Presenting The Juniors: An Imagine Fantastic Film Festival Podcast which will dive into the world of fantastic media, behind the scenes titbits and controversial film opinions. Hosted by the junior programmers, Seth Verhaart (⁠⁠⁠@sethverhaart⁠⁠⁠) & Elina Meinerte (⁠⁠⁠@eliina.mein⁠⁠⁠). During this episode we talk about the Horror subgenre of Found Footage and its origins, tropes and subgenres of found footage, some of the essential watches, like The Blair Witch Project, [REC] and Creep.  

Timestamps: 

0:00 - Intro 

0:45 - What Did We Watch Recently? 

9:50 – The Origins of Found Footage: Cannibal Holocaust, The Blair Witch Project & Orson Welles 

14:40 - The Difference Between Found Footage & Mockumentaries 

18:10 – Cloverfield 

19:45 – The Screen Recording Subgenre: Unfriended, Host & Spree 

26:22 – The Ghost Hunter Subgenre: Grave Encounters, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum & Hell House LLC 

34:26 - [REC] & the Motivation to Keep Filming 

Films Mentioned: 

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) by Ruggero Deodato 

The Blair Witch Project (1999) by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez 

The Other Side of the Wind (2018) by Orson Welles 

This Is Spinal Tap (1984) by Rob Reiner 

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) by Jemaine Clement & Taika Watiti 

Megan is Missing (2011) by Michael Goi 

Cloverfield (2008) by Matt Reeves 

Unfriended (2014) by Levan Gabriadze 

Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) by Stephen Susco 

Host (2020) by Rob Savage 

Mayhem (2017) by Joe Lynch 

Spree (2020) by Eugene Kotlyarenko 

Grave Encounters (2011) by Stuart Ortiz & Colin Minihan 

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) by Jung Bum-shik 

Hell House LLC (2015) by Stephen Cognetti 

[REC] (2007) by Pasco Plaza 

As Above, So Below (2014) by John Erick Dowdie 

Creep (2014) by Patrick Brice 

Mentioned in 'What Did We Watch Recently': 

Mamma Mia! (2008) by Phyllida Lloyd 

Shaun of the Dead (2004) by Edgar Wright 

There Are Monsters (2013) by Jay Dahl 

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Credits: 

Hosts: Seth Verhaart & Elina Meinerte 

Editor: Seth Verhaart 

Producer: Seth Verhaart 

Executive Producer: Rabia Sitabi Stigter 

Artwork: Anna Kallos 

Music: Benjamin De Murashkin - Can You Imagine (The Juniors Theme) 

Presenting The Juniors: An Imagine Fantastic Film Festival Podcast which will dive into the world of fantastic media, behind the scenes titbits and controversial film opinions. Hosted by the junior programmers, Seth Verhaart (⁠⁠@sethverhaart⁠⁠) & Elina Meinerte (⁠⁠@eliina.mein⁠⁠). During this episode we talk about the Alien series, M. Night Shyamalan and even more alien horror.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:43 - What Did We Watch Recently?

7:10 - Alien vs. The Thing

18:40 - Aliens

26:00 - Signs (& M. Night Shyamalan)

39:12 - Event Horizon

45:29 - AVP: Alien vs. Predator (& Aliens vs. Predator Requiem)

Films Mentioned:

Alien (1979) by Ridley Scott

The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter

Aliens (1986) by James Cameron

Signs (2002) by M. Night Shyamalan

Unbreakable (2000) by M. Night Shyamalan

The Sixth Sense (1999) by M. Night Shyamalan

Split (2016) by M. Night Shyamalan

Glass (2019) by M. Night Shyamalan

The Visit (2015) by M. Night Shyamalan

The Village (2004) by M. Night Shyamalan

Creepshow (1982) by George A. Romero

Event Horizon (1997) by Paul W. S. Anderson

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) by Paul W. S. Anderson

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) by Colin & Greg Strause

Mentioned in 'What Did We Watch Recently':

Mamma Mia! (2008) by Phyllida Lloyd

Dancing With the Birds (2019) by Hugh Cordy

Motel Destino (2024) by Karim Äinouz

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Credits:

