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FILMEXPLORER Podcasts (English)

FILMEXPLORER - expand the experience
Artificial Intelligence
Animation
Basel, Switzerland
Locarno
Filmmaking
D Is For Distance
Glasgow
Basel
Dry Leaf
Mesh Festival
Uprooted
Downriver, a Tiger
Toronto, Canada
Anthropocene
Everything Else Is Noise
Football
Studio Pararaum
Roman Zürcher
Borrachero Dreams
Art and Technology

«Filmexplorer – expand the experience» is an online platform (since 2016) with multimedia original contents (texts, audios, videos) that are dedicated to the critical discussion of art films. AUDIO-PRODUCTION: On this channel you find our audio-productions about a handpicked selection of art films. The audio-productions are mainly interviews and Q&A with filmmakers discussing about their art works... more

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Puck Verkade invites us into the universe of her film Uprooted: an absurd journey through animation and metamorphosis that challenges our relationship with non-human worlds.

The podcast production has benefited from to the financial support of the D... more

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Between magical realism and cinéma du réel, multidisciplinary artist Felipe Castelblanco presents his film, Borrachero Dreams: a fascinating discussion on how cinema can break away from colonial frameworks to envision plants as active agents of multi... more

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As artistic director of Mesh Festival 2026, Teresa Retzer joins us to share her insights on how technological frameworks can be repurposed into true infrastructures of care.

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A transtemporal tale on care and humanism. At Bildrausch Filmfest Basel 2026 Filmexplorer met Gabriel Azorín to discuss his «Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes».

Interview: Christoph Oertli, Giuseppe Di Salvatore

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Recent Guests

Puck Verkade
Dutch interdisciplinary artist and arts educator based in Berlin
Episode: Interview with Puck Verkade, Dutch artist and arts educator based in Berlin
Felipe Castelblanco
Multidisciplinary artist, researcher and filmmaker
Episode: Interview with Felipe Castelblanco, multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and filmmaker
Teresa Retzer
Artistic director of MESH Festival 2026
MESH Festival
Episode: Interview with Teresa Retzer, the artistic director of Mesh – Biennial of Art & Technology Basel
Gabriel Azorín
Spanish filmmaker, director of Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes
Gabriel Azorín - Filmmaker
Episode: adical Aesthetics | Gabriel Azorín on his «Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes»
Darius Šilenas
Main actor in The Visitor, Lithuanian actor and editor trained with a focus on acting
The Visitor (Vytautas Katkus)
Episode: Darius Šilenas on Vytautas Katkus' «The Visitor» and the New Wave of Lithuanian Cinema
Katia Pascariu
Romanian actress known for Stella Popovic in Sorella di Clausura
Filmmaker Ivana Mladenović's project
Episode: Katia Pascariu on her extraordinary role in Ivana Mladenović' «Sorella di clausura»
Francisco Barreiro
Awarded actor, director and artist; featured in Everything Else Is Noise
Filmmaker/Actor
Episode: A Film Family and Co-authorship | Francisco Barreiro on «Everything Else Is Noise»
Sabine Fehr
Actress from Switzerland
Actor
Episode: A Film Family and Co-authorship | Francisco Barreiro on «Everything Else Is Noise»
Giuseppe Di Salvatore
FILMEXPLORER representative
Film Festival/Media
Episode: A Film Family and Co-authorship | Francisco Barreiro on «Everything Else Is Noise»

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Jeannette Wolf
Film interviewer and festival discussion host
Giuseppe Di Salvatore
Film interviewer and festival discussion facilitator

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Interview with Teresa Retzer, the artistic director of Mesh – Biennial of Art & Technology Basel
Q: AI and immersive installations rely on energy-intensive infrastructures and resource extraction, including water for data center cooling. How do you address this contradiction within a festival that uses technology to question its impact on the environment?
Retzer discusses Tatjana Wall's artwork, which demonstrates the water needed to cool a server, and points to decentralization as a way to reduce energy use.
Interview with Teresa Retzer, the artistic director of Mesh – Biennial of Art & Technology Basel
Q: As AI chatbots and Quizzling take on roles traditionally associated with human relationships, how does Mesh distinguish between technology that supports care and technology that exploits loneliness and emotional intimacy?
Retzer says the festival considers technology neither inherently positive nor dystopian, and focuses on whether it supports care, encourages physical connection, and includes people who feel excluded by digital systems.
Interview with Felipe Castelblanco, multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and filmmaker
Q: How do you approach these forms of knowledge through art and cinema without reducing them to Western scientific or cinematic frameworks?
He says he works collaboratively, including with Indigenous co-investigator Agenan Kinchoko Hibiyoi, and develops the film through shared experience rather than a script. His approach is to listen, avoid reductive labels and place community knowledge on terms equal to scientific knowledge.
Interview with Felipe Castelblanco, multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and filmmaker
Q: How did this story come about? What interested you in bringing these two very different landscapes together?
Castelblanco was interested in territorial research and the similarities between the ancient Andean and Alpine landscapes. The film connects them through weather patterns, plant migration and a fictional journey.
Interview with Puck Verkade, Dutch artist and arts educator based in Berlin
Q: Has motherhood led you to reconsider the limits of the individual body and the very notion of autonomous self?
Verkade says she recognized the connection retrospectively, describing birth and separation as a frightening, touching, funny and tragic transformation. She also discusses postpartum depression and the physical, psychological and social changes of becoming a parent.

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Interviews and live festival conversations examine art films through the choices and experiences behind them. Filmmakers, actors, cinematographers, and documentary subjects discuss creative process, from collaborative and improvisational methods to camera, sound, casting, editing, and the use of real locations. Film critics and journalists add context, connecting individual works to wider questions about memory, identity, community, politics, and the forms cinema can take.

Regular contributors Jeannette Wolf and Giuseppe Di Salvatore lead conversations, sometimes joined by film critics and other members of the editorial team. The focus is on independent and international cinema, with particular attention to work that crosses boundaries bet... more

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