Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening

to The Important Cinema Club. And today we are talking about a heavy subject, so I should say that

right from the get-go, we are discussing the films of Anne Charlotte Robertson, and they deal with suicide, depression, self-harm.

You know, if you're listening and you're very sensitive to that, I would maybe skip this

episode.

But she is somebody who I was not aware of until about two weeks ago.

Somebody wrote in to recommend the films, and then, of course, I checked ladderboxed

and found out that, oh, everyone I respect has seen these movies and loves them already.

I've heard from other listeners that she's very popular online with certain cinefiles who are younger than us.

She's popular in Discord channels. She's popular on whatever, you know, subterranean means of cinenophilia, you know, file sharing, that sort of thing.

Often with people who are young, people who have experienced depression or who are bipolar and have identified with the themes and feelings in her films.

And I think the reason for that is that her magnum opus is a, you know, very pure and direct form of what we consume now

as videos on social media.

Of her, like, talking directly to the camera, they're diary films.

But she's very direct.

They're also very quickly edited as well with a bunch of thoughts.

Almost like it's part of that TikTok generation.

Oh, my goodness. You're a teenager, and you see that, like it's part of that TikTok generation. Oh my goodness.

You're a teenager, and you see that, and it's already speaking a visual language that you

understand, but I think it also feels more real because of the time and place it was filmed

and even just the analog media that it was captured on.

Now, there's not too much to say about Anne Charlotte Robertson's life and backstory,

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