BONUS: Red Rooms
Added 2024-11-18 05:54:56 +0000 UTCFollowing our conversation with the film's director Pascal Plante, we dive into one of the year's best films, Red Rooms: a thriller tailor made for our disaffected, hyper-mediated moment that asks many unsettling questions about the way emerging technologies sever us from empathy, create parasocial complexes, and push toward frightening new modes of nonconsensual connectivity and surveilance.
We continue our contemplations on Haneke's "Violence and the Media", and how Red Rooms explores notions of equivalency amongst the images on our screens. Then, we praise Plante's formal control and ethics, how he constructs his 21st century milieu, what he chooses to show and how he shows it. Finally, we caution against passivity when engaging with mediated forms and why our moment demands that we make meaning of our realities, even as powerful forces work toward our mindless complicity in ever-expanding horrors.
Red Rooms is available now on VOD and on Region A Blu Ray from Vinegar Syndrome.
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Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish.
Comments
I know I'm late responding here, but thank you so much, Jolene! Glad that it was an enriching listen.
Hit Factory
2024-12-20 01:52:48 +0000 UTCThis was incredible. The thoughtful engagement and levels of critical analysis while also laughing is a feat. Going to sit with the ways in which my dissonance interrupts my humanity. Thanks for this. Reminding me again and again, love is a political act and that love can be the root, the branches, and the leaves of spectacle. We can love those who engage in monstrous acts. Internalizing systems is very real.
Jolene Bresney
2024-11-18 18:43:01 +0000 UTC
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