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  • Please enjoy Episode 20, which was recorded in July 2021. This concludes Season 1 of The Mirror, and after a year's worth of living and change and reflection, I feel ready to release this and to move forward to a new stage of creativity. Season 2, with some major changes will be coming in 2023. Until then, thank you for listening. 


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    Episode Links:

    The Alphabet - David Lynch Six Men Getting Sick - David Lynch Short Films Collection - David Lynch i could write my magnum opus or i could simply go to bed - Savannah BrownCreative Depression - This Jungian Life (Podcast) Small Roads - James Benning Film Collection - James Benning Lars von Trier: The Burden From Donald Duck | Louisiana Channel The Frequency of Fear: Dean Hurley Interview 

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  • Fever Dreams is a miniseries featuring works of fiction, essays and non-fiction read without embellishment or analysis. Literature was my first great artistic love, and I regard it as possibly the richest art form, with its ability to showcase the dark interior of humanity, and traverse time, place and space unlike any other medium. Fever Dreams features a selection of the macabre and the mundane, the fantastical and the concrete, works that have struck me in a meaningful fashion, and that I feel are worth sharing.


    Our sixth dream (and final for this season) is What is a podcast? by Anselm McGovern. McGovern offers a salient reckoning with social realities of podcasts, and their simultaneous alienating and comforting features. The essay can be read here. 


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  • In Episode 19, after an extended life update, I discuss the passing of manga-ka Kentaro Miura and the way that cultural reactions show the range of ways that people respond to such news (in some ways better than others). With this event as a heuristic for contemporary culture, I posit a different way of viewing artists - as people first, separate from their work, and irreducible to the sum total of their creations - and speak about the power and impact of Miura's Berserk series. 


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    Episode Links:

    Kink Drifter - 26" BMX (Video) Marin Alcatraz - 26" Dirt Jumper MTB THERE AND BACK WITH A BIKE - A DAY IN BARCELONA - Matt Jones (Video) Berserk - Kentaro Miura (Deluxe Editions) 

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  • Fever Dreams is a miniseries featuring works of fiction, essays and non-fiction read without embellishment or analysis. Literature was my first great artistic love, and I regard it as possibly the richest art form, with its ability to showcase the dark interior of humanity, and traverse time, place and space unlike any other medium. Fever Dreams features a selection of the macabre and the mundane, the fantastical and the concrete, works that have struck me in a meaningful fashion, and that I feel are worth sharing.


    Our fifth dream is Van Gogh, the Suicide Provoked by Society by Antonin Artaud, the French writer, poet, dramatist, visual artist, essayist, actor and theatre director, who himself was interned in asylums for nine years, at the end of which time he wrote this moving essay. This reading as an abridged version of selected passages from the full essay which can be read here. 


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  • In this special episode, I am joined by my sister Ebony who creates in a range of mediums from fashion design, collage, and film, and we discuss subjectivity in art, the power of raising questions without positing answers, and the magic of viewing art out in the real world. We touch on a range of film work, including Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, Memories of Murder and Parasite by Bong-Joon Ho and the work of Wong Kar Wai, as well as discussing the importance of curating your own taste, making your art your way, and the necessity for curiosity. 


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    Episode Links:

    Il Maestro by Martin Scorsese (Harper's Magazine) THE GAP by Ira Glass (Video) 

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  • In Episode 17 of The Mirror, I extol the virtues of a practice of reflection and lingering as part of a meaningful life, and a healthy approach to creating art. This extensive look at my own practice is a recap on the previous 6 months of changes in my life, from quitting social media and developing a healthier relationship to communication technology, as well as expanding my artistic horizons through watching films and reading fiction literature. I offer in this episode how all of this has informed my practice for the better, along with my view of what separates humans from mere animals, before sharing some insights from Frank Herbert's brilliant novel Dune.


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  • Episode 16 of The Mirror is a special episode, one devoted entirely to discussing Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, a film from 2012 that is both a wonderfully crafted work of cinema, and a powerful lens through which to look at our highly-subjectivised times. The Master, in both cinematography and performance, exemplifies a rare restraint in Western cinema, and takes a beautifully naturalistic approach, finding more in common with the European arthouse than contemporary Hollywood cinema. This study is spoiler free, and goes into detail in the form and process of cinema.


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  • Fever Dreams is a miniseries featuring works of fiction, essays and non-fiction read without embellishment or analysis. Literature was my first great artistic love, and I regard it as possibly the richest art form, with its ability to showcase the dark interior of humanity, and traverse time, place and space unlike any other medium. Fever Dreams features a selection of the macabre and the mundane, the fantastical and the concrete, works that have struck me in a meaningful fashion, and that I feel are worth sharing.


    Our fourth dream is A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, a short story that was first published in 1928, and details the tragic reflection on life by a hunger artist at the nadir of his career and public popularity. The story presciently illuminates the way our contemporary world views artists, the transience of culture, and modernity's spiritual death. 


