Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeftRadio.

On today's episode I have on my friend and comrade Michael Workman to discuss his newest

film released through MeansTV called Mean Time.

He also has some other films on MeanTV as well which we'll get to in this episode.

But we talk about his work.

We talk about cinematography more broadly.

We touch on Soviet cinema and American cinema.

Some of the influences there we talk about the cultural malaise that we're in that seems

to only vomit out reiterations, prequels and sequels to movies that used to be interesting

to us and how there seems to be a certain general cultural malaise that is giving rise

to this broader cinematic malaise which is also of course connected to the incentive structures

of capitalism.

We talk about our fathers, mental illness, addiction, how men of that generation in particular

were sort of deformed by capitalism and the way that that manifests especially later

in their lives.

This conversation takes a lot of interesting detours and side roads.

We just touch on a lot of stuff and hopefully overall it's a moving and informative episode

about cinema, the human condition, living under late capitalist conditions and much more.

So without further ado, here's my conversation with Michael Workman who has a new movie,

a new documentary called Mean Time, released on MeansTV as well as his other work on MeansTV,

definitely support MeansTV if you don't already.

Here's my conversation with him about cinema, human storytelling and so much more.

...