Hosts: Seth Verhaart & Elina Meinerte

Editor: Seth Verhaart

Producer: Seth Verhaart

Executive Producer: Rabia Sitabi Stigter

Artwork: Anna Kallos

Music: Benjamin De Murashkin - Can You Imagine (The Juniors Theme)

Presenting The Juniors: An Imagine Fantastic Film Festival Podcast which will dive into the world of fantastic media, behind the scenes titbits and controversial film opinions. Hosted by the junior programmers, Seth Verhaart (⁠@sethverhaart⁠) & Elina Meinerte (⁠@eliina.mein⁠). During this episode we talk about Club Imagine June, the interesting dilemma of hyperfixations and our disagreements on both I Saw the Devil and Final Destination.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:31 - Club Imagine

12:20 - Hyperfixations

28:05 - What Did We Watch Recently?

53:55 - Outro

Films Mentioned:

- Plein Soleil (Purple Moon, 1960) by René Clément

- Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature (2024) by Léo Favier

- Harvest (2024) by Athina Rachel Tsangari

- Kind (2025) by Jan Verdijk

- Bring Her Back (2025) by Michael & Danny Philippou

- U Are the Universe (2024) by Pavlo Ostrikov

- Clown in a Cornfield (2025) by Eli Craig

Mentioned in "What Did We Watch Recently":

- Jurrasic World Rebirth (2025) by Gareth Edwards

- Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) by Jim Jarmusch

- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) by Jim Jarmusch

- I Saw the Devil (2010) by Kim Jee-woon

- Final Destination (2000) by James Wong

TV-Series Mentioned:

- Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

- Stranger Things (2016-2025)

- Steins;Gate (2011)

- Steins;Gate 0 (2018)

Books Mentioned:

- Clown in a Cornfield (2020) by Adam Cesare

- A Game of Thrones (1996) by George R.R. Martin

Video Games Mentioned:

- Steins;Gate (2009)

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Credits:

Hosts: Seth Verhaart & Elina Meinerte

Editor: Seth Verhaart

Producer: Seth Verhaart

Executive Producer: Rabia Sitabi Stigter

Artwork: Anna Kallos

Music: Benjamin De Murashkin - Can You Imagine (The Juniors Theme)

THE JUNIORS IS COMING 16 JULY 2025!

Presenting The Juniors: An Imagine Fantastic Film Festival Podcast which will dive into the world of fantastic media, behind the scenes titbits and controversial film opinions. Hosted by the junior programmers, Seth Verhaart (@sethverhaart) & Elina Meinerte (@eliina.mein).

The first recording of the podcast went as well as you could expect, disastrous. To keep you on your toes until the first episode releases July 16th, we decided to lift the veil a little into our recording process.

Credits:

Hosts: Seth Verhaart & Elina Meinerte

Editor: Seth Verhaart

Producer: Seth Verhaart

Executive Producer: Rabia Sitabi Stigter

Music: Kevin McLeod - In The Hall of the Mountain King

In Re:Imagining 1984, Imagine Fantastic Film Festival goes beyond the dystopian diagnoses of George Orwell, inviting a wide array of voices to a speculative discussion about the viable alternatives for our futures. Over the span of two prerecorded episodes and one live public podcasting session during the festival, we try to escape the binary opposition between Utopias and Dystopias by closely following the the works featured at the festival. 

Credits Hosts: Kiko Morah, Stanislaw Liguzinski 

Guests: Merel Hogerheijde, Sammy Shefa Idris, Robin Noorda, Joep Gerrits

Producer: Inez de Coo 

Editor: Tom Ooms 

Music: TeknoAxe 

In Re:Imagining 1984, Imagine Fantastic Film Festival goes beyond the dystopian diagnoses of George Orwell, inviting a wide array of voices to a speculative discussion about the viable alternatives for our futures. Over the span of two prerecorded episodes and one live public podcasting session during the festival, we try to escape the binary opposition between Utopias and Dystopias by closely following the works featured at the festival. 

