Special Guest: Ana KokkinosGuest Co-Hosts: Spencer Parsons, Rob St. Mary
Spencer Parsons and Rob St. Mary join Mike to unpack Ana Kokkinos’s unflinching 2006 adaptation of Rupert Thomson ’s novel, The Book of Revelation, a film that refuses easy provocation, using intimacy, trauma, and performance as tools for something far more unsettling.
The story follows Daniel (Tom Long), a dancer who vanishes during a mundane errand for his girlfriend Bridget (Anna Torv). What initially plays as a mystery gradually reveals itself as a confrontation with sexual violence, shame, and the long aftermath of violation—rendered without sensationalism and without moral shortcuts.
Mike also sits down with director Ana Kokkinos to discuss the making of the film, her approach to depicting male sexual assault, and her insistence on pushing past eroticism toward emotional truth. The conversation explores how The Book of Revelation challenges audience expectations, destabilizes gendered narratives of victimhood, and stands as one of the most difficult--and necessary--Australian films of its era.
This episode wrestles with discomfort, representation, and empathy, asking what it really means when cinema turns its gaze on trauma.
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Music:
"The Secret Garden" - Vassilis Tsabropoulos
"Abbaon Fat Tracks" - Tricky
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