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Rating
4.9from
This podcast has
52 episodes
Language
EnglishPublisher
Erin Stafford and Heyd FontenotExplicit
Yes
Date created
2021/04/12
Latest episode
2023/08/07
Average duration
82 min.
Release period
21 days
Description
Artists Talk Movies is a platform for discussing films with contemporary visual and performing artists. Hosts Erin Stafford and Heyd Fontenot speak with a variety of guests about the influence of cinema on their own artistic practices. Foregoing stuffy “art speak”, this lively podcast delivers insight and introduces you to living artists in unique conversations. Explore the movies that caused a chain reaction of creativity by influencing artists of the 21st century. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erin-stafford/support
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Enter the Dragon (1973)
2023/08/07
Get ready dear listeners to enter the dragon as Heyd and Erin discuss the action-packed Bruce Lee’s film with Dallas-based Adnan Razvi, who is drawn to the explosive energy and the philosophical mantras sprinkled throughout the film. This blockbuster sensation was influential to many creatives and set the stage for Kung-Fu as a cultural juggernaut for many generations. Listen in as we punch, kick and chop into topics such as colonialism,
cultural displacement and exoticism, but don’t worry, podcasters “don’t kick back”!
Tangents: gesture drawing, white-washing, Jeffrey Epstein, Tea, 4th of July, sound effects, food photography, cannabis, art critics, dangerous children’s toys
For more information about Adnan's studio practice, check out his website www.mr-rzv.com and Instagram @mr_rzv
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The Hours (2002)
2023/07/10
Heyd, I think I'll get the flowers myself!
Three artists from different backgrounds, each watching a movie that features three women from different time periods. This beautiful, yet gut-wrenching movie has visual elements of contrast and contradiction that directly relates to guest artist Sookoon Ang's artistic expression. Join us and find out how Erin, Heyd and Sookoon's lives overlap in this episode about The Hours as they discuss various topics including creative lifestyles, social relevance, and artistic jealousy.
Warning: This episode mentions suicide. Please take care and seek help if needed.
Tangents: Fight Club, Harvey Weinstein, Cake Fail, The Awakening, OceanGate, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, The Duggars, Damien Hirst, 30 Rock
For more information about Sookoon's studio practice, check out her website www.sookoonang.com and Instagram @sookoonang
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Qala (2022) with Nida Bangash
2023/06/19
Get ready dear listeners to discover this stunning psychological drama film Qala, directed by Anvita Dutt through the insightful lens of guest artist Nida Bangash. With the protagonist Qala, a talented singer who often struggles with a demanding mother with internalized misogyny, we discuss frustrations as a creative whilst surrounded by a world of inequality and double standards. One part horror, one part dream and one part beauty, this film sheds soft light on the fragility of the artistic voice and the price of breaking the creative spirit.
Warning: This episode mentions suicide. Please take care and seek help if needed.
Tangents: black sheep, plagues, family traditions, transgender debate, therapy, colonial propaganda, paternity/maternity leave, cheerleading
For more information about Nida's studio practice, check out her website www.nidabangash.com and Instagram @nidabangash
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Gattaca (1997) with Juan Escobedo
2023/05/21
Hey there listeners!!! We are back with artist Juan Escobedo as we wade through this sci-fi movie Gattaca, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, questioning the morality of DNA manipulation starring VERY pretty people. This dystopian futurist vision with Valid and In-Vaid members of society predetermined by their genetic make-up provides a springboard to current issues of discrimination, institutional hierarchies, and tokenism. So won't you provide us with a sample of your DNA so that we can have it...Oh...I'm sorry, the wind caught it...
Tangents: Berlin Zoo, gay coding, Bechtel AND DuVernay test, CRISPR, Rand Paul, Maya Rudolph, Discount Tire, Maurizio Cattelan
For more information about Juan's studio practice, check out his website www.jce-art.com and Instagram @x_j.esc
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Solaris (1972) with Denise Prince
2023/04/17
Have you ever wondered what makes someone "real"? Well, we ponder that very existential question with artist Denise Prince with her influential movie choice Solaris from 1972. This Soviet science fiction drama presents alien life in the form of an ocean that seeps into our subconsciousness to artificially reveal people from our past, as the protagonist Kris is presented with his former wife who died from suicide. With Denise's interest in the organization of reality by our fantasies, we submerge into deep thoughts regarding human connections, the meaning of life and of course sex dolls!
