Filmmaker Raoul Peck and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen talk about their street to creating artwork that’s political and subversive.
Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck highlights the roots of violence and inequality right this moment. He’s finest identified for his Oscar-nominated documentary – I Am Not Your Negro about civil rights icon James Baldwin – and racism in america, and for his Peabody-winning Exterminate All of the Brutes, a sweeping indictment of colonialism and genocide.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professor and writer whose spy novel The Sympathizer received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was just lately made into an HBO sequence. In his fiction and non-fiction books, he investigates his personal refugee journey, the politics of reminiscence and the results of US wars overseas.
On this episode, Peck and Nguyen talk about their political coming of age, what Gaza tells us in regards to the world right this moment, and the way they use their work to problem and unsettle.
