Podcast Episodes

DIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Apocalypto" (2005, Dir: Mel Gibson)

Hey sorry the episode is late, we recorded like three episodes this week and Matt didn't have time to edit. Anyway while we were scrambing to figure out something to watch for weird scheduling reason…

Published on 4 months ago

DIGITAL FRONTIERS: 'The Long Take'

Corbin and Ellis talk about the new proliferation of tracking takes at the dawn of digital cinema, focusing in particular on "Children of Men,' Alfonso Cauron's movie about the whole world losing the…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Digital Frontiers, Episode Seven: "Crank" (2006, Dir: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor)

Statham. Handheld cameras. Offensive stuff. Insane continuity. Statham. Violence. Statham. Statham. Statham. Statham. It's Crank, baby. 

Matt reccomends this article. Corbin reccomends this article…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Digital Frontiers, Episode Seven: "Miami Vice" (2006, Dir Michael Mann) (w/ Eric Marsh)

ERIC MARSH joins Matt and Corbin to talk about MIAMI VICE, Michael Mann's digital fantasia/globalization fable/index of excruciatingly hot one liners. Topics include: globalization as topic and as ae…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Digital Frontiers Seven: "STILL LIFE" (2006, Dir: Jia Zhangke) (w/ Tyler Theus)

Corbin and Matt are joined by TYLER THEUS, a famous academic, to discuss "Still Life," a movie by a friend of the program who I have never said anything bad about, Jia Zhangke. Topics include: slow c…

Published on 5 months ago

DIGITAL FRONTIERS, EPISODE SIX: "Cars" (2003, Dir: John Lasseter)

PIXAR TIME BABY! Ellis and Corbin talk about 'Cars,' a movie about a civilization of Cars. Why are the Cars alive? What build the world they live in? How do they reproduce? Then, after they talk abou…

Published on 5 months ago

DIGITAL FRONTIERS EPISODE FIVE: What is Digital Cinema?

Corbin and Matt talk about 'WHAT IS DIGITAL CINEMA,' a 1995 essay by Lev Manovich concerned the difference between filmic cinema of the 20th Century, and the emerging technological and artistic form …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

DIGITAL FRONTIERS EPISODE FOUR: "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams" (2002, Dir: Robert Rodriguez)

Huh? Why? Good question: it's because of Rodriguez's approach to economical filmmaking, which would come to whoopsiedoodle dominate everything uh oh! We get into it, as well as one or two other topic…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

DIGITAL FRONTIERS, EPISODE 3: '28 Days Later" (2002, Dir: Danny Boyle)

28 Days Later is a "Zombie" movie made with a TV Camera that you watch on a big screen. It's really great! We talk about the practical and impractical applications of digital technology, materiality …

Published on 6 months ago

DIGITAL FRONTIERS, EPISODE TWO: 'Star Wars, Episode Two: Attack of the Clones' (2002, Dir: George Lucas

Bro we're so back. We've never been more back. Because two white guys got in a room and talked about STAR WARS EPISODE TWO: ATTACK OF THE CLONES, which is, in addition to being one of the most revile…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago