Episode recorded: March 21st, 2026 (03/21/2026)

This is mostly a clip-less episode.

Jay and Ryan are back with talking about A Grand Mockery, an Australian movie shot with Super 8mm films and set in the city of Brisbane, Australia. From there on, they discuss Australian film industry, how feature films rarely shot on 8mm films, and what would be the New Yorker animation equivalent to it. In the midst of it, the movie’s directors Sam Dixon and Adam C. Briggs enter in and tell the creative process and inspirations behind A Grand Mockery.

A Grand Mockery is currently distributed by Yellow Veil Pictures. It is now available on video-on-demand and blu-ray. You can purchase the physical copy on Vinegar Syndrome. 

Follow Adam and Sam on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/adamcbriggs/
https://www.instagram.com/dickos_variety_hour/

And also, please help our co-editor Jessie get her short film Affluenza funded: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aidanserviss/affluenza-a-satirical-short-film

Jessie described it as a satirical short film thematically similar to HBO’s Succession with an absurdist element. It’s about the spoiled son of an upper class family who commits a crime that could put his father’s political ambition in jeopardy, so the family hire a doctor to diagnose him for an affidavit. It’s inspired from the real-life case of Ethan Couch, who got away with vehicular manslaughter through non-existence diagnosis called Affluenza. If you like Succession the tv show and interested in the real-life case of Ethan Couch, please help Jessie to get her project off the ground on Kickstarter. The link to the crowdfunding campaign is in the description, and it is currently live until April the 2nd.

And support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ReAnimateTHISPodcast

Intro music: WANDERLUST (Celest3 mix) by Celest3 –https://celest3.bandcamp.com/track/wanderlust-celest3-mix (CC BY-SA 4.0 –https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Ad break music: Early Riser by Kevin MacLeod – https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Best_of_2014_1461/Early_Riser (licensed under a Attribution 3.0 International License)

Ending music: Arizona Green Tea by Stuffy Doll –https://stuffydollband.bandcamp.com/track/arizona-green-tea (used it with a permission)

Narrator: Dom Valentini

Audio Editor: Jay Whang

Movies, shorts, and works that we have discussed (spoilers ahead!):

• A Grand Mockery (2024), directed by Adam C. Briggs & Sam Dixon
• Eraserhead (1977), directed by David Lynch
• Lost Highway (1997), directed by David Lynch
• Mulholland Drive (2001), directed by David Lynch
• DumbLand (2002), directed by David Lynch
• The Nightingale (2018), directed by Jennifer Kent
• The Babadook (2014), directed by Jennifer Kent
• The Loved Ones (2009), directed by Sean Byrne
• Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008), Directed by Mark Hartley
• Lesbian Space Princess (2025), directed by Emma Hough Hobbs & Leela Varghese
• Harvie Krumpet (2003), directed Adam Elliot
• Bluey, created by Joe Brumm
• Sable: A Ghost Story, created by Ethan M. Aldridge
• YOLO (2020-2025), created by Michael Cusack
• Bushworld Adventures (2018), directed by Michael Cusack
• 1981 (2026), directed by Andy & Carolyn London
• Tango (1981), directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński
• Running Up That Hill [Kate Bush Cover] (2019), directed by Meg Myers
• The End of Evangelion (1997), directed by Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki