Ben was able to attend the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville, VA and saw 12 feature films and one short film collection. He recorded some onsite reactions and introductions to each film and we intercut those with our post-festival conversational Q&A. Red Rooms discussion will follow tomorrow and our regular programming will resume next Thursday with Bugonia!

Sound Credit: drumroll2.aif by ddohler -- https://freesound.org/s/34258/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Works Cited

• Resurrection (2025, Bi Gan)
• Kontinental '25 (2025, Radu Jude)
• The Eyes of Ghana (2025, Ben Proudfoot)
• SirÂt (2025, Oliver Laxe)
• The Plague (2025, Charlie Polinger)
• Ghost Elephants (2025, Werner Herzog)
• It Was Just an Accident (2025, Jafar Panahi)
• Arco (2025, Ugo Bienvenu)
• Train Dreams (2025, Clint Bentley)
• Late Shift (2025, Petra Volpe)
• The President's Cake (2025, Hasan Hadi)
• Zodiac Killer Project (2025, Charlie Shackleton)
• Zodiac Killer Project: A Wry Critique of the True Crime Genre (2025, David Ehrlich)
• In Totality (2025, Jesse Rudoy)
• How She Was (2024, Jeff Luppino-Esposito)
• Shallow (2025, Luca Huff)
• Conference of the Moths (2025, Samhita, Sunya)
• The Lonely Dog (2024, Jacob Seltzer)
• Leaving the Light (2025, Steven Krueger)
• Chinese Independent Filmmakers Look to Locarno Festival (2015, Edward Wong)

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Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel

Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa

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