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  • In Episode 15 of The Mirror, I talk about the importance of taking risks as an artist, being prepared to fail, to do things that are unpopular, and to experiment - especially in the homogenised desert of our contemporary culture. I detail the 5 year-long making of David Lynch's debut feature film Eraserhead, and the long, lingering process of the painter Antonio López García, as well as discussing the impact of early silent cinemas innovators and the importance of sharing your work with others as a way of understanding what makes you unique in your process and final works.


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    Episode Links:

    David Lynch: Eraserhead Stories (Making of Documentary)Antonio López García (Painting)Stormzy - Wiley Flow (Music Video)Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927) - Full MovieA Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès (1902) - Full MovieAV Festival 12: Slow Cinema Discussion with Ben Rivers and Lav Diaz

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  • In Episode 14 of The Mirror, I sit in my backyard and ponder the reality of when creativity becomes routine, what this means, and what role this serves for us as artists.


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  • Fever Dreams is a miniseries featuring works of fiction, essays and non-fiction read without embellishment or analysis. Literature was my first great artistic love, and I regard it as possibly the richest art form, with its ability to showcase the dark interior of humanity, and traverse time, place and space unlike any other medium. Fever Dreams features a selection of the macabre and the mundane, the fantastical and the concrete, works that have struck me in a meaningful fashion, and that I feel are worth sharing.


    Our third dream is Good For Nothing, by Mark Fisher. This essay details the mental health suffering of the writer and cultural critic Mark Fisher, whose work has been incredibly influential over the past decade in left-wing thought, as well impacting the culture through his relationship with musicians and artists like The Caretaker and Burial. In Good For Nothing, Fisher ties his own experiences to the collective depression we all experience under contemporary capitalism, making the necessary connection that our mental health crises are political.


    This essay was published in 2014 via The Occupied Times. Tragically, Mark Fisher took his own life in 2017 after a lifetime of struggling with debilitating depression. His work remains as poignant and prescient as ever and his book Capitalist Realism is essential reading. On a very personal note, this essay describes nearly exactly the reality of my life as I have experienced it, so for this reason as well, Fisher's work is incredibly important to me.


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  • Thank you for listening to The Mirror - your support has been incredible so far, and it has been heartening to hear the response to this project. All future episodes of The Mirror are available on my Patreon for just $4 a month (or more if you're feeling generous), so please sign up at www.patreon.com/justinreid.

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  • From a small slice of paradise, in Episode 13 of The Mirror, I discuss my personal experience that led me to the path of becoming an artist, and pose the questions I feel one must ask themselves when determining if the art life is just a hobby, or a complete lifestyle choice. I get very philosophical, attempting to describe art and it's role for humanity, as well as the benefits of working with physical mediums, and the many various forms that cinema can take. I have shared in the episode links a selection of incredibly experimental, avant-garde, and revolutionary films from throughout film history, that I feel any artist would get a lot from.


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    Episode Links:

    A Trip to the Moon - George Méliès (1902) - Complete FilmMeshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren (1943) - Complete FilmThe Alphabet - David Lynch (1968) - Complete Film + CommentaryStellar - Stan Brakhage (1993) - Complete FilmOuter Space - Peter Tscherkassky (1999) - Complete FilmHinterlands - Scott Barley (2016) - Complete Film

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  • Following a free-form narrative thread centred around our seeking of pleasure and catharsis within entertainment, Episode 12 of The Mirror is the strongest manifesto yet of my beliefs about art, the current cultural and material conditions we find ourselves in, and the alternatives available to us. I speak about the political cooptation of art by commercial interests, and the way this limits our imagination of the forms that art can take, as well as how our lives have become completely mediated by the frictionless fantasies offered to us by the Internet. Touching on the film work of Bela Tarr and Michael Haneke, which form a counterpoint to the dominant commercial format and language of Hollywood Cinema, I return to the necessity of needing to develop your own craft, beyond the reach and influence of the monoculture.


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    Episode Links:

    How TV Became Respectable Without Getting Better - Matt Christman (Current Affairs)Forward Left: An Interview with Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House - Lucy Schiller (Counterpunch)The Turin Horse - Bela Tarr (2011) - Complete FilmFunny Games - Michael Haneke (1997) - Complete Film

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  • Fever Dreams is a miniseries featuring works of fiction, essays and non-fiction read without embellishment or analysis. Literature was my first great artistic love, and I regard it as possibly the richest art form, with its ability to showcase the dark interior of humanity, and traverse time, place and space unlike any other medium. Fever Dreams features a selection of the macabre and the mundane, the fantastical and the concrete, works that have struck me in a meaningful fashion, and that I feel are worth sharing.


    Our second dream is The Flash, by Italo Calvino. This short story was published as part of a posthumous collection of previously unreleased work collected from throughout the author's life, titled Numbers in the Dark. Calvino's work is widely published, and you can find his work at book stores and libraries worldwide.


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  • In this special episode, we look at the life, work and philosophy of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky and his films have been a major inspiration for me, and I share with you the story of his life, as well as exploring his philosophy on cinema as an art form through a series of speeches and writings taken from throughout his career. Tarkovsky viewed cinema as an art form that is as important to humanity as painting, poetry, music, and philosophy, and this is evident in his films as well as in the way he lived his life.


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    The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.


