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Within Our Gates

Within Our Gates is a podcast on Cinema and the arts from a Marxist perspective. Hosted by Filmmaker and Professor Mtume Gant, bi-weekly he has guests where they cover cinematic works or scholarship on the arts and always from a perspective focused on revolutionary analysis and dialectical materialist principles.

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01:56:31

The Spook Who Sat By The Door w/Adam Thomas

Within Our Gates ·

2025/11/01

Peace Comrades! This episode is actually one I recorded October of last year, but was only exclusive on my Patreon, but it was too good of an episode and too important in terms of topic to NOT release to you all. So here it goes. I am joined once again by my friend Adam Thomas to talk about the then recent rerelease of The Spook Who Sat by Door, and how this film has a shaky reputation with the Black professional managerial class. We also dig into how Spook got made, the differences between the film

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01:11:34

Report From the Battlefront. Third Cinema in a Second...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/10/18

Peace Everyone. Im back with another solo episode talking about the world premiere of my feature length film The Hand that Feeds, and my thoughts around the current state of independent cinema. I wrestle with the contradictions of Second Cinema and how under its heavy hand a truly radical cinema can never materialize. I also speak on what I believe is the need for a Revolutionary Arts International, and address some (unprincipled) criticism thrown my way. Looking forward to hearing comments on this

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01:28:01

Listener Questions Answered! A Special Within Our...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/10/03

Peace Folks. For this episode I am doing something a bit different. I decided to solicit questions from my listeners and answer them! And boy did I get some fantastic questions and hopefully the answers I give are up to snuff. I tackle things from the Hollywood response to the genocide in Gaza, my opinion of Fourth Cinema, how art fits into the Marxist concept of the superstructure, the work of David Lynch and some other things. This is something Ill be looking to do at least a few times a year. I

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02:31:30

Entertainments Imperial Training Grounds w/ Samantha...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/09/11

Joining me on Within Our Gates is Animator and Scholar to Samantha Youssef to talk about the entertainment industry and how it uses often initially well meaning artists to uphold Hollywood's imperial messaging system. Samantha and I take a deep and personal dive into our experiences in the training grounds of arts/entertainment, we compare and contrast our similarities and differences but ultimately come to conclusions that all the methods point in the same pernicious direction. Its a great talk

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02:33:12

Mississippi Masala and the Cross Cultural Conundrum...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/08/29

Joining me for this episode is writer and political theorist Sudip Bhattacharya as we dig into Mira Nair's cult favorite film Mississippi Masala. We dig into its attempt to have commentary on the conundrums of cross cultural exchange and how the film fits into the trajectory of liberal diversity projects in American Cinema during the early 90's. We also fit this into work Sudip has done on the topic of culture from a socialist/Marxist perspective in order to deepen our convo on what was/is missing

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01:55:50

Within Our Gates - Capitalism, Tech and the Artists...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/08/07

How are the arts in the vaunted "age of tech" affected? And how do we study these effects with a materialist approach? To answer these questions I have with me Dwayne Monroe who is a technologist with decades of experience in the US and Europe. He intimately knows how technologies the media describes as ethereal really work, where they come from, and how they are used in the multinational corporations and governments dominating our lives. He applies what he calls a Noir Marxist lens (stylistically

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02:21:53

Decoding the False Notions of Black Hollywood w/ Chad...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/07/24

Is it Black Cinema or Black Hollywood? To me this is an essential question and for this reason I had to bring on Filmmaker Chad Murdock to talk about with me. We dig into a piece that Chad written called The False Notions of a Blackened Image where he does a material analysis on images that are routinely dispersed currently throughout popular Black movies. We also speak about his recently released film, Phantom of a Killing, and dig into the origins of Chad's development as an artist, his

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01:55:29

Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/07/10

This week I'm joined by Julia Alekseyeva to talk their book Antifascism and the Avant- Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960's published by University of California Press. Julia is an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania as well an artist and activist. We have a fantastic conversation about the book which covers the leftist filmmakers of Japan and France who helped revolutionize the documentary form (and cinema overall) and what does this

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01:51:05

70's Class Struggle: Analyzing Paul Schrader's Blue...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/06/26

Peace Comrades! For this episode I am joined by two great guests who I plan to have here regularly to discuss Paul Schrader's 1978 film, Blue Collar starring Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel. Jared Ball is a professor of communication studies and Africana / Black Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Ball is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!” and a co-founder of Black Liberation Media. Jared Ware is the co-host of the anti-imperialist podcast

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01:50:58

Black Hollywood's Sins w/ Marcus Pinn

Within Our Gates ·

2025/06/13

This week I have my dear friend Marcus Pinn from the longstanding film blog Pinnland Empire with me. Marcus and I have a more freewheeling talk focused around written pieces that come from the both of us, one is Marcus's review of the film Sinners and the other is my critique from a few years ago of the film Get Out. Where they connect is Marcus's (on-point) analysis that Black Hollywood has entered a period of "Get Out-Sploitation" films, and how Sinners, amongst others, fits the mold. This is a

