Death is a Photograph

Season 1, Gen X — Episode 25 — Fresh Kill (1994)

Patreon is here.  [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod] Today's DPP episode explores the little-known 1994 feature by multi-media artist Jessica Hagedorn – Fresh Kill. Recycling, sushi, yuppies, toxic waste, nameless megacorporations, ethical hacking – Staten Island – Fresh Kill has it all, wrapped up in a dissonant prose-poem of a script. But did the world really turn into the endlessly diffused and globalised set of networks that Hagedorn predicts? Find out in today's episode.

Season 1, Gen X — Episode 24 — Goodbye, Lenin! (2003)

Find our patreon here [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod].  The DPP boys were picking through the flea markets of Berlin — looking for Trabant car parts and old jars of Spreewaldgurken. In amongst the clutter, we came across a dusty videotape — Goodbye, Lenin! (2003). Wolfgang Becker's breakout hit — a deep dive into Ostalgie — only a few years after German reunification — asks the question: what if you could keep living in a dead political system and world? How possible is it to protect ourselves from the shocks of capitalism, to retreat into nostalgia? Find out in today's episode.

Season 1, Gen X — Episode 23 — Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Like, rate, and subscribe at our patreon – here. [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod]  This week, DPP delve into the high school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). The film, directed by Amy Heckerling and based on the gonzo reporting of Cameron Crowe, is a vignette of teenage life in suburban southern California in the 1980s. With Reagan in power, plentiful jobs, and easy credit, what did adolescence look like for a broad swathe of the American population not normally depicted in films, for lack of interest and dramatic effect? (i.e the Californian middle class). And what was the texture of life like in the early 1980s, before the neoliberal turn had had its full effect on the same group of people? Find out in today's episode.

Season 1, Gen X — Episode 22 — i ♥ huckabees (2004) w/Andrew Young

Chase is solo on this episode with guest Andrew Young to discuss i ♥ huckabees, an under-the-radar feature film by early Gen-X wunderkind David O. Russell. NIMBYism, environmentalism, cod-psychology, adolescent existentialism, self-help, the fear of suburbia, ecological doom, space-hoppers – i ♥ huckabees has it all. Where does a generation go when questions of material survival have been answered? Find out in today's episode. Patreon, as always, is here. [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod]

Season 1, Gen X — Episode 21 — 24 Hour Party People (2002)

Subscribe to DPP's patreon. [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod]  This week, DPP takes on Gen X myth-making about the city of Manchester – namely, through Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People. Why did Manchester explode as a Gen X-era subcultural and music mecca in the 1980s and 1990s, overtaking places more central to the boomer consciousness like Liverpool? And how did those involved in the post-punk and acid-house scenes of the era understand the sociology and economics of the epoch in retrospect? Find out in today's episode.