    Andrei Tarkovsky's Films:

    Ivan's Childhood (1962)Andrei Rublev (1966)Solaris (1972)Stalker (1979)Mirror (1975)Nostalghia (1983)The Sacrifice (1986)

    Episode Links:

    Transcendental Style in Film | Paul Schrader | TIFFFunny Games - Michael Haneke (Full Movie)David Bowie: to be an artist is to be "dysfunctional" | Charlie Rose

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  • We finish our Dosing Culture reading series with the second part of Chris Crawford's illuminating essay, which delves deeper into how contemporary modes of creative production are built around our psychotically-networked culture, as well as situating the historical role of art as that which points to universal truths and the possibility of a truly human world. As with the previous episode, I'd highly recommend you read both parts of the essay in full, linked below, and make some time to reflect upon how this relates to your own consumption habits and creative process.


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    Episode Links:

    Dosing Culture, Part Two - Chris Crawford (Damage Mag)Applied Roganism - Elia Tommaso (Damage Mag)

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  • In Episode 9 of The Mirror, I share with you an essay by Chris Crawford about the way contemporary culture is produced and consumed in an endless stream of doses, and the psychological effects this has on us. I read the first part of this illuminating and fantastic essay in full, and then share my thoughts and reactions to it, going into detail how after first reading it I had a coming to god moment in regards to my own life, habits and experience of consuming culture. This work truly puts into words that which I have felt but could not articulate, so I'm excited to share it with you and I hope you get something from it as well. I highly urge you to read it in full (the link is below), and I will be sharing with you my reading of Part Two in the next episode.


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    Episode Links:

    Dosing Culture, Part One - Chris Crawford (Damage Mag)Justin Reid - Contact formJustin Reid - YouTube Channel (Subscribe here)

    List of Films Recommended:

    Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (Watch on YouTube)Un Chien Andalou - Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí (Watch on YouTube)House - Nobuhiko Obayashi (Purchase from the US at Criterion Collection, or watch on Amazon US with a VPN)Chungking Express - Wong Kar Wai (Stream on MUBI Brazil with a VPN)Bacurau - Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles (Stream on MUBI UK with a VPN)Perfect Blue - Satoshi Kon (Harder to track down - but it's out there for those eager to find it)La Jetee - Chris Marker (Watch on YouTube)Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman (Watch on YouTube)Punch-Drunk Love - Paul Thomas Anderson (Stream on Stan)Blue Velvet - David Lynch (Stream on Stan)

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  • In Episode 8 of The Mirror, I ruminate on the double-edged sword of entertainment, touching upon the work of Sigmund Freud and his Pleasure Principle, and how this affects the way we both view and create contemporary works of art. One of the dangers of our entertainment-based culture is a watering down and limiting of our imagination, and the creations that are birthed from it. For the main portion of the episode, I then outline my approach to making space in your life for Intentional Art Experiences - how I've largely extricated myself from the endless streams of content in search of richer, more rewarding and challenging works both screen-based and in the material world that inform my own practice and imagination.


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    The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.


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    The Mirror Theme is written, produced and performed by Annalisa Vetrugno, with drums contributed by Giacomo Greco.

    You can find their work here:

    Annalisa Vetrugno - Commissions | Instagram

    Giacomo Greco - Instagram


    View my portfolio, get in touch or enquire about commissions via my website: www.justinreid.com.au


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  • Fever Dreams is a miniseries featuring works of fiction, essays and non-fiction read without embellishment or analysis. Literature was my first great artistic love, and I regard it as possibly the richest art form, with its ability to showcase the dark interior of humanity, and traverse time, place and space unlike any other medium. Fever Dreams features a selection of the macabre and the mundane, the fantastical and the concrete, works that have struck me in a meaningful fashion, and that I feel are worth sharing.


    Our first dream is Dagon, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Written in 1917, it was the first of many stories by Lovecraft which are considered part of his Cthulhu Mythos, featuring cosmic entities and unimaginable horrors. If you enjoy this story, I'd highly recommend his longer tale The Colour Out Of Space, which I regard as his finest writing and storytelling, and which I may consider reading for a future dream. You can read his stories online at the H.P. Lovecraft Archive.


    Support the project at www.justinreid.com.au/support.

    Become a sustaining member, and support independent art and film for as little as $40 a year.


    The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.


    Subscribe to my YouTube channel for full episodes and exclusive segments featuring original, meditative imagery: Justin Reid - YouTube


    Become a sustaining member and support the creation of compelling works of art and film, while receiving a range of great benefits, including:

    Access to exclusive films, artworks and behind the scenes material on my Membership platform that you can't experience anywhere elseA 10% discount across my store, including all of the premium films I produce, andHigher tier subscribers even get free access to all of my premium films before anyone else

    Sign up now at www.justinreid.com.au/support.


    The Mirror Theme is written, produced and performed by Annalisa Vetrugno, with drums contributed by Giacomo Greco.

    You can find their work here:

    Annalisa Vetrugno - Commissions | Instagram

    Giacomo Greco - Instagram


    View my portfolio, get in touch or enquire about commissions via my website: www.justinreid.com.au


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.