Russell Brown is one of my favorite people in the world. His films include Race You to the Bottom (2005), The Blue Tooth Virgin (2008), and Loren & Rose (2022).

Episode 17: Conversation With Jay Rosenblatt

May 7th, 2024 58m 19s

Jay Rosenblatt is a great filmmaker and one of my closest friends. His last two films were both nominated for oscars. His films include "Short of Breath," "Human Remains," "The Smell of Burning Ants," "Phantom Limb," "The Darkness of Day," "Whe

Episode 15: Conversation with Jamie Hook

Apr 4th, 2024 58m 22s

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Episode 13: Conversation with Lindsay Burdge

Mar 9th, 2024 1h 8m

Lindsay Burdge played Mandy in Seasons 2, 3 (still unreleased), and 4 of The Show About the Show. She also acted in my adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses (also still unreleased). She also acted in Joe Swanberg's Easy, Hannah Fidell's A Teache

Episode 11: Conversation with Bill Brown

Feb 21st, 2024 49m 11s

Bill Brown is one of my favorite filmmakers. He is also the author of Dream Whip, my favorite zine. We started a video correspondence in 2001 in which we sent video letters back and forth to each other until 2005.

Episode 9: Conversation with Eleonore Hendricks

Feb 5th, 2024 53m 55s

Eleonore Hendricks is an actress and casting director who played herself in The Show About the Show. She also plays Molly Bloom in my not-soon-to-be-released adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Episode 7: Conversation with Jacques Servin

Jan 22nd, 2024 46m 49s

Jacques Servin is one of the founders of the Yes Men, a prankster activist group whose work was profiled in The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix The World (2009), and The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014). We also co-taught a class at the New School

Episode 5: Conversation with Bianca Giaever

Jan 4th, 2024 1h 2m

Bianca Giaever is a filmmaker and podcaster. I highly recommend her podcast Constellation Prize and especially the episodes called "Two Years with Franz," "The Crossing Guard," and "Caveh is God."

Episode 4: Conversation with Kathy Joyce

Dec 20th, 2023 1h 15m

Kathy Joyce is one of my favorite writers. We used to be a couple and collaborated on the podcast: "I Tried Recording Myself All Day Every Day For 365 days But It Was Destroying All My Relationships So I Started a Daily Audio Journal Instead Bu

Episode 3: Conversation with Richard Edson

Dec 7th, 2023 50m 2s

Richard Edson is an actor, musician, photographer and writer. He acted in "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Platoon" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." He used to play drums for Sonic Youth. We also wrote an unproduced script together many years ago.

Episode 1: Conversation with Maxwell di Paolo

Nov 28th, 2023 41m 53s

Maxwell di Paolo is a filmmaker and sound recordist. We collaborated on "365 Stories I Want to Tell You Before We Both Die" and he did all the sound engineering for "I tried recording myself all day every day for 365 days but it was destroying