WYRD_SIGNAL

Lucy joins the director Gabriel Gettman to discuss performance theory, Jungian psychology, Lovecraftian cosmology in contemporary horror and the uncanny realms of postmodern goblin cinema.

More information on his debut short, Caecilia (2017) is available here: http://www.caeciliafilm.com/

http://www.gabrielgettman.com/

Kicking off another visionary director's non-sequential trilogy, Lucy and Sean are joined by writer and journalist Philippa Snow to plunge into the strange liminal territory of sociological metamorphoses, crime, deserts, uncomfortable parties and pornography as they discuss David Lynch's 1997 film: Lost Highway

Dispatch from the Screaming Edge of Now - Sean and Lucy explore the newly born yet fast becoming mythos of MOMO the Facebook hoax come queer icon and her predecessors in the hypersitional world of internet cryptids.

[UPDATE: WYRD_SIGNAL is now on PATREON! Find out more about how to support the show at https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod]

Sean and Lucy team up with their erstwhile pal and collaborator Chris Richford to talk about cosmic horror, Hellenic philosophy, biology, computers and the death of masculinity in John Carpenter's gut-twisting masterpiece The Thing!

In this episode Lucy and Sean pay tribute to two key figures in the world of WYRD_SIGNAL: David Bowie and Nicholas Roeg, exploring the intersections of Cold War capitalism, space travel, gnosticism, time travel and the creative potential of cocaine and mirrors in the 1977 science fiction classic The Man who Fell to Earth

Sean and Lucy join Producer, DJ and Instrument Designer Lia Mice to talk about music and the techno-physicological implications of time travel.

Lia's new album The Sampler as Time Machine can be found here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5xxpAR2NmcRYj19XWrVe6v

Information on Lia's work is also available via her website: https://www.liamice.com/

Sean interviews philosopher David Roden about post-human futures, speculative realism and the limits of knowledge.

Lucy and Sean recall a grim Halloween night in the early 90s and discuss the hypersititonal phenomenon come collective national trauma that was BBC's 1992 'drama': Ghostwatch.

Lucy speaks with filmmaker, communist and soda enthusiast Jonathan Kennedy (@getradified) about his recent films, haunted media, surrealism, 80s skater films and the state of the weird in modern cinema.

Jonathan's work can be found at https://vimeo.com/getradified

Sean and Lucy team up with Elizabeth Sandifer to discuss the state and trajectory of modern cyberpunk in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017) and Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014).