Special Guest: Peter HamesGuest Co-Hosts: Jim Vendiola, Samm Deighan
Czechtember 2025 wraps with Jan Švankmajer's Conspirators of Pleasure (1996), a delirious, dialogue-free plunge into fetish and surrealism. Mike teams up with filmmaker Jim Vendiola and critic Samm Deighan to unravel the tangled lives of six Prague eccentrics whose private obsessions—ranging from papier-mâché contraptions to elaborate role-play—collide in hilariously unsettling ways. The result is a darkly comic meditation on desire, ritual, and the pleasures of the bizarre, filtered through Švankmajer’s singular stop-motion, tactile textures, and Surrealist imagination.
We're joined by Peter Hames, editor of The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer: Dark Alchemy.
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Music:
"La Boheme: Act I: Che Gelida Manina" - Mario Lanza
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