Within Our Gates

Very special episode this go' round. I have with me Paul McIsaac one of the principal actors in the cinema of the late great Robert Kramer. I take a tour with Paul not only about his work with Kramer, but on the radical tendencies of the 60's, how radical artists looked to integrate with the movement, the different tendencies of the "New Left" and the postmortem that followed which created rich wo...

Peace Comrades! For this episode we conclude our Black Noir 92 double bill with Bill Duke's Deep Cover. Joining me again is Adam Thomas, and we dig into Duke's then timely work about the myths of the drug trade. Deep Cover is a fascinating work as it deals with not only with the issues fake war, but also the complications of capitalist ascension for non white folks. It also has one of the more fas...

Peace Comrades! Super excited for a special episode of Within Our Gates. Joining me is Kei Pritsker and Ben Becker, two of the makers of the very important and timely documentary  The Encampments; a film which tells the tale of student uprisings across the country in protest to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The Encampments is currently playing in theatre's Nationwide and I encourage everyone to se...

Peace folks. Excited to once again be in conversation with an old friend, Filmmaker Skinner Myers. We talk this time about the state of independent film, Sean Bakers recent Oscar win, and his statement about indie film and figures like Baker represent a pernicious category indie movie making that is still fundamentally aligned with the imperialist project. We also touch on our experiences as micro...

Extremely honored this week to have Taylor Genovese from Iskra Books  to talk about a truly special text, Alexander Bogdanov's Art and the Working Class . Art and the Working Class is a rare text that we are lucky Iskra has taken on the task of translating and doing an edition for todays reader. This book has massive utility as discussions around class struggle have become once again prevalent and...

Peace Comrades. For our next episode we have Adam Thomas joining for what is the first part of a 2 part series of episodes called Black Noir '92 where we dig into two Black American Film Noirs that hold interesting analysis on American culture in what is supposes to be "The End of History" when it comes to Liberal Democracy. Our first film is One False Move (1992) Directed by Carl Franklin. It sta...

For the first episode of Within Our Gates Theory Corner I take a dive into the structure and inspirations for my new framework of this podcast. I touch on why Third Cinema still matters, Walter Rodney's thoughts around Marxism as methodology, Clyde Taylor's intervention on aesthetics and what does this all mean for the artist who aims to make art a revolutionary weapon. Texts discussed/referenced:...