Projections Podcast

For the penultimate episode in our Women in Horror series, Zoe from Zobo With A Shotgun podcast joins us to talk extreme horror. We discuss Pascal Laugier’s infamous Martyrs (2008) and the Soska sisters’ American Mary (2012) stopping along the way to explore the depiction of trauma on screen, revenge and rejecting ‘respectable’ society. Don’t be scared… you’re safe with us.

Sarah and Mary continue their exploration of women in horror with an in depth look at two female investigators; the women of Thesis (1996) and The Ring (2002). They touch on the myth of the snuff film, the real life evils of the golden age of television and why Gore Verbinsky’s sequel is so much better than the original.

Mary and Sarah get past their fear of having children to explore what’s really so scary about birth in this week’s ‘women in horror’ films - new French extremity film Inside or À l'intérieur (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s Mother (2017). We discuss the selfishness of creativity, the killing of one’s former self and the horror of abjection. Stick around, you’re safe with us.

Mary and Sarah discuss the horrifying aspects of romantic relationships in the second episode of the Women in Horror series. They look at Claire Denis’ erotic horror Trouble Every Day (2001) and Ben Young’s debut, semi-based on a true crime story, Hounds of Love (2016). Don’t be scared, you’re safe with us!

Welcome to our new series; Women in Horror! We’re starting off on the theme of perfection, discussing trauma, exploitation and the pain of transformation in Starry Eyes (2014) by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer and Netflix’s The Perfection (2019) - Richard Shepard.

While you wait for our Women in Horror series (starting next Wednesday 30th October) to begin, listen to our take on the year’s most divisive film, Todd Phillips’ Joker (2019), starring Joaquin Phoenix.

For our final episode in the Fashion Films series, Mary and Sarah discuss the controversial documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2016) and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper (2016). We’re wrapping up our exploration of fashion and film with a look at Jung’s theory of the shadow, public personas, fakes, counterfeits, truth and lies. And a bit of astrology too.

Sarah and Mary welcome special guest artist, gallerist, PHD scholar and former make-up artist Cathy Lomax to talk about make-up, style and surface in Anna Biller’s extraordinary 2016 film The Love Witch. The three discuss their favourite make-up moments in film, styles of female power and Lomax’s film diaries.

This week Mary and Sarah delve further into the subject of fashion and fetish with two films about shopping and its connection to control; Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and Pretty Woman (1990) directed by Gary Marshall.

Sarah and Mary discuss fetishism, fashion and wigs in Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion (1984) and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986).