Tangents: artificial intelligence, Elon Musk, The Seven Year Itch, aging, Bechtel Test, mirrors in art, gravity, babies
For more information about Denise's studio practice, check out her website www.deniseprince.com and Instagram @denise.prince.x
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Fellini Satyricon (1969) with Richard Saja
2023/03/27
Heyd and Erin couldn't resist PROBING this pre-Christian, ancient Roman text adapted by Federico Fellini with Richard Saja, an artist who's whimsical alterations of French toile patterns reveal subversions of an alternative reality that feeds into the Felliniesque style. Originally written during the time of Nero, its no surprise that Satyricon embraces chaos, lust and debauchery, with dream-like erotically charged imagery that follows scantily clad "blonde hottie" and brunette hottie" through a chaotic story. We loved every juicy, outrageous minute!
Tangents: Lauren Boebert, Marylin Minter, Jeff Goldblum, Fight Club, Wari funerals, Mad Cow Disease, Goya, war on drag
For more information about Noah's practice, check out his Instagram @richardsaja
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Here and Elsewhere (1972) with Noah Simblist
2023/03/06
Are you ready dear listeners to earn an honorary PhD with Erin and Heyd??? Well, get ready as we discuss this French "documentary" film that explores the very nature of images and reality with curator and writer Noah Simblist. We talk about capitalism. We talk about politics. We talk about bread? Its a lively conversation about how media can manipulate the viewer and even find them complicit. C'est complicated!
Tangents: Freedom Fries, Instagram filters, A Clockwork Orange, Alex Jones, Zionism, Fox News, Leni Riefenstahl, Heyd's mom, Oklahoma (the musical),
For more information about Noah's practice, check out his website www.noahsimblist.com and Instagram @noahsimblist
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The Fly (1986) with Matthew Ronay
2023/02/20
There was a young man who became a fly
I don’t know why he became a fly – Perhaps he’ll die!
Who doesn't love a gruesome body horror movie staring an Adonis such as Jeff Goldbloom??? Heyd and Erin invited New York-based artist Matthew Ronay who was influenced by The Fly from 1986 at an early age. Matthew's biomorphic sculptures shift between abstraction and representation, much like Brundlefly's transformation with connections to disease, aging, pregnancy, and puberty. Won't you teleport with us through this story of decay and loss that exposes our most basic human fear of losing control of our own bodies? Be afraid. Be very afraid!
Tangents: AIDS crisis, 9/11, Joseph Cornell, anxious/avoidant attachment style, toxic masculinity, bathrooms, trypophobia, cybernetics, EO, American Ivy style, Grand-Guignol
For more information about Matthew's studio practice, follow him on Instagram @mysteriousfog
Warning: talks of suicide in this episode. Please take care of yourself www.suicidepreventionlife.org
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Special Episode! Gray Gardens (1976)
2023/02/06
Pack your bags darling listeners as Heyd and Erin journey to East Hampton to explore a guilty pleasure film called Gray Gardens, a documentary featuring Big and Little Edie, a mother-daughter duo who represent a riches-to-rags story. As outsiders in their community, the Beales have cemented themselves as camp icons with a penchant for performing their musical talents whilst swimming in the ocean of nostalgic reverie. As we dig into themes of arrested development, the aesthetics of decay, and exhibitionism, you too can have your cake and eat, chew and masticate it too!
