonely Place (w/ Prof. Julie Grossman)
Dark River (with Clio Barnard and Andrew Kötting)
Paul Thomas Anderson
Contemporary Film Criticism
Post-Weinstein (plus an interview with Dr. Tamsyn Dent.)
La Notte (featuring film critic Robert Koehler)
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