Podcast appearances and mentions of Sophie Fiennes

** Doors are now open for Reel Ruminators: Explorer, an annual membership which curates 12 incredible films you may have missed. ** Find out more here: http://seventh-row.com/explorer ** Or purchase your membership now: http://reelruminators.com/payment  ------- Last week on the podcast, Alex recommended the Cillian Murphy Irish drama Small Things Like These, directed by Tim Mielants.  A listener raised that the film had terrible distribution, so in this episode, Alex looks at why it's so hard to see Small Things Like These. She compares the film's distribution to other Cillian Murphy independent films, other films in this year's Berlinale Competition (where Small Things premiered), and other niche films starring even bigger stars.  Unfortunately, while the distribution for Small Things Like These is frustratingly bad, it's actually pretty good for a film of its ilk. Related Episodes: 146. Tim Mielants' Small Things Like These Creative Nonfiction #2: Sophie Fiennes on Four Quartets Ep. 38 Australian Westerns and The True History of the Kelly Gang (Members Only) Stay updated on Seventh Row Follow Seventh Row on Twitter and Instagram. Read our articles at seventh-row.com. Follow Alex Heeney on Twitter and Instagram. 

**To join the waitlist for Reel Ruminators: A Movie-of-the-Month Discussion Club, visit http://seventh-row.com/reelruminators ** Legendary theatre director Marianne Elliott (Angels in America at the National Theatre, gender-swapped Company, War Horse) joins Alex on the podcast to discuss her feature film debut, The Salt Path. The film is based on the best-selling memoir about a working-class British couple who lose their home and embark on a long hike along the coast to heal themselves. It had its world premiere at TIFF. Elliott sat down with Alex via Zoom before the film's premiere to discuss the challenges and excitement of making the move from theatre to film and why she wanted to tell this particular story about a woman in her 50s and her husband. The Salt Path was a sales title at the festival and does not yet have a North American distributor. The episode is spoiler-free. Related Episodes: 98. Marianne Elliott's Angels in America (Members Only) 42. Dominic Cooke's On Chesil Beach  (Members Only) Bonus 17. Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle in The Tragedy of Macbeth (Members Only) Creative Nonfiction #2: Sophie Fiennes on Four Quartets and documenting theatre on film Creative Nonfiction #4: Sam Green on 32 Sounds and inspirations from theatre About the TIFF 2024 season: The TIFF 2024 season previews under-the-radar gems and buzzy titles at the festival with spoiler-free episodes that will help you prioritize what to watch for in the coming months. The season will be spoiler-free and designed to be listened to even if you haven't seen the films (or are worried you won't ever be able to).  Check out all of our TIFF 2024 coverage here: https://seventh-row.com/tiff24

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Dan get into the first part of Slavoj Zizek's The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006, directed by Sophie Fiennes). They consider one of the film's core propositions – that cinema is an instruction in how and what to desire. This leads them through Zizek's (and their own) interpretations of classic Hitchcock films, Alien, Blue Velvet, and beyond. More broadly, they discuss whether psychoanalysis is essential for understanding film, reading movies like books, the allure of exegesis, and more.Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you've traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! 484 775-0107 A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @OrdinaryUnhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO Provided by Fruits Music

Today's episode is about "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami", a doc about legendary Jamaican singer and style icon Grace Jones, directed by Sophie Fiennes. The movie was selected by our guest, Kyp Malone, who you probably know from the seminal 2000's Brooklyn indie-rock band TV on the Radio. Bloodlight and Bami and is a verite portrait of Grace Jones' life, over the course of a few years in the 2010s. If you're looking for a Wikipedia-style run through Grace Jones' career and the backstory of how she got there, this ain't it. You are just right there with her, living her life. Fortunately, she is a compelling enough figure to carry a movie without a lot of hand-holding by the filmmakers. The movie features many stunning performances (what a voice! she's still got it!), a trip back to Jamaica to reunite with family, scenes of Grace dealing with record companies and TV producers and chewing out Sly & Robbie, and some genuinely touching moments. Kyp absolutely brought the goods and we were honored and thrilled to have him on. Check out his solo stuff & go see him when he comes to your town. Rock Docs is a Treble Media Podcast hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts   Twitter: @RockDocsPod   Instagram: @RockDocsPod   Cover Art by N.C. Winters - check him out on Instagram at @NCWintersArt  

