It is playtime in the realm of moving pictures with Steph, Ben & Bucks, traversing the vortex of strange connections, unusual histories and lunatic ideas that have made cinema the amazing art that it is. Each week we'll take a topic and see what buried treasure we can unearth as we wander across a wealth of ideas and perspectives. The video store may be gone, but the Video Vortex lives forever.
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Friday Oct 16, 2020
Episode 04: Witches
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Continuing our October season of the strange and spooky, our triumvirate coven take a stroll through the woods with a variety of witches from all walks of cinema. An incredibly diverse figure both in fiction and history, we consider some of the socio-cultural implications of this evolving archetype and discuss our favourite witchy films for Old Hallow's Eve!
Please note: We swapped the episode order to do a full month of Halloween themes, hence the reference to discussing Häxan in a previous episode. Our first November episode will be on documentaries and will feature more Häxan talk!
Vortex Rewind Recommendation:
The 1983 regional American tale of witchcraft, EYES OF FIRE.
Transformations, in 1972 a collective of women from Vermont create an experimental short depicting a coven in daily life.
Recommended Sources:
Brother Ben's Letterboxd List of Witches in Film
Film School Rejects: Witches on Screen
Criterion: Häxan The Real Unreal
Music created by Fadge @McNandos & remixed by Ben Volchok.
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