The Theodore Gimeno Podcast: Recent Episodes
Theodore Gimeno
The Theodore Gimeno Podcast is hosted by Theodore Gimeno, a French/American writer and film director. This podcast breaks down the artistic, cultural, historical, philosophical and conceptual ideas of cinema through the reading of articles and papers written by Theodore Gimeno. Listen to discover the work of filmmakers from around the world and engage in depth with one of today's most important and influential art forms.
In this episode, I talk about the early 20th century movement of Dadaism in reference to René Clair's film 'Entr'acte' (1924) and Francis Picabia's ballet show 'Relâche'. More specifically, I focus on the Dada aesthetic and the core ideas of film experimentation, the notions of ambiguity and the merging of realities in Art.
In this episode, I talk about Alejandro González Iñárritu's film Babel (2006) and Albert Kahn's global archiving project The Archives of the Planet (1909-1931) in reference to British sociologist Roland Robertson's concept on globalisation. More specifically, I focus on Robertson's reflection that ‘globalisation as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole’’.
In this episode, I talk about Vittorio De Sica's film Bicycle Thieves (1948) in reference to critic André Bazin's response article 'Bicycle Thief' on the film and on the emergence of neorealism in post-WWII Italy. More specifically, I focus on Bazin's reflection that ‘Bicycle Thieves is one of the first examples of pure cinema. No more actors, no more story, no more sets, which is to say that in the perfect aesthetic illusion of reality there is no more cinema’.
In this episode, I talk about theorists Solanas & Getino's concept of Third Cinema and the idea that a film could operate as a ‘detonator or pretext’ through looking at Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène’s film Borom Sarret (1963).