A podcast series in which we talk about what is important to us in the art world today. Krupa comes from a background of media studies and humanities, and has always found connection and comfort in the art world. This is a free-form, multi-subject podcast, filled with drama, despair, hope, and pride, and we hope you have a great time with us.
Unintended Consequences: SISEA, SESTA, and FOSTA and the Threat to Independent Artists.
This week it's just you and me! I do a brief breakdown of three bills related to sex trafficking and pornography, and how they relate to independent artists' ability to freely create art without restrictions or legally enforced moral codes. SESTA/FOSTA, two bills aimed at criminalizing advertisements for sex work, nonconsensual and consensual alike, precursor a new bill, SISEA, which aims to combat sexual exploitation. I talk about how this type of legislature does more to combat the symptom rather than the source, and why it matters that we pay attention to internet regulation.
14 Oct 2020
First Rule of Movie Club is to Always Talk about Movie Club with Alex Berg
This week I chat with Alex Berg about his now weekly online movie nights with the 8Ball Movie Club, part of the 8Ball Community umbrella, as they've evolved over the past two years that he has been involved and new endeavors both this year and post COVID. We chat about what goes into programming a weekly movie club, what has excited him about working on the program, and what is coming up on the schedule. We also delve into Alex's experience in the film industry post-graduation, his experience working on reality TV sets, and advice for newcomers to the film industry: students, apprentices, and novices alike, and the industry as a whole - getting in, changing course, getting paid.
You can follow Alex Berg at @fishlux on Instagram, and watch with him each week at 8ball.tv, every Wednesday at 9pm EST.
10 Sept 2020
The Trouble With Twilight Part Two: Teenage Girl Power with Maggie Hall
This is a continuation of our last episode with Maggie Hall, that discussed the female vs. male gaze in relation to the Twilight film franchise. This week we speak about teenage girl fandom re: Twilight (but mention broader YA fantasy and science fiction as well), in how teenage girls are demeaned and interpreted as unintelligent or devalued by the artistic things that they enjoy. We compare male vs female fandom in both Twilight and Marvel, whose movie industry booms occurred at around the same time, we compare Twilight fandom and One Direction fandom shipping, and we discuss how male auteurs can get away with the same flaws that viewers find in YA fantasy geared towards teenage girls, while teenage girl fandoms get demonized for it.
26 Aug 2020
The Trouble With Twilight Part One: Fantasy for the Female Gaze with Maggie Hall
This week our ~esteemed~ guest Maggie Hall, who is a lifelong fan of the Twilight Series and a moderator for the Twilight subreddit, delves into how the male and female gaze are illustrated by the adaptation of the books into their subsequent films. We discuss each film's accuracy to their respective books, the politics behind the scenes of the film franchise, and imagine how each film might have been executed if a female director was at the helm. This is part one of a two-part series - next week we will discuss the public reception of the Twilight film franchise and the discrediting of teenage girl fandom, despite the immense power they wield.
19 Aug 2020
Losing My Mind in California with Amirali Hakim
This week our guest Amirali and I muse about the anxiety of being under quarantine with nothing to do, especially when attempting artistic endeavors. We touch on our routines changing, self-love and worth, independence, and the need to be liked versus the drain of being perceived. We bare our souls for a moment in time and hope to find some new ways to make it through to the other side of this!
15 Aug 2020
A Shoddily Cut Together Introduction
Please don't mind the change in my voice by the end of this episode, as this exists mostly as a test run to see if my platforms work! Welcome all, and get ready for our first episode out on August 19th.
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