Archive Episode - Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014) (with Andrew Whitehurst)

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)

The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!

Chris and Alex welcomed Oscar-winning visual effects artist Andrew Whitehurst to the Fantasy/Animation podcast back in November 2019 for this reflection on the posthumanism of science-fiction parable Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014). Andrew kindly spoke with us about his role as Visual Effects Supervisor on the film (for which he received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 2015), and navigated through Ex Machina’s technologised construction of bodies and the hybrid performance of humanoid robot Ava.

**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**

**As featured on Feedspot’s 25 Best London Education Podcasts**

Suggested Readings

  • Grodal, Torben. 1999. Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Gunning, Tom. 2007. “Moving Away from the Index: Cinema and the Impression of Reality.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 18, no.1 (2007): 29–52.

  • Shanahan, Murray. 2010. Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantGENDER, SCIENCE FICTION, REPRESENTATION, TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITYComment