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Welcome to series 7 of Projections Podcast. This week Mary and Sarah kick off The Uncanny with a look at two domicile-based films by masters of cinema: Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel (1962) and Roman Polanski’s The Tenant (1976).

On episode two of The Uncanny series, Mary and Sarah engage in a slightly delirious discussion of food, family dynamics and trauma in Robert Aldrich’s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) and Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Swallow (2020). Deviations include our favourite bodily fluids and a great idea for a new A24 project.

Mary and Sarah discuss the differences between beauty and the sublime in episode three of our series on The Uncanny. First up the sublime becomes ridiculous in Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her (1992), then beauty lead to the sublime in Claire Oakley’s Make Up (2019).

Mary and Sarah explore the meaning of dummies and dolls in two uncanny horror movies; the 1945 anthology film Dead of Night, and John Lafia’s Child’s Play 2.

In the penultimate episode of our Uncanny series, Mary and Sarah talk surgery and identity formation in Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (1960) and Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In (2011).

It’s the final episode of The Uncanny series! Mary and Sarah discuss uncanny tech in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2015) and Spike Jonze’s Her (2013) and share some of their own strange technology experiences.

Welcome to Series 6, in which we will explore The Double in cinema, an uncanny storytelling device often relied upon to represent self-division, a split in personality, or an emotional conflict. In Episode 1, Mary and Sarah discuss the desire to return to the womb and the doubling of the psychoanalytic process in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) and François Ozon's L'Amant Double (2017).

Continuing our series on the subject of The Double, Mary and Sarah discuss lookalikes in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s sublime film The Double Life of Veronique (1991) and John Woo’s ridiculous one Face/Off (1997). We talk Otto Rank’s influential text, projection, creativity and religion.

For episode 3 of The Double series, Sarah and Mary discuss ‘Clones’ and relationship anxiety in Sean Ellis’ 2008 film The Brøken and Duncan Jones’ Moon (2009). Deviations include Edgar Allan Poe and… Jackie Collins.

Mary and Sarah are back on the theme of ‘The Double’, discussing the Jungian shadow in Jordan Peele’s Us (2019) and Christopher Smith’s Triangle (2009). Ideas thrown about include ‘the deplorables’, the interior world of the abuser and why Australians are so damn good at cinema.

Sarah and Mary are back with another episode of The Double series. This time we're looking at stage personas in Casey Affleck's performance piece I'm Still Here (2010) and Todd Haynes' cult masterpiece Velvet Goldmine (1998). We discuss the psychoanalytic persona and Mary gives an insight into her own change of name–plus numerous fun facts about David Bowie and Joaquin Phoenix.

In our penultimate episode of The Double series, Mary and Sarah explore confused identities, society’s love for the persona and LARPing in Basil Deardon’s The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) and Sophia Takal’s Always Shine (2016).