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Hello and welcome to our first episode of the second season of Let’s Talk Art! 

Because today, the 28th of October, it is international animation day and Halloween is just around the corner, this week’s episode is about Halloween themed animations. We are joined by Ali Shobeiri, a photography and cinema art professor at Leiden University, with whom we’ll discuss various animations, starting with an in-depth discussion of Phantom Limb. Stay tuned for some fun and spooky Halloween film recommendations to watch for yourself this weekend at the end of the episode! So, get cozy, grab a cup of hot chocolate and come join us in today’s episode!

Special thanks to dr. Ali Shobeiri for joining us on the podcast for our first episode!

Articles/works/literature used for and mentioned in the episode:

• “Phantom Limb” an animation by Alex Grigg 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcnQ-qXrTIc

• “Negative Space” an animation by Tiny Inventions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI2lsdXJQ40 
• Ali Shobeiri, “Antumbral Memory: A Psychosomatic Phenomenon in Phantom Limb”, in Animation and Memory, edited by Maarten van Gageldonk, László Munteán and Ali Shobeiri, 2020
• The film “The Wolf House” (2018)
• The film “It Follows” (2014)
• The short-film “Street of Crocodiles” (1986)
• The short-film “Cat Soup” (Nekojiru-so) (2001)
• The movie “Coraline” (2009)
• The movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993)
• The animated horror anthology “Junji Ito Collection” (2018)
• “The Cat Piano” an animation by The People's Republic of Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4RBmU-PIo 

• The animation series “Over the Garden Wall” (2014)
• The movie “Pan’s Labyrinth” (El laberinto del fauno) (2006)

Content warnings:

• Trauma
• Amputation
• Body Horror
• Grief
• Oikophobia
• Phobias
• War
• Torture
• Animal abuse
• Mentions of: Death