Another Kind Of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol And Nostalgia Podcast

The first episode of our Paul Robeson Acteurist Oeuvre-view series has a high context-to-text ratio, as we introduce one of the most important figures in entertainment and political activism of the 20th century. The two movies we look at, Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul (1925) and Kenneth Macpherson's Borderline (1930), by auteurs from radically different backgrounds with radically different aims, provide a fascinating glimpse of the spectrum of possibilities for independent cinema in the late silent era.  Time Codes: 0h 00m 30s:      Brief Introduction to Paul Robeson 0h 08m 53s:      BODY & SOUL (1925) [dir. Oscar Micheaux] 0h 34m 03s:      BORDERLINE (1930) [dir. Kenneth Macpherson] References: Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary by Gerald Horne “The Homesteader” article in The Believer by Will Sloan +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunda