Episode 175: Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:30:00 -0400

Daphne du Maurier was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, and short stories resonant with what she termed "a sense of unreality." In this episode, JF and Phil discuss her great short story "Don't Look Now," which Nicholas Roeg famously adapted to the screen in 1973 in a film starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Recorded live at Shannon Taggart's Lily Dale Symposium on July 25th, 2024, the discussion takes a number of turns, exploring the ghost as an "image of itself," the phenomenon of "deathishness," the experience of derealization, the human capacity to break time, and grief as a rift in time.

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REFERENCES

Daphne du Maurier, "Don't Look Now"
Nicholas Roeg (dir.), Don't Look Now
Weird Studies, Episode 66 on “Diviner’s Time”
Chuck Klosterman, "Tomorrow Rarely Knows”
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
Peter Medak (dir.), The Changeling
Philip K. Dick, “Schizophrenia and the Book of Changes”

Episode 132: Art Is an Alien Technology: Live at the Supernormal Festival

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:30:00 -0400

With his 2010 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog peeled away the veneer of familiarity on the Chauvet cave paintings, restoring them to their original eldritch sparkle. In this conversation, Phil and JF discuss a cinematic jewel that was wrought under tremendous pressure – and is all the more dazzling for it. The episode was recorded live at the Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire, England, where your hosts were also subjected to unexpected pressure as the band Plastics started their set at the same time as the talk! Though we feel the musical accompaniment adds depth to the dialogue, listeners who find it distracting can skip to the end of the Plastics' set around 41:30. All listeners are urged to visit the band's Bandcamp page to sample some choice hardcore.

Weird Studies thanks Strange Attractor Press, the Supernormal Festival , and Plastics. JF Martel gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts in making this live recording possible.

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SHOW NOTES

Werner Herzog, “The Minnesota Declaration”
Tom Waits, “Step Right Up”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Weird Studies, Episode 76 on “Hellier”
Stanley Kubrick (dir.), 2001: A Space Odyssey
Paul Bahn, Images of the Ice Age
Weird Studies, Episode 101 on “In Praise of Shadows
Weird Studies, Episode 129 on “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Matthew Barney, The Cremaster Films
Stanley Kubrick, The Shining

Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Live Recordings”

Episode 175: Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale

Episode 132: Art Is an Alien Technology: Live at the Supernormal Festival