The Treat: India Donaldson
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Director India Donaldson’s 2024 feature film debut 'Good One' is deceptively simple: a teenager, her father, and her father’s friend go camping in upstate New York. But the film goes into an unexpected direction, telling its story with tension and subtlety. For her treat, she cites a 2003 sculpture by the visual artist Shimabuku, whose simplicity evokes unabashed joy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Treat. I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
| 0:02.6 | Writer director, India Donaldson's 2024 film Goodwin moves from the demands of a camping trip to the rigors of emotional transition. |
| 0:11.4 | For her treat, her encounter with a sculpture that placed her in a new state. |
| 0:16.3 | My name is India Donaldson, and this is the treat. |
| 0:45.5 | Music is India Donaldson and this is the treat. Maybe 10 years ago, I saw this artwork by the Japanese artist Shimibuku. It's a pedestal with a TV on it, a video, |
| 0:50.5 | and front of the TV is a collection of handmade ceramic pots that are sort of connected on a rope, |
| 1:00.0 | sort of like a string of ceramic pots, like a large necklace almost. |
| 1:04.0 | And in the video shows the artist himself in Italy on a small boat being taken out to sea, |
| 1:13.0 | and basically he's put this device that he's made, these pots on the rope, into the ocean. |
| 1:21.1 | And one by one, he takes the pots out and looks inside. |
| 1:37.7 | Oh. He takes the pots out and looks inside. And he gets towards the end. |
| 1:39.2 | It might even be the last pot, and there's an octopus inside. |
| 1:42.7 | And it's like unbridled joy and excitement when he finds this octopus. |
| 1:49.6 | Ha! |
| 1:50.1 | Yeah! |
| 1:50.4 | Ah! |
| 1:53.1 | Yeah! |
| 1:53.4 | Oh! |
| 1:54.1 | Ah! |
| 1:54.9 | Ah! |
| 1:55.9 | Ah! |
| 1:59.0 | Wow! |
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