Aja says goodbye to the IU Cinema podcast.
Footage Not Found is a co-production of the Indiana University Cinema and WFIU Studios.
Our theme song is “Only Ones” from the band Busman's Holiday off of their recently released album Good Songs. You can currently stream Good Songs on Bandcamp and you can find out more about the band on busmansholidayband.com as well as by following them on Instagram @busmansholiday.
You can follow IU Cinema on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook @IUCinema.
You can follow Aja on Twitter @Samuraiflicks, on Letterboxd @AjaEssex and on Instagram @Aja.Essex.
Check out Aja’s farewell post when it’s live on Establishing Shot: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/
You can continue to follow Aja and her pop-up theater Cicada Cinema @Cicada_Cinema on Instagram and CicadaCinema.com
IU Cinema’s bi-monthly calendar: https://cinema.indiana.edu/doc/fourthwall-vol1-for-website.pdf
IU Cinema’s website: https://cinema.indiana.edu/
IU Cinema’s blog, Establishing Shot: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/
This week's Footage Not Found features a long-awaited guest: founding Indiana University Cinema director Jon Vickers joins Aja to discuss the films and themes of Hirokazu Kore-eda with special focus paid to his first narrative film, Maborosi, and his most recent film, Broker. They also discuss Jon’s origins as a film programmer and exhibition entrepreneur and their shared love of the joys that blossom from the pains of everyday life.
Footage Not Found is a co-production of the Indiana University Cinema and WFIU Studios.
Our theme song is “Only Ones” from the band Busman's Holiday off of their recently released album Good Songs. You can currently stream Good Songs on Bandcamp and you can find out more about the band on busmansholidayband.com as well as by following them on Instagram @busmansholiday.
You can follow IU Cinema on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook @IUCinema.
You can follow Aja on Twitter @Samuraiflicks, on Letterboxd @AjaEssex and on Instagram @Aja.Essex.
Maborosi screening page:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2022-fall-program-saturday-november-12-700pm
IU Cinema’s bi-monthly calendar: https://cinema.indiana.edu/doc/fourthwall-vol1-for-website.pdf
IU Cinema’s website: https://cinema.indiana.edu/
IU Cinema’s blog, Establishing Shot: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/
This week's Footage Not Found features filmmaker Fred Kuwornu, the director behind the documentary film Blaxploitalian, which explores the little-known world of Italian-born and American Black performers and their roles in the Italian film industry. Fred also talks about his work with Spike Lee on the film The Miracle at Santa Anna and his role in the 2016 “Oscars So White” campaign.
Footage Not Found is a co-production of the Indiana University Cinema and WFIU Studios.
Our theme song is “Only Ones” from the band Busman's Holiday off of their recently released album Good Songs. You can currently stream Good Songs on Bandcamp and you can find out more about the band on busmansholidayband.com as well as by following them on Instagram @busmansholiday.
You can follow IU Cinema on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook @IUCinema.
You can follow Aja on Twitter @Samuraiflicks, on Letterboxd @AjaEssex and on Instagram @Aja.Essex.
Blaxploitalian:100 Years Of Blackness In Italian Cinema screening page:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2022-fall-program-thursday-november-3-700pm
IU Cinema’s bi-monthly calendar: https://cinema.indiana.edu/doc/fourthwall-vol1-for-website.pdf
IU Cinema’s website: https://cinema.indiana.edu/
IU Cinema’s blog, Establishing Shot: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/
By the pricking of our thumbs, the return of an IU Cinema series this way comes. For this week's episode of Footage Not Found, we set the tone for the changing of the seasons, as the leaves begin to dry and days begin to dwindle, by highlighting IU Cinema’s long-dormant series Friday Night Frights. What makes a horror movie feel so different on a Friday night? Listen to Aja try to untangle this question as she gets lyrical about the thrills (and chills) of movie-watching in the month of October.
Footage Not Found is a co-production of the Indiana University Cinema and WFIU Studios.
Our theme song this week is “Evening Flows” from the band Busman's Holiday off of their album Popular Cycles. You can find out more about them on busmansholidayband.com as well as by following them on Instagram @busmansholiday.
You can follow IU Cinema on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook @IUCinema.
You can follow Aja on Twitter @Samuraiflicks and on Instagram @Aja.Essex.
Friday Night Frights series page:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/series/friday-night-frights
IU Cinema’s bi-monthly calendar: https://cinema.indiana.edu/doc/fourthwall-vol2-web.pdf
IU Cinema’s website: https://cinema.indiana.edu/
IU Cinema’s blog, Establishing Shot: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/
For this week’s episode of Footage Not Found, we are joined by Indiana University Associate Professor Gerry Lanosga. Gerry details his life in journalism and, since 2022 is its 50th anniversary, gets into a discussion of the Watergate scandal as well as contextualizes the profession of investigative journalism through media portrayals, most notably All the President’s Men.
