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"I find my best songs are usually written when I'm extremely confused" — Circuit des Yeux and Poliça catch up ahead of their show at Knockdown Center later this month

https://talkhouse.com/polica-and-circuit-des-yeux-tap-into-the-rawness

"I’ve been making feature documentary films for over 30 years, and in nearly every film I have made, there’s a woman cracking an offhanded joke about the violence she has narrowly escaped. It took me a long time, five films in, to realize that I was focusing on this aspect of other women’s stories as a way to slowly peel back the layers of my own buried story. Escape was always subtext, until my most recent film ..." -- Ruth Leitman

https://talkhouse.com/that-girl-in-my-films

Today on Nobody's Ever Asked Me That, filmmaker Zia Anger joins Nick to talk about being ahead of your time creatively, college parties, nuclear war survival plans, and why she related to Justin Bieber's Coachella set.

https://nobodyseveraskedmethat.substack.com/p/nobodys-ever-asked-me-that-zia-anger

Adam Schatz is back with a special bulletin on Morgan Wallen's alleged piano-flipping and the latest instance of "Nord shame"

https://talkhouse.com/correction-morgan-wallen-did-not-flip-a-piano

"I never want anyone to feel like they need to read a book to understand what I'm making" — Emily Wells and Pleasure Systems catch up about incorporating references in their work, David Wojnarowicz, Fire Island, and more

Pleasure Systems and Emily Wells Want to Know Each Other Forever - Talkhouse The friends catch up about irony in music, Fire Island, the q***r lineage of their work, and Leave It in the Sand.

"After my brother came to the screening of my new feature Forastera at SEMINCI in Valladolid, Spain, he asked me why I had lied in the Q&A when asked if the film was autobiographical. I looked at him strangely: 'What do you mean? I made the story up.' His eyes narrowed and he smiled. 'What about the language stuff?' " -- Lucía Aleñar Iglesias

https://talkhouse.com/forastera-shape-shifting-through-language

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