Episode 64: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz and Eric Hynes on The Viewing Booth

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s been a while since I’ve really focused on a documentary on the show, and a terrific opportunity came up with the release of The Viewing Booth. The Viewing Booth is a movie that’s been at festivals but for whatever reason, did not make its way to theaters until now. Which is unfortunate because it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen about how we sort out what we think and feel about the hundreds of things we are shown each and every day—intellectually, politically, emotionally. So I was very happy to talk with the film’s director, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, and Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image, which is giving The Viewing Booth a two-week theatrical run. We talk about how the movie works and the questions it raises with its simply but ingenious concept. One final note: as you’ll hear, this is my first episode in a long time that I have recorded in the great outdoors, so enjoy the mild breeze. You can support this podcast and read show notes with links at: rapold.substack.com Opening music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass