A Place For Film: Episode 69 - A Conversation on Speed Racer with Margot Stacy a.k.a "mise-en-scène"

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On this very special 69th episode of A Place For Film, I finally had the immense pleasure of sitting down with much wanted and long awaited guest Margot Stacy, the lovely and effusive mind behind the now retired "tees-en-scène" apparel shop (which we did an entire farewell episode for: here) but also the very active and enthralling @mise_en_scene page on Instagram. She joins me for an hour long conversation on Lily and Lana Wachowski's magnum opus Speed Racer. We get into the nitty gritty of how Speed Racer serves as a major turning point not just in the Wachowski's career but in film history as a whole. We get into topics such as kinetics, aesthetic assault/death, postmodernism, transness as it relates to modes of creation and the joys of spectacle.

If you want to here more thoughts on the "aesthetic assault" present in Speed Racer please pop over to the IU Cinema Blog and read my piece on Speed Racer, here:

https://blogs.iu.edu/aplaceforfilm/2022/03/21/speed-racer-and-the-assault-on-aesthetics-of-the-20th-century/

Speed Racer will screen this Friday, March 25th at 7pm as apart of the IU Cinema's "Staff Selects" series. Please visit the IU Cinema website for more details and to purchase your tickets for what I promise will be a very special evening:

https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2022-spring-program-friday-march-25-700pm

You can find Margot's Instagram account, @mise_en_scene, were she finds the beauty and spectacle in fashion, arthouse/populist cinema, and performers, here:

https://www.instagram.com/misc_en_scene/