October 13, 2026: Minisode: Cinema Ephemera

But along those lines, let's talk about the curation of this a little bit, because if it's the first installment, that means that you've come up with, like, several categories that these clips could fit underneath, and for your first one you've chosen The Human Machine.

How did you go about curating this particular segment of this ongoing project?

We started with...

This is the first one.

Mm-hmm.

And we started with about 500 films that I just culled from my collection, and we made a big pile, and we spent, I don't know, it was a year, maybe two, watching through stuff, and talking about it, and making notes, and having later conversations, and thinking about it some more, and certain themes just started to speak to us, and we didn't want the usual stock themes, but some of these things just made themselves evident.

And our plan is to do one a year.

Mm.

This was the first one.

I think we probably have about seven or eight of them in us.

We watch through everything.

We figure out which films could go with which themes, and then, and it starts to coalesce into a set list.

The films start speaking to each other, others fall out of the way, and then when we have about 90 minutes Around a certain theme, we call that a show

And even though we do have this theme, it, it appears in different manifestations, and it's not a didactic, it's not a lecture, it's not, it's not-

For sure

... we, we don't have an argument we wanna get across.

Um, it's more like a dance, so that you find a, a, a piece that you love, and then that piece suddenly speaks to you in some way, feels like it wants to go right after the next piece.

And, and then we just play around with it till it just feels right in our gut, I think

And sometimes the theme is obvious, sometimes it's a little bit more of a-

Yeah

... a second, uh, uh, puzzle or contest to figure out how it fits into the theme

But along those lines, let's talk about the curation of this a little bit, because if it's the first installment, that means that you've come up with, like, several categories that these clips could fit underneath, and for your first one you've chosen The Human Machine.

How did you go about curating this particular segment of this ongoing project?

We started with...

This is the first one.

Mm-hmm.

And we started with about 500 films that I just culled from my collection, and we made a big pile, and we spent, I don't know, it was a year, maybe two, watching through stuff, and talking about it, and making notes, and having later conversations, and thinking about it some more, and certain themes just started to speak to us, and we didn't want the usual stock themes, but some of these things just made themselves evident.

And our plan is to do one a year.

Mm.

This was the first one.

I think we probably have about seven or eight of them in us.

We watch through everything.

We figure out which films could go with which themes, and then, and it starts to coalesce into a set list.

The films start speaking to each other, others fall out of the way, and then when we have about 90 minutes Around a certain theme, we call that a show

And even though we do have this theme, it, it appears in different manifestations, and it's not a didactic, it's not a lecture, it's not, it's not-

For sure

... we, we don't have an argument we wanna get across.

Um, it's more like a dance, so that you find a, a, a piece that you love, and then that piece suddenly speaks to you in some way, feels like it wants to go right after the next piece.

And, and then we just play around with it till it just feels right in our gut, I think

And sometimes the theme is obvious, sometimes it's a little bit more of a-

Yeah

... a second, uh, uh, puzzle or contest to figure out how it fits into the theme