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01:47:44

Coppola's The Conversation w/Yasmin Nair

Within Our Gates ·

2025/05/29

This week I'm happy to have Yasmin Nair back with me to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's classic film The Conversation. The idea came to us after the recent passing of Gene Hackman and both of us speaking about the respect we have for much of the work Hackman did as an actor over the years. It led us to one of his finer films, The Conversation, which is also one of Coppola's very best works. In our investigation about the film, we dig into conversations around the surveillance state, the American

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01:55:26

The Cinematic Dialectic. Paul McIsaac on his work...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/05/19

Very special episode this go' round. I have with me Paul McIsaac one of the principal actors in the cinema of the late great Robert Kramer. I take a tour with Paul not only about his work with Kramer, but on the radical tendencies of the 60's, how radical artists looked to integrate with the movement, the different tendencies of the "New Left" and the postmortem that followed which created rich works. All of this is done in an effort to understand the social context of which Kramer's films was made,

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01:41:32

Black Noir 92 Part II, Goin' Deep Cover w/ Adam Thomas

Within Our Gates ·

2025/04/28

Peace Comrades! For this episode we conclude our Black Noir 92 double bill with Bill Duke's Deep Cover. Joining me again is Adam Thomas, and we dig into Duke's then timely work about the myths of the drug trade. Deep Cover is a fascinating work as it deals with not only with the issues fake war, but also the complications of capitalist ascension for non white folks. It also has one of the more fascinating depictions of Jewishness and how it pertains to whiteness ever depicted through the character

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01:14:43

Within Our Gates - The Encampments w/ Kei Pritsker...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/04/11

Peace Comrades! Super excited for a special episode of Within Our Gates. Joining me is Kei Pritsker and Ben Becker, two of the makers of the very important and timely documentary The Encampments; a film which tells the tale of student uprisings across the country in protest to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The Encampments is currently playing in theatre's Nationwide and I encourage everyone to see it as it sets the record straight and fights the media propaganda which looked to depict the student

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02:07:00

Sean Baker and The Golden Elevator Ruse w/ Skinner Myers

Within Our Gates ·

2025/03/31

Peace folks. Excited to once again be in conversation with an old friend, Filmmaker Skinner Myers. We talk this time about the state of independent film, Sean Bakers recent Oscar win, and his statement about indie film and figures like Baker represent a pernicious category indie movie making that is still fundamentally aligned with the imperialist project. We also touch on our experiences as micro-budget free range filmmakers, and the conundrums that currently exist. Looking forward to hearing folks

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01:40:10

The Communist Arts, Exploring Alexander Bogdanov's...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/03/10

Extremely honored this week to have Taylor Genovese from Iskra Books to talk about a truly special text, Alexander Bogdanov's Art and the Working Class. Art and the Working Class is a rare text that we are lucky Iskra has taken on the task of translating and doing an edition for todays reader. This book has massive utility as discussions around class struggle have become once again prevalent and questions of how does the artist situate themselves within the struggle towards awakening the

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01:46:58

Black Noir '92 Part 1, Digging into One False Move w/...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/02/24

Peace Comrades. For our next episode we have Adam Thomas joining for what is the first part of a 2 part series of episodes called Black Noir '92 where we dig into two Black American Film Noirs that hold interesting analysis on American culture in what is supposes to be "The End of History" when it comes to Liberal Democracy. Our first film is One False Move (1992) Directed by Carl Franklin. It stars Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Billy Bob Thornton, and Michael Beach. One False Move is a bit of a cult

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01:07:22

Theory Corner - Towards a Revolutionary Cinema

Within Our Gates ·

2025/02/10

For the first episode of Within Our Gates Theory Corner I take a dive into the structure and inspirations for my new framework of this podcast. I touch on why Third Cinema still matters, Walter Rodney's thoughts around Marxism as methodology, Clyde Taylor's intervention on aesthetics and what does this all mean for the artist who aims to make art a revolutionary weapon. Texts discussed/referenced: Toward a Third Cinema by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino Marxism and Africa by Walter Rodney The

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01:25:19

Within Our Gates Episode 1 - Liberal Struggle...

Within Our Gates ·

2025/01/24

For the first episode w version of Within Our Gates podcast our host Mtume break's down three contemporary documentaries, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, Israelism and Dahomey. He also explains the format of the cinematic works end of the show and in the process finds a unison in these films that expose a pernicious strain in current films that hold "political" content and how they expose liberalisms long hand in pacifying radical history. To get a jump on the shows a week early and also recieve bonus

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