Can you understand a novel - or a life - before you know how it ends?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom Beethoven's 5th to Batman, Harry Potter to Hamlet, we want and expect satisfying endings that tie up loose ends and provide resolution. But real life doesn't often come tied up so neatly. Relationships and careers often evolve in tangled confusion with transitions that can leave messy legacies. And, as TS Eliot said, often things end "not with a bang but a whimper." Is it that our stories and narratives are in error, or the way we run our lives? Academy award nominee David Hare, critically acclaimed writer Janne Teller and director-producer Sophie Fiennes talk endings. Hosted by Barry Smith, Director of the Institute of Philosophy.There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for you to explore. Find out more: https://iai.tv/podcast-offers?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes&utm_campaign=after-happily-ever-afterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the second episode of our Creative Nonfiction Film podcast season, Sophie Fiennes discusses The Four Quartets and how she approaches documenting live performance on screen. In The Four Quartets, she captures the stage play of the same name, directed by and starring her brother, actor Ralph Fiennes. For the production, Ralph Fiennes adapted the T.S. Eliot poem for the stage — which was never originally intended to be performed that way — and then toured this production around the UK in 2021. Sophie Fiennes's film of The Four Quartets is neither live capture nor a full adaptation of the play. Instead, Fiennes remarkably documents the theatre production on screen, maintaining all the original lighting and blocking. Her choices of framing and camera movement really puts us in the black box theatre with Ralph Fiennes. Unlike most recorded theatre, where there is a constant sense of information loss, Sophie Fiennes gives us a sense of the theatrical space so we get a better sense of what we're missing when we're missing it. It's built into Sophie Fiennes's direction. Sophie Fiennes discusses Ralph Fiennes's production, the challenges of documenting the play on screen, and how working with Declan Donnellan of Cheek by Jowl just before she shot The Four Quartets changed how she thinks about acting and theatre. Click here to read the episode show notes. The show notes also include excerpts from Sophie Fiennes's director's script. You will also find an AI-generated transcript in the show notes. Useful links Read T.S. Eliot's The Four Quartets Listen to Cheek by Jowl's Not True But Useful podcast episode on thresholds and space Read our interview with Sophie Fiennes on Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami More on creative nonfiction Download a FREE excerpt from Subjective Realities here. Get your copy of the ebook Subjective Realities: The art of creative nonfiction film here. Get your copy of the ebook In their own words: Documentary Masters vol. 1 Become a Member All of our episodes that are over 6 months old are available to members only. We also regularly record members only episodes. To get full access to the podcast, including episodes from past Sundance Film Festivals and past Sundance films, become a member. As a member, you will also be supporting what we do, and helping us cover the (expensive) costs of hosting, running a website, podcast equipment, and more. This helps to ensure we can continue producing the podcast. Related Episodes on creative nonfiction Ep. 99: Creative Nonfiction with Penny Lane and Carol Nguyen Sundance 2023 Ep. 7: Best of the fest + documentaries Fantastic Machine, Is There Anybody Out There, and more Ep. 123: Sundance 2022: Creative Nonfiction Members Only Episodes Ep. 67: Frederick Wiseman's Ex Libris and City Hall  (Members only) Ep. 95: No Ordinary Man and John Ware Reclaimed: Reclaiming history in documentary (Members only) Credits Host Alex Heeney is the Editor-in-Chief of Seventh Row. Find her on Twitter @bwestcineaste. Email us at contact seventh row com. This episode was edited, produced, and recorded by Alex Heeney.

This is a preview of part two of our conversation with acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes about her Pervert's Guide series. We discuss the Pervert's guide films, William Shatner, space and the abyss of freedom, as well as the recent Rockhill hit piece on Slavoj. Special thank you to Sophie Fiennes for giving us so much of her time and to everyone who has supported us over the last three years. Share the episode if you can as it really helps both the podcast and getting the final Pervert's Guide out into the world. We have some great interviews and episodes coming up so stay tuned. Enjoy! SUPPORT US AND LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! zizekandsoon.com

Alright, we're back! Today we're talking with acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes about her Pervert's Guide series.  We discuss film, ideology, AI, politics, Slavoj's close encounters and the early stages of the third instalment of her series: The Pervert's Guide to Utopia.  Special thank you to Sophie Fiennes for giving us so much of her time and to everyone who has supported us over the last three years. Share the episode if you can and keep an eye out for part two coming soon! Check out the FTKNWTD course with Matthew Flisfeder and our other Patreon episodes here: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon

Today we offer an inspirational quote from avant garde singer, songwriter, model, actor and artist Grace Jones. And after you put some Grace in your ears, you can learn more about her life and career from the sources linked below:Jones' mind-blowing 2016 autobiography I'll Never Write My Memoirs,; the 2018 documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami directed by Sophie Fiennes, or the illustrated book Grace Jones A to Z: The Life of an Icon – from Androgyny to Zula by Steve Wide and Babeth Lafon. Daily drops of Good Black News are based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com, Amazon, Bookshop and other online retailers. Intro beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot. Outro is excerpt of "Pull Up To the Bumper" by Grace Jones from her 1981 LP Nightclubbing.For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

Brividi edipici La prima clip è tratta dalla serata inaugurale del Festival di Cannes 1963 (filmato di Rai Tre all rights reserved). La seconda da “Guida perversa al cinema” (scritto da Slavoj ZIzek-regia di Sophie Fiennes-la voce italiana di Zizek è di Tatti Sanguineti-2012 all rights reserved)

No longer content with sitting in one country, this week the Crit Club joined icon Grace Jones in a trip around the world. We watched Sophie Fiennes' Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, which chronicles Jones recording her 2008 album Hurricane, its subsequent world tour and her visit to her family in Jamaica. Come listen to us discuss divas stripped down, musical documentaries, the benefits of confidence and the persistent force of Grace Jones. Other things we discussed: Don't Look Back Bandsplain Shadow and Bone For All Mankind Major League Baseball And join us next week for a WIZARD PICK (rippin' guitar solo). Chris, as Chris does, chose Jack Woods' 1970 monster movie Equinox. Find it on the Criterion Channel, or wherever you get your 1970s supernatural horror movies, and watch along! And drop us a line! You can email us at critclubcast@gmail.com or find us on Twitter with the handle @critclubcast.

In this first episode of a two part retrospective, I'm joined by my Perth muso friends Jeremy (of Segue) and Laurent (of Catwalk) (both also of Didion's Bible) to discuss the music of Arcade Fire and how their first two albums (Funeral, 2004 and Neon Bible, 2007) tap into the zeitgeist of 2000s Americana and its changing socio-economic landscape. Topics of discussion include the band's preoccupation with nostalgia and innocence; their grappling with a post 9/11 and pre GFC U.S. (where the American dream seems to be well and truly in tatters); and their growing sense of technologically induced paranoia.  Next week, we look to The Suburbs (2010) and beyond...  Closing music 'I get it', courtesy of Segue.  Texts: You Are Now Remotely Controlled, by Shoshana Zuboff (for The New York Times), 2020 --> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Hate Inc., by Matt Taibbi, 2019 --> (first hundred pages or so...) https://astudygroup.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/hate_inc_by_matt_taibbi_v0.1_1.pdf The Perverts Guide to Ideology, written by Slavoj Žižek and directed by Sophie Fiennes, 2006 --> (They Live clip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwKjGbz60k Requiem for the American Dream (feat. Noam Chomsky), Dir.  Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott, 2015.

E agora que o Oscar já foi? Vamos dar aquela palpitada na escolha da academia? A gente veio pra criticar e contribuir com a digestão destas obras de cinema. Dessa vez, contamos com a ajuda da crítica de cinema Lorenna Montenegro do coletivo Elviras de críticas de Cinema. Edição magnífica de Arthur Barbosa. Twitter: @AmaterializandoFacebook: Materializando a Históriaapoia.se/materializandoahistoriaDoutrinação Marxista:Douglas Kellner - A Cultura da Mídia.MULHERES ATRÁS DAS CÂMERAS: AS CINEASTAS BRASILEIRAS DE 1930 A 2018 - Org: Camila Vieira da Silva e Luiza Lusvarghi.O Guia do Pervertido Para a Ideologia - Documentário - Sophie Fiennes.OBSERVAÇÃO: Tivemos uma pequena falha na fala introdutória da Lorenna no início, mas logo o áudio (20 minutos) é consertado e fica tudo beleza! Desculpe-nos por isso, mas estamos melhorando.

Thom Powers and Face2Face host David Peck talk about documentary film, some of the films to look out for at TIFF 2019, empathy and social change, the politics of story and why Toronto is a special place.TIFF is a not-for-profit cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world through film.TIFF 2019 Buy tickets here: TIFF 2019 running from September 5th to the 15th. And check out TIFF trailers here. Be sure to listen to Thom Powers on: Pure Non Fiction About our Guest: Thom Powers has been an international documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Fectival since 2006. His TIFF selections have gone on to win critical and commercial acclaim including the Oscar winners Free Solo, Undefeated and Inside Job. As a programmer of music documentaries, he has moderated conversations with U2, Grace Jones, Yo-Yo Ma, Keith Richards, and Neil Young. He created and oversees TIFF Doc Conference, which has featured speakers such as Werner Herzog, Raoul Peck, and Sophie Fiennes. For nine years, he programmed the Festival’s Mavericks series, featuring conversations with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Chris Rock, and Julie Taymor. Powers hosts the podcast Pure Nonfiction, for which he has interviewed over 100 filmmakers, among them Agnès Varda, Ava DuVernay, and Wim Wenders. He and his wife, Raphaela Neihausen, are co-founders of DOC NYC, the USA’s largest documentary festival, and created its offshoot events DOC NYC Pro, Short List, Visionaries Tribute, and Boot Camps. They run the weekly documentary screening series Pure Nonfiction (formerly known as Stranger Than Fiction) at Manhattan’s IFC Center, and host WNYC’s Documentary of the Week that airs on New York’s public radio station and as a podcast. He has taught documentary producing at the School of Visual Arts MFA Social Documentary program, New York University School of Continuing Professional Studies and held the Allesee Chair in Media at Wayne State University. He is a co-founder of the Cinema Eye Honors, an annual award for documentary excellence, and the Garrett Scott Development Grant for first-time. He has written on documentary filmmaking for Positif, The Boston Globe, Realscreen, Filmmaker Magazine, Criterion, and STFdocs.com. Image Copyright: TIFF and Thom Powers. Used with permission. F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission. For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here. With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Grace Jones and director Sophie Fiennes discuss their documentary GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI, which is now playing here at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. This podcast is brought to you by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Film Lives Here. www.filmlinc.org

Episode 109 of One Week Only! Carlos was at the Louisiana International Film Festival this weekend, where he saw the terrific "Outside In" among other films. Our key film this week is "Godard Mon Amour" We also review the dark teen drama "And Then I Go"; true story drama "Little Pink House" starring Catherine Keener; creepy Exorcism documentary "The Devil and Father Amorth" directed by William Friedkin; and the intimate documentary "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami" directed by Sophie Fiennes. Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Edit Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Director Sophie Fiennes Posted on April 21, 2018 Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami is an electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones. The documentary contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones’s bold aesthetic. A larger-than-life entertainer, an androgynous glam-pop diva, an unpredictable media presence – Grace Jones is all these things and more. Sophie Fiennes’s documentary goes beyond the traditional music biography, offering a portrait as stylish and unconventional as its subject. Taking us home with her to Jamaica, into the studio with long-time collaborators Sly & Robbie, and backstage at gigs around the world, the film reveals Jones as lover, daughter, mother, and businesswoman. But the stage is the fixed point to which the film returns, with eye-popping performances of “Slave to the Rhythm,” “Pull Up to the Bumper,” “Love is the Drug,” and more. Jones herself has said watching the film “will be like seeing me almost naked” and, indeed, Fiennes’s treatment is every bit as definition-defying as its subject, untamed by either age or life itself. Director Sophie Fiennes joins us to talk about the dynamic in-concert performances, her access to Grace and her startling candor concerning her public and private life and the critical recognition the film has garnered. For news and updates got to: kinolorber.com/film/gracejonesbloodlightandbami Social Media: facebook.com/GraceJonesBloodlightAndBami twitter.com/miss_gracejones?lang=en instagram.com/gracejonesofficial

On Instagram: @bloodlightandbami @thompowers1 @purenonfictionThis interview was recorded at SVA's MFA Social Documentary program. Pure Nonfiction is distributed by the TIFF podcast network.

