This Indigo Girls biopic explores their musical career in the face of sexism and homophobia, but also their evolution as activists focusing on the deepest relational contexts to the earth, Indigenous communities, and the LGTBQIA+ community. We break down Alexandria Bombach's IT'S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL in this episode.

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A psychological investigation of isolation from the perspective of NASA scientists studying long-range space missions. We break down THE LONGEST GOODBYE by Ido Mizrahy through the lens of 12th House of exile, and how social connections tether us when we're a long, long way from home, and the sacrifices made in pursuit of scientific knowledge.

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This biopic documents the systematic erasure of Little Richard's contributions to Rock 'n Roll while exploring the internal tension between religion and his queer identity. We break down LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING by Lisa Cortés in this episode.

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A wild journey investigating what happened to a NYC video store archive that blends film essay, non-fiction, & other genres. We break down experimental doc KIM'S VIDEO by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin while reflecting on collective memory and the ethics of bootlegging vs. the film knowledge of a well-curated archive.

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An experimental film that asks us to listen in a new way, d/Deaf director Alison O’Daniel uses captions as a third narrative space. We break down THE TUBA THIEVES in this episode where making sense of the film is the film.

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Activists work to inform people about emergency contraception options for self-managed abortions, which drastically changes in the wake of the revocation of Roe v. Wade. We discuss the many contextual dimensions of the documentary PLAN C by Tracy Droz Tragos, which follows grassroots activists over the course of the pandemic who are on the frontlines of expanding access to medication abortion.

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Making a podcast wasn't on my bingo card a month ago, but Kent has a way of making things happen. He had a virtual press pass for Sundance this year and invited me to watch as many of the documentaries with him as I wanted to. He intended to watch all forty-three of the documentaries on the docket and I had no reason to doubt him, as he's obsessive once he gets going. Honestly, at the start I didn't think I would watch very many with him, maybe one or two a day at most.

So I started out rather resistant to the experiment, pushing back firmly on Kent's puppy-dog excitement. Undeterred he persisted, every morning asking, "What do you want to watch today?" as he pulled up his spreadsheet of all the movies, which days they were available, who made them, and a link to the offering on the Sundance website. Reader, the man is impossible. But also, he was right. Between his enthusiasm and the winning power of the films unspooling before me I was hooked by the second day. By the third day I was watching four to five with him. By the end of the week I'd watched 29. He, of course completed them all and is still lamenting about the ones I missed. (List of the ones that got away at the end).

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