Projections Podcast

Sarah and Mary dive into the murky waters of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012) and Alex Gibney's Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) to explore brainwashing, Lacan’s four discourses and families in the fourth episode of our cults on film series.

In episode 3 of our Cults on Film series, Mary and Sarah discover that David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) and Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) are essentially the same film, and discuss Freudian ideas of identification and lack.

Our Cults on Film series is back. Sarah and Mary talk conspiracy, lack and possession in Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) and Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's The Endless (2017), coming to the conclusion that conspiratorial thinking reigns when trauma is seen as not being enough.

Mary and Sarah discuss their top five films from the London Film Festival, Natalie Erika James' Relic, Josephine Decker's Shirley, Natalia Meta's The Intruder, Brandon Cronenberg's Possessor and Francis Lee's Ammonite.

Welcome to Series 5: Cults on Film! Mary and Sarah begin with a discussion of faith, infantilism and creative purpose in Danny Boyle's The Beach (2000) and Will Allen's Holy Hell (2016). Join us!

We warmed up for our upcoming series on cults by discussing psychoanalysis, the occult and Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018) with special guest Vanessa Sinclair. Vanessa Sinclair is a practicing psychoanalyst, writer, podcaster, and collage artist. Together we discussed the connections between the practices of art, magic and psychoanalysis, grief and rogue therapists on film.

Wrapping up our ‘Work and Money’ series, Mary and Sarah discuss whether we can liberate ourselves from the tyranny of neoliberal oppression, as tested in Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Sam Mendes’ American Beauty (1999).

In the penultimate episode of our Work and Money series, Mary and Sarah discuss the absence of humanity in the post-digital economy, as exemplified by Daniel Goldhaber and Issa Mazzei’s Cam (2018) and Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You (2019).

This week on our Work and Money series, Mary and Sarah talk liminal spaces and the uncanny in the homes of Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982) and Boots Reiley's Sorry to Bother You (2018).

Mary and Sarah return to the exploration of work and money with a look at the concept of ‘austerity’ and its effects in two unsettling films; Craig Zobel’s Compliance (2012) and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013).