Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

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

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This audio podcast is a four episode series focusing on current themes and debates in the documentary studies field— bringing together the voices of filmmakers and scholars to discuss recent international documentary filmmaking and new critical writing about that work. The title of our podcast: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, refers to the game “20 questions” where players have 20 chances to guess a concept from the first question: “is it animal, vegetable or mineral?” alluding to the many different forms that documentary can take.

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A Conversation with Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir about her film "The Mother of All Lies" 12.07.2025 42:52

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 19.05.2025 44:00

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/ .

Deirdre Boyle on her new book about Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh 13.04.2025 56:36

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/ .

The Double Take -- The Two Volcano Films of 2022: "Fire of Love" (Sara Dosa) and "The Fire Within" (Werner Herzog) 17.03.2025 40:43

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 histo...