Brett Story
Sound accompaniment: some construction noise outside, paper rustling, an email/text ping, sound of a cat trying to get in the closed door room
Drinks: Coffee (left her house to get it! counts as special!)
Some things that joined us in the conversation: New Orleans Film Festival, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, The Hottest August, Land of Destiny, Brett’s book (Prison Land), Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross, True/False Film Festival, Tabitha Jackson, Le Joli Mai, Chris Marker, Herzog, John Berger, Berger’s story of the CIA’s involvement in the cultural Cold War, The Stuart Hall Project by John Akomfrah, I Am Not Your Negro, federal executions, 2.2 million people in cages, climate catastrophe, Danielle Varga, “part of what I discover every single time I make a film… people are always more generous and more complicated than we expect them to be (54:15),” Lovers Rock by Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock soundtrack, Chantal Akerman, Black Audio Film Collective, Jem Cohen’s Lost Book Found, Deborah Stratman, O’er the Land, Peter Mettler’s Picture of Light, Jenny Offill’s Weather, Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Hearsay Audio Arts Festival