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

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

In this conversation recorded in front of a live audience at the 2024 Sheffield DocFest, Alisa and Topiary discuss the extraordinary hybrid documentary The Mother of All Lies with its acclaimed first time director from Morocco, Asmae El Moudir.

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/].

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. For episode show notes, a downloadable transcript, and more information about this episode and our entire series, go to: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/avm1/dierdre-boyle-on-her-new-book-about-rithy-panh/ [https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/avm1/dierdre-boyle-on-her-new-book-about-rithy-panh/].

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/]