Fantasy/Animation Podcast - Everything Everywhere All At Once

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Fantasy/ Animation Podcast: hosted by Christopher Holliday and Alex Sergeant. Christopher Holliday researches animation history and digital media at King’s College London (UK). Alexander Sergeant is a Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at University of Portsmouth (UK), specialising in the history and theory of fantasy cinema. Each episode, they look in detail at a film or television show, taking listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation.

https://www.fantasy-animation.org/all-episodes/episode-118-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-daniel-kwan-daniel-scheinert-2022-with-david-sorfa

Period24 Apr 2023

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  • TitleFantasy/Animation Podcast: Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) (with David Sorfa)
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletFantasy/Animation Podcast
    Media typeWeb
    Duration/Length/Size60 minutes
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date24/04/23
    DescriptionPrepare for more multiverse madness as Chris and Alex dive into the world of Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, 2022), the Oscar-winning absurdist sci-fi action adventure that engages head-on with the question of what it means to be human set against the backdrop of forking path storylines, a sumptuous mise-en-scène of colliding visual styles, and a maelstrom of digital VFX. The special guest for Episode 118 is Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh and editor-in-chief of the journal Film-Philosophy, who specialises in philosophy’s relationship with cinema, Existentialism, phenomenology, the work of Jacques Derrida, and the presentation of thought and thinking in cinema. The trio cover a variety of topics appropriate to a film that slingshots spectators between multiple times and places, including what Everything Everywhere All At Once establishes in relation to feelings of worthlessness, apathy, and the power of choice; images of freedom and responsibility, and what it means for humanity to act in good faith; Michelle Yeoh’s star persona and her relationship to late-1990s/early-2000s Hollywood kung-fu cinema; the reflexive depiction of multiple femininities at breaking point; turns to chaos and fictional world theories rooted in what is made ‘possible’; and how a film like Everything Everywhere All At Once can add to and ‘do’ philosophical enquiry in positing how things might be otherwise than they are.
    PersonsDavid Sorfa