Credits 
Hosts: Kiko Morah, Stanislaw Liguzinski 

Guests: Peet Gelderblom, Christopher Noessel, Hugh Fisher

Producer: Inez de Coo 

Editor: Tom Ooms 

Music: TeknoAxe 

Special Thanks: Berend van Eerden, Mark Fonseca Rendeiro 

Interview Peet Gelderblom: 

Films referenced: 

Remaking Fear: Evolution of the Body Snatchers - Peet Gelderblom, 2018: 
https://vimeo.com/260659837 

Dystopia in Denial: The Future According to 1984 - Peet Gelderblom, 2024 

1984 - Michael Radford, 1984 

The Goonies - Richard Donner, 1985 

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Steven Spielberg, 1984 

Romancing the Stone - Robert Zemeckis, 1984 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Terry Gilliam, 1999 

Velvet Goldmine - Todd Haynes,1998 

The Matrix - Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 1999-2003 

Nausicaä, Valley of the Wind - Hayao Miyazaki, 1984 

Tomorrowland - Brad Bird, 2015 

The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan, 2008 

The Batman - Matt Reeves, 2022 

Se7en - David Fincher, 1995 

Minority Report - Steven Spielberg, 2002 

Pleasantville - Gary Ross, 1998 

Back to the Future Part II - Robert Zemeckis, 1998 

The Apprentice - Ali Abbasi, 2024 

Starship Troopers - Paul Verhoeven, 1997 

Total Recall - Paul Verhoeven, 1990 

Total Recall - Len Wiseman, 2012 

Showgirls - Paul Verhoeven, 1995 

Books referenced: 

1984 - George Orwell, 1948 

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, 1932 

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood, 1985 

The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971 

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973 

Series referenced: 

Batman, 1966-1968 

Interview Christopher Noessel, Hugh Fisher:  

Glossary: 

FUI = Fantasy/Fictional User Interface 

 
Films mentioned: 

Alien vs Predator, Paul W. S. Anderson, 2004 

Mission Impossible, Brian de Palma, 1996 

Blade, Stephen Norrington, 1998 

The Bourne Ultimatum, Paul Greengrass, 2007 

Cabin in the Woods, Drew Goddard, 2012 

Iron Man, Jon Favreau, 2008 

Blade Runner, Ridley Scott,1982 

Minority Report, Steven Spielberg, 2002 

eXistenZ, David Cronenberg, 1999 

Star Wars: A New Hope, George Lucas, 1977 

Sword Fish, Dominic Sena, 2001 

Johnny Mnemonic, Robert Longo, 1995 

2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968 

Her, Spike Jonze, 2013 

Iron Man 2, Jon Favreau, 2010 

Black Panther, Ryan Coogler, 2018 

Doctor Strange, Scott Derrickson, 2016 

My Favourite Martian, Donald Petrie, 1999 

Aladdin, Ron Clements, John Musker, 1992 

Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve, 2017 

The Terminator, James Cameron, 1984 

Warriors of Future, Yuen Fai Ng, 2022 

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, 2023 

Prometheus, Ridley Scott, 2012 

Alien, Ridley Scott, 1979 

Aliens, Ridley Scott, 1986 

Idiocracy, Mike Judge, 2006 

Dark Star, John Carpenter, 1974 

Tron, Steven Lisberger, 1982 

The Lord of the Rings, Ridley Scott, 2001-2003 

A Trip to the Moon, George Méliès, 1902 

Smoking Causes Coughing, Quentin Dupieux, 2022 

Books mentioned: 

Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction - Nathan Shedroff, Christopher Noessel, Rosenfeld Media, 2012 

Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984 

The Cuckoo’s Egg, Cliff Stoll, 1989 

The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman, 2013 

The Culture series, Iain M. Banks, 1987-2012 

Maneki Neko, Bruce Sterling, 1998 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, 1979-1984 

Series mentioned: 

Firefly, Josh Whedon, 2002-2003 

Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969 

Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker, 2011-2023 

The Boys, Eric Kripke, 2019-2024 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, John Lloyd, 1981 

In Re:Imagining 1984, Imagine Fantastic Film Festival goes beyond the dystopian diagnoses of George Orwell, inviting a wide array of voices to a speculative discussion about the viable alternatives for our futures. Over the span of two prerecorded episodes and one live public podcasting session during the festival, we try to escape the binary opposition between Utopias and Dystopias by closely following the works featured at the festival. 

