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Episode 55 – Zola (2021)

The “American” dream is the dream of a new memory.

“Ya’ll want to hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out???????? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”

And so Zola begins. Based on an epic, viral 2015 Twitter thread written by A’Ziah King and dubbed by fans as #TheStory, Zola is INTENSE. We talk through the movie’s representation of sex work, its multiple tonal registers, the stellar performances, and this new era (?) of social media-sourced movie making.

Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.

As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.

From its poets to its industry of spectacle, from Whitman, Pound, and Olson to the Hollywood blockbusters both pre and post-9/11, at the center of the USAmerican imaginary is the dream of creating an artificial memory. -Heriberto Yépez, The Empire of Neomemory.