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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: The Podcast About All Things Documentary

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This audio podcast is a four episode series focusing on current themes and debates in the documentary studies field— bringing together the voices of filmmakers and scholars to discuss recent international documentary filmmaking and new critical writing about that work.

The title of our podcast: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, refers to the game “20 questions” where players have 20 chances to guess a concept from the first question: “is it animal, vegetable or mineral?” alluding to the many different forms that documentary can take.
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In this conversation recorded in front of a live audience at the 2024 Sheffield DocFest, Alisa and Topiary discuss the extraordinary hybrid documentary The Mother of All Lies with its acclaimed first time director from Morocco, Asmae El Moudir.
Host Alisa Lebow interviews the acclaimed Italian filmmaker during his appearance at the Visible Evidence conference in Udine, Italy.For show notes and episode transcript:https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/avm1/michelangelo-frammartino/.
Alisa Lebow interviews Deirdre Boyle on the occasion of the publication of her remarkable and important new book Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh.For episode show notes, a downloadable transcript, and more information about this episode and our entire series, go to: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/avm1/dierdre-boyle-on-her-new-book-about-rithy-panh/.
A conversation between co-hosts Samuael Topiary and Alisa Lebow as we debate the virtues and complexities of these two different films about the same French volcanologists, Katia and Maurice Krafft, created with the same archive of footage. Mid-way through the episode, we are joined by special guest, Toby Ashworth, an expert on documentaries about geology. Toby shares his knowledge about the history of volcano films and adds his own views about the uncanny relationship between Sara Dosa's film Fire of Love (2022) and Werner Herzog's requiem The Fire Within (2022).For episode show notes, a downloadable transcript, and more information about this episode and our entire series, go to our website: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/avm1/
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