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Shoga Speaks

Robert Philipson

Join Filmmaker Dr. Robert Philipson as he explores the intersection of Black and Queer identities, Black-Jewish interrelations, and Music.

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25:21

Mr. and Mrs. Pumpkin

Shoga Speaks ·

2025/09/24

My mother's first cousin, Marion Michelle, had grown up in the first decades of the 20th century chafing against the bourgeois restrictions of Cleveland Jewish society. She went to the University of Chicago where Thornton Wilder frightened her out of serious literary effort and learned photography. She also got involved with the Communists there as a result of a trip she had made to the Soviet Union. The combination of visual arts and left-wing politics fused into a determination to become a ...

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35:26

The Family Dog

Shoga Speaks ·

2025/08/20

Our choice of pets says a lot about who we are … and we are all very different. There are cat people; there are dog people; there are bird people; there are reptile people and on and on. The famlly pet can mark a child’s development for better or worse, but if a dog or cat lives out the full term of its life, it is a part of that family for 12 or 14 or 19 years. These days most marriages don’t last that long. Growing up in the relative innocence of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, the Philipson...

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30:31

HIV Negative

Shoga Speaks ·

2025/07/21

Website: www.shogafilms.com; Instagram: shoga_films; Facebook: facebook.com/shogafilms; Twitter: twitter.com/shogafilms

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25:43

The Jewish Roots of John Garfield

Shoga Speaks ·

2025/05/15

In 1947, when John Garfield starred in one of the great film noirs of all time, Body and Soul, he was a Broadway and Hollywood legend who had racked up a filmography of impressive achievement in spite of having to work within the constraints of the studio system. He brought Method acting to the silver screen, a shocking breath of fresh air that earned him an Oscar nomination for his debut supporting role. He was the first to embody the antihero persona later associated with James Dean and Ma...

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37:56

Which Road Did You Come From?, Part Two

Shoga Speaks ·

2025/04/28

Our protagonist, finding himself back home and at loose ends after graduating from college, has hit upon a Life Plan concocted with a friend while both were tripping on acid -- a rural egalitarian commune. He visits his old college housemates, Carol and Alan, building a retirement home for Alan's parents in the Santa Ana mountains. He proceeds to recruit them to the idea with little difficulty but is then overcome with an illness that forces him back to his home in Pasadena. Once there, and f...

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54:44

Which Road Did You Come From?, Part One

Shoga Speaks ·

2025/04/18

In the fall of 1972 it happened. I graduated from college. This wasn’t unexpected and yet I was unprepared. I was not aware that the train of events which I thought of as 'my life' had been running along pre-built tracks: elementary school, middle school, high school, college. I did not realize that once I left the last station, there were no more tracks." And so I went home to Pasadena to live with my parents. Little did I know I was a trailblazer for the next generations of college gr...

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43:10

The Artificial Grandma

Shoga Speaks ·

2025/03/17

My grandmother on my mother's side was the only grandma I had—my other grandma died the year I was born. She was in my life for my first 35 years, so she had an impact. Initially, she was accompanied by my grandfather, Meyer, who was a joy to be around. (Jeanette, not so much.) When Meyer died, Jeanette continued her life in Chicago. She'd come out to California to visit—for longer periods of time now—and to me, she was "grandma," a known quantity. But I didn't know her at all. What wa...

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43:01

The Old House

Shoga Speaks ·

2025/02/19

When does a house become a home? How does a house become a home? In the recent L.A. fires, around 10,000 houses were destroyed. When a house is also a home, much more goes up in flames than the structure and its contents. The house itself has a dialectical relationship with its inhabitants, expressed through furniture, decor, and a greater or lesser life force that infuses a building with its own ambiance. There are sad houses, happy houses, sterile houses and quirky houses. Dr. Philip...

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23:46

The Killing of Canada Lee

Shoga Speaks ·

2025/01/22

From 1934 to 1951, Canada Lee was the most famous and revered Black actor of his day, associated -- and frequently starring -- with every landmark African American Broadway production. He broke barriers again and again by being cast in non-Black productions.Unlike Paul Robeson and Ethel Waters, African American actors who also had huge midcentury careers, Canada Lee is virtually unknown. His early death at the age of 45 can be attributed to the blacklist of the postwar Red Scare which also bu...

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40:06

The Greatest Jewish Boxer You've Never Heard Of

Shoga Speaks ·

2024/12/06

But have you heard of any Jewish boxers? Did you know that almost 30% of professional boxers in the 20s and 30s were Jewish? As for Jewish athletes, you may have heard of Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, but why not Barney Ross, one of the few boxers ever to clinch a championship in three weight classes (lightweight, junior welterweight, and welterweight)? After retiring from a boxing career of 71 wins -- 22 by knockouts --, Ross applied for an age waiver to join the Marines in 1942, kil...

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39:23

The Wine of Remembrance

Shoga Speaks ·

2024/11/13

"I was an American again, had been for the decade since we had returned from our sojourn in France. Nothing, it seemed, had stuck from my wonder years in the City of Light except for something of the language I had learned to speak by the end of our time there." How does an eleven-year old, knowing only the suburban life of Pasadena, experience Paris as his new home? Terror? Bafflement? Boredom? Exhilaration? Flashes of transcendence? All of the above. But the transcendence was communica...

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55:33

A Salvage Job, Part Two

Shoga Speaks ·

2024/10/23

Sam and Daniel are in Israel, circa 1969. They are on a kibbutz, learning Hebrew in the morning and working for their room and board in the afternoon. Sam follows Daniel in his effort to deepen his Jewish identity. They go to Mount Tabor, site of a battle between the Israelites and the Canaanites, spend a weekend at a Chassidic yeshiva where Daniel is ardently proselytized by a recent convert. Finally they make pilgrimage to the Western Wall, the holiest shrine in Judaism, where Sam confronts...

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44:34

A Salvage Job, Part One

Shoga Speaks ·

2024/10/15

America 1968. Everything was up for grabs. All passion and creativity seemed to gush from the counterculture. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive/But to be young was very heaven." I was young, 18, and enrolled as an undergraduate in the fourth year of the great experimental campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The spirit of the 60s was everywhere, in our music and our politics. and our firm belief that the Establishment promoting the war in Vietnam and threatening us with ...

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17:13

The Goops

Shoga Speaks ·

2024/09/24

What's in a bedtime story? More than you might imagine. As we were growing up, my father introduced his version of imaginary creatures, the goops, into our household and family life. Created as negative role models to teach manners to Victorian children, the goops first saw life in books of moralistic doggerel published in 1900 and after. "But it was their bad behavior that led my father to adopt them for his own." In this episode you will also be treated to one of my father's Prince Bagel st...

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63:21

The Life and Lesbian Times of Alberta Hunter

Shoga Speaks ·

2024/08/13

Dr. Philipson interviews playwright and lesbian activist Jewelle Gomez about the life of the famous blues singer, Alberta Hunter, and the play Jewelle wrote based on that life.Website: www.shogafilms.com;Instagram: shoga_films;Facebook: facebook.com/shogafilms;Twitter: twitter.com/shogafilms

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25:44

Still Life

Shoga Speaks ·

2024/05/27

"I have concluded from the melancholy nature of my subsequent development that the artifacts hung up on a child's wall can have a permanent effect on his life."So begins the essay on the role the Art played in my formation, an evolution spanning Southern California, France, the groovy Sixties, Africa. "Still Life" will reveal the malefic influence of "the original Joe Vogel," plumb the mysteries of “Ten Nights in a Barrel,” revel in the salvation of Dutch realism -- and picture this, so much ...

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12:14

Xmas

Shoga Speaks ·

2024/04/19

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18:10

"Skinny" -- The Black babysitter -- but so much more...

Shoga Speaks ·

2024/02/28

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32:52

Shylock, Uncle David and Me

Shoga Speaks ·

2023/12/13

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20:21

Director Philipson discusses his doc "Body and Soul:...

Shoga Speaks ·

2023/08/10

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