Credits

Hosts: Kiko Morah, Stanislaw Liguzinski 

Guests: Simon Perry, Jessica Norledge 

Producer: Inez de Coo 

Editor: Tom Ooms 

Music: TeknoAxe 

Special Thanks: Berend van Eerden, Mark Fonseca Rendeiro

Books referenced: 

The Language of Dystopia - Jessica Norledge, Springer International Publishing, 2022 

1984 - George Orwell, 1948 

Utopia - Thomas More, 1516 

The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster, 1909 

The End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird, 2012 

Red Clocks - Leni Zumas, 2018 

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood, 1985 

Transformations of Language in Modern Dystopias - David W. Sisk, 1997 

VOX - Christina Dalcher, 2019 

The Giver - Lois Lowry, 1993 

Followers - Megan Angelo, 2020 

The Circle - Dave Eggers, 2013 

Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson, 1992 

Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban, 1980 

The Book of Dave - Will Self, 2006 

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, 1962
Reading Fictional Languages - Edited by Israel Noletto, Jessica Norledge, Peter Stockwell, Edinburgh University Press, 2023 

Native Tongue - Suzette Haden Elgin, 1984 

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, 1932 

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury, 1953 

V for Vendetta - Alan Moore, 1982 

Films referenced: 

1984 - Michael Radford, 1984 

The Circle - James Ponsoldt, 2017 

The Lord of the Rings - Peter Jackson, 2001-2003 

The Hunger Games - Gary Ross, 2012 

Fahrenheit 451 - François Truffaut, 1966 

The Matrix - Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 1999-2003 

Equilibrium - Kurt Wimmer, 2002 

Series referenced: 

The Walking Dead - 2010-2022 

The Handmaid’s Tale - 2016-2022 

The Last of Us - 2023-now 

Games referenced: 

The Last of Us - Naughty Dog, 2013 

Fahrenheit 451 - Telarium, 1985  

Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 2023 podcast series explores the 2023 festival theme - Fantastic Alchemy. The series consists of four episodes, which correspond with 4 elements of alchemy that we find especially relevant to us nowadays - Narrative, Identity, Technology, and Substance. In this episode, we explore the topic of SUBSTANCE focusing on the materials that the alchemical process feeds off, and in particular the substance of film itself. We are joined by César Velasco Broca is a Spanish experimental filmmaker known for his highly eccentric works that fuse alchemical symbols with magic, and Karel Doing an independent artist, filmmaker and researcher who created a unique method of developing film using plants and photochemical emulsion called “phytography”.

IMAGINE PROGRAMME  MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

- Phytography: The alchemy of plants and photographic emulsion workshop with Karel Doing | 29 October (LAB111 Kapel)

- Screening of the Cult Shorts Programme including: Alegrías Riojanas, dir. César Velasco Broca | 27 October (LAB111 2) & 29 October (LAB111 2) & 2 November (LAB111 2)

- The guided Tour of Alegrías Riojanas Exhibition hosted by César Velasco Broca | 29 October (LAB111 Downstairs)

- “The Magic of Alchemy” event at Allard Pierson Museum featuring the talk by Peter Forshaw, viewing of the alchemical texts from the collection, and including: Alegrías Riojanas, dir. César Velasco Broca | 22 October (Allard Pierson Museum)

- Screening of Vase De Noces + discussion with César Velasco Broca, dir. Thierry Zéno (Fantastic Alchemy: Substance) | 29 October (LAB111 2) & 31 October (LAB111 1)

