Matt, Andrea and Oscar discuss episode two of Adam Curtis’ new series ‘I Can’t Get You Out of my Head’.

We talk about the limits of the BBC archive, and the history of the Black Panthers that Curtis never quite gets into.

Links to the stuff we mention in this episode are below.

Muub Tube with Ralph Pritchard and Owen - https://muubtube.podbean.com/

Community Development as Micropolitics by Akwugo Emejulu (publisher’s site) - https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-as-micropolitics

Errol Morris and Adam Curtis conversation (full text) - https://www.errolmorris.com/content/interview/believer0406.html

Matt is joined by Ross, Andrea and her son Oscar to discuss the first episode of Adam Curtis’s new TV series ‘Can’t Get You Out of my Head’. We talk about post truth, Curtis’s claim that what he does is journalism, and the affective or emotional tone of Curtis’s films.

Below is a list of links to things mentioned in the episode

Tribune Article about Adam Curtis - https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/02/in-defence-of-adam-curtis

New Yorker interview with Curtis - https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/adam-curtis-explains-it-all

NXIVM documentary ‘The Vow’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vow_(TV_series)

The Civil Contract of Photography by Ariella Azoulay - https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781890951894/the-civil-contract-of-photography

Lutz Dammbeck - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198892/

Matt speaks to Ralph Pritchard, artist filmmaker, about his ‘Films from the Quar’ series, including his latest films Approval, Flinching and Crushing.

We talk about his work, OCD and uncertainty. And I tell Ralph about a dream I had.

You can watch Approval, Flinching and Crushing at this link - https://ralphpritchard.co.uk/Quarantine-films-S2-only - and see more of Ralph’s work at his website - https://ralphpritchard.co.uk/

Matt, Hamish and Sophie have a catch up about lockdown, money, art and fatbergs.

In March and April 2020 Hamish MacPherson used social media to ask, “Are you having sexual or sensual intimacy with people who are distant from you during the COVID-19 lockdowns?” People replied anonymously and Hamish asked friends and acquaintances to record themselves reading these texts out. Then Matt turned them into this podcast. It contains some sexual references.

Words: anonymous. Voices: Adam Wilson Holmes, AF, Angela Andrew, Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot, Beth Bramich, Carolin Meyer, Conor James, Elizabeth Rochester, Emilia Robinson, Francisco Zhan, Genevieve Costello, Gillie Kleiman, Gregory Hari, GS, Hannah Bellil, HMTIDT4U, Joshua Jayraj, Maria Sideri, May, Michael Whitby, Molly Chapman, Molly Martian, Nina Sever, Paul Hughes, Peter Jacobs, Ralph Pritchard, Sean Alayo, Tamara Tomic-Vajagic.

Music/editing: Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

You can buy a book of the texts with original photographs from stilllifemag.org with profits going to Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement and Covid-19 Prisoner Emergency Fund.

Matt speaks to the writer Lars Iyer about his latest book, Nietzsche and the Burbs. They also talk about method, music and what time Lars wakes up in the morning.

Matt speaks to the music producer M.J Harding about bangers, intensity, addiction, shame and the voice between speaking and singing.

Matt speaks to the artist Joey Holder about conspiracies, getting caught in the crossfire of artworld controversy, and the time a clownfish squared up to her.

Matt speaks to the artist Richard Whitby about conspiracies, Virginia Woolf and the post-cinematic, and his newest film ‘The Lost Ones’.

Matt talks to the artist Kate Liston about affects, stances, performance and CrossFit.