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Ariel sits down with director Elle Callahan to discuss the premiere of her new film, Witch Hunt, that imagines a world where witchcraft is controlled by the federal government. The film and the conversation focus on the messaging of misogyny and the treatment of marginalized groups in this supernatural horror film.

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Ariel sits down with documentary filmmaker Garrett Zevgetis and healer-activist Vivian Anderson, founder of Every Black Girl, to discuss the premiere of Spring Valley at SXSW.  The film is an exploration of the full context of one viral video, demonstrating the way that one small clip can generate a flurry of media activity without any acknowledgement of the larger patchwork of history and trauma behind it.

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Ariel and director Wes Hurley sit down to discuss his new autobiographical film, Potato Dreams of America, a film that recreates the harsh realities of life in post-USSR Russia, and the way the immigrant narrative plays out in American schools, with teachers who value diversity over individuality. A conversation and a film about the exploration and the claiming of identity as your own.

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This timely film set in Korea explores a young woman’s identity and sense of self within her family relationships. Korean-American director Hannah Bang comes by to talk about the female gaze, justifiable anxieties, and the claustrophobia within familial relationships.

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Ariel sits down with Director Alex Noyer to discuss his new film, Sound of Violence, that just premiered at SXSW. They discuss disability representation, and the ultimately destructive nature of creativity.

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Ariel sits down with director Mari Walker and actresses Pooya Mohseni and Lynn Chen to discuss their film, See You Then, a drama about a pair of women catching up over drinks. The film is real, and raw, as an exploration of what it means to affirm your gender, and what it truly means to be a woman.

 

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In this episode, Ariel sits down with Alba Sotorra Clua to discuss her powerful documentary, The Return: Life After ISIS. Revenge, justice, and forgiveness are the topics of the day, as the formerly enslaved women of ISIS apply to return home countries, and the world considers their fate, and that of their children.

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Ariel sits down with Paola Calvo and Patrick Jasim to discuss their film, Luchadoras, premiering at SXSW this week. Their film focuses on female fighters in Ciudad Juarez, the women who fight in the lucha libre arena. They discuss the empowering image of the luchadora as a masked superhero in the ring in a place where violence against women and femicide is a very real threat.

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The beginning of a new series, celebrating creepy content on Sunday nights. Join us for these interviews that are co-productions of Ride the Omnibus and Ghouls Magazine. 

In this inaugural episode, Ariel talks with Theo Rhys and Joss Holden-Rhea about their new horror musical, premiering at SXSW this week. The film centers on a taxidermist looking for a human specimen, and the man, afraid enough of aging to volunteer. The film will be available to stream online beginning on March 25th. 

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Director Julian Radlmeier stops by to discuss Bloodsuckers, his comedic take on Marx's Das Kapital, but filtered through Soviet cinema and set in the 1920's with vampires. It's a unique kind of film that directly confronts the evils of capitalism, the trappings of class, and the propaganda that sustains it all.

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