Tangents: cat lady trope, empathy, avant-garde fashion, Michael Jackson, the Kardashians, Abstract Expressionism, Madonna, Criterion Collection, feminism, match-making, portraiture
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Ben-Hur (1959) with Celia Eberle
2023/01/23
God grant me vengeance. I pray that you listen to this amazingly EPIC episode with artist Celia Eberle, who watched this Biblical fan fiction film Ben-Hur at the tender age of 9, which made a great impression on her. We vow with every stroke of our oar you will enjoy this discussion which includes homoerotic undertones, world building and propaganda. So hang onto your suggestively shaped spear as we navigate these waters before we have to take if from your "cold, dead hands!".
Tangents: White Christian Nationalist, Tom Cruise, Titanic, Saint Teresa, Chinese cinema, censorship, The Simpson, white washing, Maintenance Phase podcast, The Whale
For more information about Celia' studio practice, check out his website www.celiaeberle.com and Instagram @eberlecelia
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991) with Chris Castillo
2023/01/09
Hello dear listeners...we have invited artist/photographer/librarian Chris Castillo to discuss the award-winning horror movie The Silence of the Lambs and all of its complexities that tap into our collective fears. Inspired by real life serial killers, this film addresses transgressive subjects such as cannibalism, queerness, and Nazi sympathizers, but don't worry, Chris has promised us a Buffalo Bill Spotify playlist to soothe us like the lambs to the slaughter.
Tangents: queer coding, trama bonding, Hays Code, Xipe Totec, Venus of Willendorf, stranger danger, lab grown meat, Black Dalia, cold readings
Jame Gumb (aka Buffalo Bill) Spotify Playlist!
For more information about Chris' studio practice, check out his website www.thatchriscastillo.com and Instagram @chrisclean
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The Happening (2008) with Ricardo iamuuri Robinson
2022/12/26
IN A WORLD, WHERE NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON...Ricardo iamuuri Robinson, a multi-faceted artist from Pittsburg, has selected M. Night Shymalan's tale of chaos and confusion called The Happening. Though this movie has not been seen favorably by most critics, Ricardo discusses the reasons why he is drawn to this epically terrible film as a way to understand the struggles of humanity, with an invisible villain who might just be that ficus tree in your corner. Heyd and Erin dig deep with Ricardo into this "satirical" movie with themes of loss, fear and tiramisu!
Tangents: Trump's NFTs, George Floyd, glory holes, Zardoz, propaganda, Artificial Intelligence, predictive programing
For more information about Ricardos's studio practice, check out her website www.sonarcheology.com and Instagram @lavenderfreddy
Video for “Working Thought” exhibition at CMOA https://cmoa.org/exhibition/working-thought/
BLACKBODY, White Noise https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/wf2bp2
Radio Gulf https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/qhcaxj
Checkpoint C https://traf.trustarts.org/events/4739
SPF 22 https://radioart.zone/friday-16-september
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Podcast reviews
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Tonysonnenberg 2023/02/01
Great way to learn more about artist!
This show is great because it shines a light on so many amazing artist that I would not have heard from otherwise. It features a lot of Texas based a...
great reapper 2022/12/08
pod cast
Great podcast !!
Manueliscool03 2022/12/08
Variety of Movies
I love to see the variety of genre of movies and all the different variety of movies in general that that have their own podcast dedicated to them.
Malena1131 2022/12/08
Loved it!
A really good podcast. Really like listening to it while driving. :)
Daniel-Mtz 2022/12/08
Interesting Podcast!
This podcast is super interesting and helps to comprehend how art is used in films, very informative and could be used as a class for visual arts!
k2_p 2022/12/08
Great podcast :)
I really like this podcast, my favorite one is the little mermaid. I really recommend it!!
natlopez26 2022/12/08
Great Podcast!
My sister and I first listened to the podcast when my professor mentioned she had one. It is so entertaining to listen to while your either cooking or...
Dibanhi12 2022/12/08
Little mermaid
Im very on to this podcast now, very interesting what they say about the movies.
MadisonMar 2022/12/06
Forrest Gump
Even though this movie didn’t age well later on. I enjoy listening to the feedback from the podcasters and would recommend other people to listen to t...
joooy04 2022/12/06
Good podcast
I really enjoyed listening to this podcast while cleaning. Can’t wait for more of this podcasts.
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