Final episode in the Satoshi Kon mini-season. Yimi and Spencer close out the trilogy with Paprika (2006) — a team of psychiatrists invents a device, the DC Mini, that lets people enter each other's dreams. When the devices are stolen, dreams begin merging ...

Satoshi Kon mini-season, episode two. Yimi and Spencer discuss Millennium Actress (2002) — a documentary crew visits a reclusive former actress, and her memories pull them inside the films she made across a lifetime. If Perfect Blue was about identity writ...

Perfect Blue and Parasocial Horror: Kicking Off an Electric Shadow Satoshi Kon Mini-SeasonElectric Shadow hosts Yimi and Spencer begin a three-episode Satoshi Kon series by discussing Kon’s 1997 film Perfect Blue, following their prior episodes on Linklate...

Electric Shadow Discusses Linklater’s Before Sunrise Hosts Yimi and Spencer introduce their podcast Electric Shadow, which focuses on long conversations about films rather than reviews, and discuss Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise while watching the ...

For our third episode, we're in the middle of the trilogy and the middle of the afternoon, in Paris, in real time. Before Sunset (2004) gives Jesse and Céline one hour and a half. They haven't seen each other in nine years. He has a flight to catch. They ...

We started Electric Shadows with the toughest film in the trilogy. Before Midnight is the third Linklater Before film — the one most people find difficult to sit with. Jesse and Céline are together now, in Greece, with kids and years of accumulated life b...

For our first episode, we picked the movie that — between the two of us — has the strangest origin story. Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (Masaaki Yuasa, 2017) follows one unnamed girl through a single night in Kyoto — a drinking contest with a possibly immo...