Grace Jones has been commanding attention for decades as a singer, actress and icon. Now filmmaker Sophie Fiennes crafts a documentary as unconventional as its subject in “Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami.” The film immerses us into Grace’s life on the road – from her childhood home in Jamaica to the recording studio of “Hurricane” […] The post 73: Sophie Fiennes on Grace Jones appeared first on Pure Nonfiction.

We discuss how amazing Grace Jones is and imperfect clothes in museums. Sophie Fiennes (director), Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami (2017): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6903636/ Francis Ford Coppola (director), Bram Stoker's Dracula(1992): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/ Grace Jones with Paul Morley, 'I Never Write My Memoirs' (2016): http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ill-Never-Write-My-Memoirs/Grace-Jones/9781476765082 Present Imperfect: Disorderly Apparel Reconfigured exhibition (2017): http://www.fashionspacegallery.com/exhibition/present-imperfect/

Director Sophie Fiennes spent five years making Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami - a film that gets close to the Jamaican icon, both on stage and off.

Grace Jones: the icon and the woman, and her music above all. The post Sophie Fiennes – Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami #TFF35 appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

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In a special Landmark edition, Matthew Sweet discusses Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker with the director Sophie Fiennes, the journalist Konstantin Von Eggert, whose family knew Tarkovsky, film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, the writer Geoff Dyer, and the academic and former tour guide in the Chernobyl Zone Dr Nicholas Rush Cooper from Durham University. Stalker tells the story of three men - Writer, Professor, and Stalker. We are never quite sure who Stalker is, or what he represents, but it's his job to lead Writer and Professor on a journey into a mysterious region called The Zone. At the heart of The Zone is a room in which all wishes come true.Based on the novel Roadside Picnic, by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Stalker is a kind of Science Fiction film with all the Science Fiction stripped out. Geoff Dyer notes that "Stalker has always invited allegorical readings, and since the film has something of the quality of prophecy, these readings are not confined to events that had occurred by the time the film was made." Is Stalker about the end of Communism? Does it prefigure the Chernobyl disaster? There are many possibilities, but the film remains mysterious.Producer: Laura Thomas

What do Hitchcock, Kung-fu Panda, Revenge of the Sith, Tarkovsky and They Live all have in common? Nothing. Except, maybe, that the power of artistic expression influences a bearded guy who looks and sounds like he's done possibly some drugs... by that we mean the drugs of KNOWLEDGE. And analysis. And ideologies. And Coca-Cola. Join us for a discussion of Slavoj Zizek, and the two films directed by Sophie Fiennes that feature him most prominently: THE PERVERTS GUIDE TO CINEMA and THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY.

En 2006, el filósofo y pensador político esloveno Slavoj Žižek creó un interesante paseo audiovisual por algunas películas famosas y otras no tanto, con el fin de mostrarnos cómo el cine no solo nos insta a desear sino que también nos enseña a hacerlo. Cinco años después, los disturbios y protestas en Egipto, Grecia, EEUU, Reino Unido y Chile (también) hicieron evidente que algo faltaba en la ecuación, por lo que Žižek reincidió con la misma colaboradora (la directora británica Sophie Fiennes) para mostrarnos la capacidad del cine de transmitir y develar ideologías, en otro paseo igual de fascinante e igual de denso. De esto y más hablamos en este podcast con nuestro invitado, el psicoanalista Miguel Reyes.

Full Fathom Five (Tor, 2014) the third and most recent novel in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence, features dying divinities and depositions, idols and investments, priestesses and poets, offerings to gods and options for shareholders. As he explains in the podcast, Gladstone traces his initial inspiration for his Craft Sequence to, among other things, his several years teaching English in rural China, where he saw children of subsistence farmers grow up to become engineers and international bankers. “The thought that that’s really the kind of range that exists in the modern world sort of blew my mind open,” he says. When he came back to the U.S., Gladstone experienced a kind of culture shock. “Coming back to billboards and advertising campaigns and bank account statements and all of that was this huge shock so I was forced to fall back on interpretive tropes from fantasy and science fiction … to grok it all.” Another influence on his writing was the financial collapse of 2008 where the image of governments and banks rushing to salvage failing investment firms inspired him to write about necromancers trying to resuscitate dying gods. Also in the podcast, Gladstone discusses his affinity for female protagonists, the role numbers play in the titles of his books, the risks of hidden bias in world-building fiction, and his new text based game Choice of Deathless. For more about Gladstone, visit his blog here. Here are links to some of people, books and things mentioned in the podcast: * Author Ramez Naam. * Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie * Author Hannu Rajaniemi. * The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold * The quotation about escape from Ursula K. LeGuin comes from her book The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. The quote is cited in a post on The Tolkienist about escapism as an elevating quality of fantasy literature. * The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slavoj Zizek. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. He blogs at Rob Wolf Books and I Saw it Today. Follow him on Twitter: @RobWolfBooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Full Fathom Five (Tor, 2014) the third and most recent novel in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence, features dying divinities and depositions, idols and investments, priestesses and poets, offerings to gods and options for shareholders. As he explains in the podcast, Gladstone traces his initial inspiration for his Craft Sequence to, among other things, his several years teaching English in rural China, where he saw children of subsistence farmers grow up to become engineers and international bankers. “The thought that that’s really the kind of range that exists in the modern world sort of blew my mind open,” he says. When he came back to the U.S., Gladstone experienced a kind of culture shock. “Coming back to billboards and advertising campaigns and bank account statements and all of that was this huge shock so I was forced to fall back on interpretive tropes from fantasy and science fiction … to grok it all.” Another influence on his writing was the financial collapse of 2008 where the image of governments and banks rushing to salvage failing investment firms inspired him to write about necromancers trying to resuscitate dying gods. Also in the podcast, Gladstone discusses his affinity for female protagonists, the role numbers play in the titles of his books, the risks of hidden bias in world-building fiction, and his new text based game Choice of Deathless. For more about Gladstone, visit his blog here. Here are links to some of people, books and things mentioned in the podcast: * Author Ramez Naam. * Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie * Author Hannu Rajaniemi. * The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold * The quotation about escape from Ursula K. LeGuin comes from her book The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. The quote is cited in a post on The Tolkienist about escapism as an elevating quality of fantasy literature. * The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slavoj Zizek. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. He blogs at Rob Wolf Books and I Saw it Today. Follow him on Twitter: @RobWolfBooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Full Fathom Five (Tor, 2014) the third and most recent novel in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence, features dying divinities and depositions, idols and investments, priestesses and poets, offerings to gods and options for shareholders. As he explains in the podcast, Gladstone traces his initial inspiration for his Craft Sequence to, among other things, his several years teaching English in rural China, where he saw children of subsistence farmers grow up to become engineers and international bankers. “The thought that that’s really the kind of range that exists in the modern world sort of blew my mind open,” he says. When he came back to the U.S., Gladstone experienced a kind of culture shock. “Coming back to billboards and advertising campaigns and bank account statements and all of that was this huge shock so I was forced to fall back on interpretive tropes from fantasy and science fiction … to grok it all.” Another influence on his writing was the financial collapse of 2008 where the image of governments and banks rushing to salvage failing investment firms inspired him to write about necromancers trying to resuscitate dying gods. Also in the podcast, Gladstone discusses his affinity for female protagonists, the role numbers play in the titles of his books, the risks of hidden bias in world-building fiction, and his new text based game Choice of Deathless. For more about Gladstone, visit his blog here. Here are links to some of people, books and things mentioned in the podcast: * Author Ramez Naam. * Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie * Author Hannu Rajaniemi. * The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold * The quotation about escape from Ursula K. LeGuin comes from her book The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. The quote is cited in a post on The Tolkienist about escapism as an elevating quality of fantasy literature. * The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slavoj Zizek. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. He blogs at Rob Wolf Books and I Saw it Today. Follow him on Twitter: @RobWolfBooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Film-maker Sophie Fiennes explains why she chose György Ligeti's Atmosphères for the soundtrack of a film about artist Anselm Kiefer, and Paul Griffiths explains its significance in Ligeti's development of cloud-like musical structures. And we also hear from the composer himself.

"VSPRS " A meeting with Alain Platel and Sophie Fiennes

Interview with Sophie Fiennes, director of "The Perverts Guide To Cinema," which was screened as part of The Documentary Bodega Series at UnionDocs. Camera by Christopher Allen. Interview and edit by Christopher Allen & Johanna Linsley.