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

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

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.

Publisher

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Mar 2025

Latest episode

12 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Jul 2025

   A Conversation with Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir about her film "The Mother of All Lies"

   Director Asmae El Moudir discusses her hybrid documentary, *The Mother of All Lies*, with Alisa and Topiary, revealing insights into its creation and impact in this interview.

2. 

   19 May 2025

   An interview with Italian eco-filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino

   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/ (https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/avm1/michelangelo-frammartino/).

3. 

   13 Apr 2025

   Deirdre Boyle on her new book about Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh

   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.

4. 

   17 Mar 2025

   The Double Take -- The Two Volcano Films of 2022: "Fire of Love" (Sara Dosa) and "The Fire Within" (Werner Herzog)

   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/ (https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/avm1/podcast-template-page-episode-one/)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 13 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

14

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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