Films

- Alegrías Riojanas (2023), dir. César Velasco Broca

- In Vivo (2021), dir. Karel Doing

- Dark Matter (2014), dir. Karel Doing

- Liquidator (2011), dir. Karel Doing

Books

- Jean Cayrol, Alain Resnais, Muriel, Edition du Seuil 1963

Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 2023 podcast series explores the 2023 festival theme - Fantastic Alchemy. The series consists of four episodes, which correspond with 4 elements of alchemy that we find especially relevant to us nowadays - Narrative, Identity, Technology, and Substance. In this episode, we explore the topic of TECHNOLOGY, which is perhaps one of the most tangible elements of alchemy for us today as it inspired many scientific innovations throughout centuries. We look specifically at films and VR works, which use technology to tame digital matter and channel it through the medium of storytelling to make emotionally resonant experiences. The episode features conversations with Norman Leto, a Polish filmmaker, and a digital alchemist in his own right, whose film Photon screens at Imagine, and a multidisciplinary artist Steye Hallema, whose latest VR piece Imaginary Friend is shown in the VR section of the festival.

IMAGINE PROGRAMME  MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

- Screening of Photon + Extended Introduction, dir. Norman Leto (Fantastic Alchemy: Technology) | 28 October (LAB111 2) & 2 November (LAB111 2)

- The VR Exhibition (Virtual Alchemy), featuring:

- The Cinematic Visions of VR programme (films dedicated to VR technology):

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

Films

- Photon (2017), dir. Norman Leto

- The Lawnmower Man (1992), dir. Brett Leonard

- Strange Days (1995), dir. Kathryn Bigelow

- Nirvana (1997), dir. Gabrielle Salvatores

- Brainstorm (1983), dir. Douglas Trumbull

VR Works

- The Imaginary Friend (2023), dir. Steye Hallema

- Wolves in the Walls (2019), dir. Pete Billington

Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 2023 podcast series explores the 2023 festival theme - Fantastic Alchemy. The series consists of four episodes, which correspond with 4 elements of alchemy that we find especially relevant to us nowadays - Narrative, Identity, Technology, and Substance. In this episode we explore the topic of IDENTITY. Contrary to modern science, in Alchemy there is no distinct separation between the the person performing the experiment and the object of the study. Both undergo the same process of transformation. To get a better sense of this process, and to also understand more about the founding principles of alchemy and its historical roots, we’re joined by Farânak Mirjalili, whose research falls at the intersection of Jungian psycho-spiritual alchemy and Spagyrics - the laboratory tradition of plant alchemy, and Corey Andrews, a historian and current PhD candidate at the center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam.

Hosted by Hugo Emmerzael and Stanislaw Liguzinski. Produced by Inez de Coo. Edited by Tom Ooms.

IMAGINE PROGRAMME  MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

- “The Magic of Alchemy” event at Allard Pierson Museum featuring the talk by Peter Forshaw, viewing of the alchemical texts from the collection, and a short film programme | 22 October (Allard Pierson Museum)

- Screening of Eureka, dir. Nicolas Roeg (Fantastic Alchemy: Identity) | 26 October (FilmHallen 2) & 1 November (LAB111 2)

- Phytography: The alchemy of plants and photographic emulsion workshop with Karel Doing | 29 October (LAB111 Kapel)

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

Books

- Carl Gustav Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Routledge 1980 (+ numerous other editions)

- Isaac Baulot, Mutus Liber, Inne Garden Press 2010 (+ numerous other editions since 1677)

- Mary Anne Atwood, A Suggestive Inquiry Into the Hermetic Mystery: With a Dissertation on the More Celebrated of the Alchemical Philosophers, Being an Attempt Towards the Recovery of the Ancient Experiment of Nature, Taylor & Francis Ltd 2015 (+ numerous other editions)

- Herbert Silberer, Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts, Dover Publications 1971

- Mike A. Zuber, Spiritual Alchemy: From Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood, Oxford University Press 2021

- J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings, Harper Collins 2014 (+ numerous other editions)

-M. E. Warlick, The Alchemical Feminine: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Alchemical Images, Fulgur Limited 2023

Films

- Eureka (1983), dir. Nicolas Roeg

- The Lion King (1994), dir. Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers