Tune in on DS106 Radio and join Jim Groom and MBS for this session about their Family Pictures podcast.
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As part of Reclaim Hosting’s blogathon during day 1 of Reclaim Open Michael Branson Smith (MBS) and I presented about the “Joy of Podcasting” live on ds106radio. The audio below includes our half-hour discussion around how and why we started the Family Pictures Podcast, as well as sharing our process. What”s more, it ends with ideas and potential spin-out projects for the future. The remaining hour and change of the audio is us doing an episode 41 of the podcast on Alfonso Cuarón‘s Children of Men (2006) —part of our 6-film theme focused on “Families on the Run.”
Family Pictures Podcast on ds106radio and Episode 41: “The Human Project Lives”
We explore the dystopian chaos of Children of Men (2006), a movie that somehow feels more real now than it did twenty years ago. We talk about the film’s relentless world-building with details like the graffiti, the cages, the Pink Floyd pig floating over the “Ark of the Arts” and how every frame feels like a visual essay on decline. We don’t spend nearly enough time on the jaw-dropping long takes (the car ambush and the Bexhill uprising), but there’s a deep dive into memory, loss, pets, and why the idea of family hits so hard when the future’s gone missing.
I even try and sneak in some of [[Frederic Jameson]]’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic to talk about conspiracy theories and urban uprising, but I never could explain his theory well enough to be cogent. Anyway, it was a fun ride for episode 41 that marks yet another brick in the Family Pictures Podcast wall