Mind Theater

Mind Theater

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Mind Theater episodes

  • What Remains of Edith Finch: Life is Strange (and Brief)
    Exploring loose relationships to death,  generational curses, and the strange briefness of life in the 2017 narrative adventure game What Remains of Edith Finch  developed by Giant Sparrow.

    TW: This episode talks about death and briefly mentions suicide

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    - Rainday Textile
    - Slimheart (Wash Only)
    - Memeti

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    8 min
  • Little Women: Autonomy and Authorship
    Exploring the March sisters' search for autonomy and authorship in the world of Greta Gerwig's  Little Women (2019).

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    - Silver Lanyard
    - Silver Lanyard (Clarinet Leader)
    - Pull Beyond Pull
    - Trivial Call

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    16 min
  • Inside Llewyn Davis: The Ears of Strangers
    Exploring tragedy, vagabonds, and the artistic expression of pain in The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis.

    Trigger Warning: Mention of suicide, some cursing in clips

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    - Our Only Lark (Alternate Montuno Melody)
    - Cold Summers
    - Our Only Lark (Alternate Montuno Slow Spread)

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    14 min
  • Physical: The Body Commodity
    Exploring the world of 80s aerobics, binge eating, and the body as a commodity in Annie Weisman's Apple TV+ show Physical.

    *Trigger Warning*: Episode covers topics of binge eating

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    - Neon Drip
    - Krok
    - Alum Drum Solo
    - Vela Vela
    - Arlan Vale
    - Copley Beat
    - So Go We

    Synthwave Outro Song

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    13 min
  • Thelma: Caged Bird
    Exploring religious guilt, loneliness, and repressed generational trauma in Joachim Trier's 2017 film Thelma.

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    - Qi
    - Vela Vela
    - Frank and Poet
    - Cold Summer 
    - Mineral Still

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    9 min
  • The Green Knight: The Laws of Chivalry
    Exploring faith, the futility of mortal life, and the contradictory laws of chivalry in David Lowery's A24 film The Green Knight.

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    - Tolls Folly
    - Awaiting an Arrival
    - Passing Station 7
    - Swell
    - Respite

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    14 min
  • The North Water: Do No Harm

    Exploring animalism, healing, and our human connection to nature in The North Water.

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    - Douglass Stairs
    - McKrary
    - Arlan Vale
    - Passing Station 7

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    13 min
  • Whiplash: Suffer to Succeed

    Exploring abuse in mentor mentee relationships, the tiring pursuit of perfection, and the apparent need to suffer in order to succeed in Damien Chazelle's 2014 film Whiplash.

    **Content Warning**:
    Cursing in some clips.  Mentions verbal, physical, and emotional abuse.

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    - Calgary Sweeps
    - Chai Belltini
    - Laisse Valse
    - Dearborn

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    12 min
  • The Long Hallway: The Eternal Applause

    *Content Warning*: Mentions Self-Harm

    Exploring societal beauty standards, clarity from pain, and intellectual courage in an episode of the audio drama podcast The Long Hallway titled (This is My Cue) to Demateralize.

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    - Gra Landsby
    - Rainday Textile
    - Four Count
    - Our Lament
    - Skrewsbury

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    11 min
  • Pickpocket: The Tragic Thief

    Exploring the art of pickpocketing, the subtleties of subterfuge, and the tragedy of the thief in Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959).

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions
    -     Cran Ras
    - Lowball
    - Chaunce Libertine
    - Intermezzo

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    8 min

About Mind Theater

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Archive of Mind Theater audio essays on television, film, and the arts, revealing what makes them so compelling. Presented by Ayo Akingbade. New video essays on YouTube.

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