Footage Not Found is a co-production of the Indiana University Cinema and WFIU Studios.
Our theme song is “Only Ones” from the band Busman's Holiday off of their yet-to-be-released album Good Songs. You can find out more about them on busmansholidayband.com as well as by following them on Instagram @busmansholiday.
You can follow IU Cinema on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook @IUCinema.
You can follow Aja on Twitter @Samuraiflicks and on Instagram @Aja.Essex.
All the President's Men screening info: https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2022-fall-program-thursday-october-13-700pm
IU Cinema’s bi-monthly calendar: https://cinema.indiana.edu/doc/fourthwall-vol1-for-website.pdf
IU Cinema’s website: https://cinema.indiana.edu/
IU Cinema’s blog, Establishing Shot: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/
Indiana University Cinema’s new regular series “Women on Top” seeks to showcase a couple of things. It wants to show the audience that despite the large steps being made to amplify women's voices in the film industry, it has been primarily doing that through the role of the director when so many important and overlooked roles in the film industry have been shaped by women and femmes. It also seeks to give a window into the enriching opportunities and artforms outside of that director’s chair. This episode is a very brief tour of the IU Cinema’s fall “Women on Top” series, which trains a focused eye on the past, present, and future legacies of women global filmmakers, including directors but also writers, curators, cinematographers, costume designers, and more.
Footage Not Found is a co-production of the Indiana University Cinema and WFIU Studios.
Our theme song is “Only Ones” from the band Busman's Holiday off of their yet-to-be-released album Good Songs. You can find out more about them on busmansholidayband.com as well as by following them on Instagram @busmansholiday.
You can follow IU Cinema on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook @IUCinema.
You can follow Aja on Twitter @Samuraiflicks and on Instagram @Aja.Essex.
Women on Top series page: https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/series/women-on-top-legacies-of-women-in-global-cinema
Alicia Kozma’s writing on Women on Top: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/2022/08/25/women-on-top-spotlighting-the-work-of-global-women-filmmakers/
IU Cinema’s write-up on Kinuyo Tanaka’s Love Letter:
https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/2022/09/01/women-on-top-presents-love-letter-1953/
IU Cinema’s bi-monthly calendar: https://cinema.indiana.edu/doc/fourthwall-vol1-for-website.pdf
IU Cinema’s website: https://cinema.indiana.edu/
IU Cinema’s blog, Establishing Shot: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/
Welcome to the first episode of Footage Not Found (formerly A Place for Film), a podcast dedicated to filling in and contextualizing your cinematic gaps. For our inaugural episode, Indiana University Cinema’s Managing Director Brittany Friesner and Director Alicia Kozma sit down to discuss a new film series at the IU Cinema called New Americas Cinema. They detail how it was borne out of the longstanding International Arthouse series as well as define how it is different and aims to serve the Cinema's audience.
Footage Not Found is a co-production of the Indiana University Cinema and WFIU Studios.
Our theme song is “Only Ones” from the band Busman's Holiday off of their yet-to-be-released album Good Songs. You can find out more about them on busmansholiday.com as well as by following them on Instagram @busmansholiday.
You can follow IU Cinema on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook @IUCinema.
You can follow Aja on Twitter @Samuraiflicks and on Instagram @Aja.Essex.
New Americas Cinema series page: https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/series/new-americas-cinema
IU Cinema’s bi-monthly calendar: https://cinema.indiana.edu/doc/fourthwall-vol1-for-website.pdf
IU Cinema’s website: https://cinema.indiana.edu/
IU Cinema’s blog, Establishing Shot: https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/
This weeks episode is a little primer for one of the cinemas favorite recent editions: Monthly Movie Round-Up: Virtual Edition. I have my uneasy ally, Publications Editor Michaela Owens on to try and get y'all pumped up for what is a nice party and reunion amongst the regular IU Cinema bloggers. We even spill the beans on what will will be talking about next Tuesday.
You can find information on how to register for this event here:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2022-spring-program-tuesday-may-3-700pm
Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Criterion, Kino Lorber, Imprint Films, Arrow Video & 88 Films US.
On this months episode of Physical Media Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny, we have nothing but the biggest bangers. Imprint Films delivers The Odd Couple Collection. Kino Lorber brings Zoot Suit and Shakedown. Arrow Video comes through with awaited releases To Sleep So As To Dream and Come Drink With Me. I sit down with returning guest and martial arts master Jesse Balzer to discuss 88 Films US's releases of Shaolin Mantis and welcome mega surprise Monkey Kung Fu. Finally, I'm pleased to talk about Criterions incredible additions to their collection with The Last Waltz and Love Jones.
Hey Everyone,
My name is Aja Alexandria Essex and I am a woman. I'll talk about it more as the days become weeks and so forth, but just know I am the happiest I've been in a long time.
What's presented in this episode is my intro to Speed Racer on 3/25/2022 at the IU Cinema. It was an emotional and overwhelming event in the best possible way.
I love doing the podcast and look forward to doing as myself in the future.
With love,
Aja
NOTES:
The Audre Lorde book I'm referencing is called Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The YouTube video I reference about coming out can be found here:
https://youtu.be/AITRzvm0Xtg
Video of the introduction can be found here:
https://youtu.be/XLOGgQvtFps
And just because I'm proud of it, you can find my Speed Racer essay here:
https://blogs.iu.edu/aplaceforfilm/2022/03/21/speed-racer-and-the-assault-on-aesthetics-of-the-20th-century/
On this very special 69th episode of A Place For Film, I finally had the immense pleasure of sitting down with much wanted and long awaited guest Margot Stacy, the lovely and effusive mind behind the now retired "tees-en-scène" apparel shop (which we did an entire farewell episode for: here) but also the very active and enthralling @mise_en_scene page on Instagram. She joins me for an hour long conversation on Lily and Lana Wachowski's magnum opus Speed Racer. We get into the nitty gritty of how Speed Racer serves as a major turning point not just in the Wachowski's career but in film history as a whole. We get into topics such as kinetics, aesthetic assault/death, postmodernism, transness as it relates to modes of creation and the joys of spectacle.
If you want to here more thoughts on the "aesthetic assault" present in Speed Racer please pop over to the IU Cinema Blog and read my piece on Speed Racer, here:
https://blogs.iu.edu/aplaceforfilm/2022/03/21/speed-racer-and-the-assault-on-aesthetics-of-the-20th-century/
Speed Racer will screen this Friday, March 25th at 7pm as apart of the IU Cinema's "Staff Selects" series. Please visit the IU Cinema website for more details and to purchase your tickets for what I promise will be a very special evening:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2022-spring-program-friday-march-25-700pm
You can find Margot's Instagram account, @mise_en_scene, were she finds the beauty and spectacle in fashion, arthouse/populist cinema, and performers, here:
https://www.instagram.com/misc_en_scene/
On this weeks episode of A Place For Film: I'm sick! Which means its a low energy low effort affair, so I decided to talk off the cuff about Steven Spielberg's sci-fi cannon of film in anticipation of the IU Cinema's screening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on 3/29. Because my energy is so low I decided to throw my introduction to West Side Story (2021) into the mix for those who still haven't caught it on HBOMAX or want a little bit more context after their first of hopefully many viewings of that masterpiece.
Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Criterion, Kino Lorber, 88 Films US and Fun City Editions
On this months PMISDIJSF, Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, 88 Film US, and Fun City Editions join us with some stellar titles. Millers Crossing, 12 Angry Men (1997), Man on The Moon, The Flag of Iron, Legendary Weapons of the Shaolin, Bilitis and my "pick of the month" Morvern Callar all get the spotlight in a month full of both physicality and melancholy.
On this 66th episode of A Place For Film (and disappointingly NOT the 69th episode) SECS Fest co-founder and programmer David Church was nice enough to come on last minute and give me the in and outs and ins and outs (i'm so sorry) as well as history of SECS Fest and how it came to end up in the Midwest. I also lose my mind on microphone when I find out that David Church was also responsible for the beloved Café Flesh screening at the IU Cinema many moons ago. It's a stimulating conversation about the challenges and learned lessons of running a sex positive feminist and queer focused film festival.
Find more information on SECS Fest Midwest here:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/series/secs-fest-midwest
and if you want more time with David Church and his words on SECS Fest Midwest, please visit the IU Cinema blog here:
https://blogs.iu.edu/aplaceforfilm/2022/02/24/heat-and-heart-coming-to-secs-fest-midwest/
On this weeks episode, I had the opportunity to talk to Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner, composer and saxophonist Daniel Whitworth to discuss his background in cinema and composition and the process of working on an undertaking the demanding. He also talks about some of his musical influences including the works of contemporary classical composers. If you enjoy the interview then please join us on February 26th at 7PM for the world debut of Daniel's score for the silent film directed by Oscar Apfel, Phil-for-Short.
Interview begins at 07:27
You can find more of Daniel's work on his website here:
https://www.danielwhitworthmusic.com/
You can find out more information for Phil-for-Short and the Jon Vickers Scoring Award, here:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2022-spring-program-saturday-february-26-700pm
and here:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/series/jon-vickers-scoring-award
On this weeks episode, David is flying solo and low-key so they can casually talk about the 2022 Oscar nominations and what they feel are some good calls and glaring oversights (please ignore that they forgot to bring up Titane at all during the snubs sections but c'mon France was never submitting that for their International contender). And after weeks of talking about the series, David gives their thoughts on Jackass Forever and why this series keeps enduring and feels so sweet and cathartic.
If you are interested in attending Cicada Cinema's screening of Sister Street Fighter on 2/17, please checkout their website for tickets and information:
Cicadacinema.com
Full Transparency: All blu-rays reviewed were provided by Criterion, Kino Lorber, Cohen Film Collection, Imprint Films, and Arrow Video.
On this weeks episode of Physical Media Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny, we have some excellent titles to kick off 2022. Imprint Films brings us a thrilling revenge film starring Kirk Douglas titled Last Train From Gun Hill, and two horror adjacent titles with the folk infused Tam Lin directed by Roddy McDowall and Sam Raimi's gothic "American Giallo", The Gift. Cohen Film Collection puts out the original uncut version of the British Rock n' Roll musical Expresso Bongo (where you will believe a mans stage name can in fact just be "Bongo Herbert"), while Kino Lorber doubles up on gentle heist movies that proves maybe there is honor among thieves with Gambit (starring My-Ko-Kane and Shirley MacLaine) and Bill Forsyth and John Sayles Breaking In.
Arrow Video serves with two kind of highly anticipated titles. Mario Bava's final effort Shock (a.k.a Beyond The Door II) gets a deluxe treatment that far and away better than the Anchor Bay double feature DVD from a million years ago, and Yasuzo Masumura's Red Angel is here to make you ponder than nature of grace and healing. Finally, Criterion Collection puts out now TWO TIME Oscar nominated director Jane Campion's signature film, The Piano to help us ponder just how hot (and tender) Harvey Keitel can be...IN 4K!
It's a great way to kick off the year and I as always, I hope you find something that sings to you and can find its way on to your shelf.
On this weeks episode of the IU Cinema podcast, I very briefly outline the work and legacy of Senegalese filmmaker and pioneer, Paulin Vieyra as well as follow-up with Alicia and Brittany about their virtual Sundance experience and what hidden and not so hidden gems they found at this years festival. A treat of an episode for those who want a sneak preview of all the film possibly coming to the cinema in the next few semesters!
Material and worlds for the Paulin Vieyra section of the podcast was DIRECTLY pulled from the two following resources:
https://blackfilmcenterarchive.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/paulin-vieyra-pioneer-of-african-cinemas-filmmaker-producer-historian/
https://news.iu.edu/stories/2021/07/iub/releases/27-black-film-center-archive-acquires-paulin-vieyra-papers.html
If you would like to find out how to view and participate with the IU Cinema's Paulin Vierya program, you can find more information here:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/series/paulin-vieyra-pioneer-of-african-cinemas-filmmaker-producer-and-historian
Prepared to get Sirk'd up for this weeks episode of A Place For Film. Joining David once is again is his eternal enemy and elegant editor Michaela Owens to give everyone a little primer on the lush and lively world of melodrama director Douglas Sirk in anticipation of the IU Cinema's "5x Douglas Sirk: Magnificently Obsessed" series. If you don't know the work, this is a good place to start so you know what to expect going in, especially if you're drawn towards his incredible output in the 1950's.
In short, tune and listen if you want Michaela and David to teach you how to Doug(las)
For more information about the IU Cinema's Sirk series and they're "5x" series in general, please visit the cinema's website here:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/series/5x-series
On this weeks A Place For Film, Professor Joan Hawkins joins me once again. We discuss the origins of the "Underground Film" series in Bloomington as well has this history of Underground film and upcoming screenings at the IU Cinema this semester featuring exciting pieces of Underground celluloid. Joan is a wellspring of information and knowledge so I hope you enjoy the conversation.
You can find more information about upcoming Ryder Film Series screenings, here:
https://www.theryder.com/
You can read Jesse Pasternack's recent write up about the film Possession, here:
https://blogs.iu.edu/aplaceforfilm/2022/01/20/the-enduring-mysteries-of-possession-1981/
More information about past and present screenings in the Underground Film Series can be found at the IU Cinemas website, here:
https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/series/underground-film-series