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Talkhouse Writing and conversations about music and film, from the people who make them.

Talkhouse is a media company and outlet for musicians, actors, filmmakers, and others in their respective fields. Artists write essays and criticism from firsthand perspectives, speak one-on-one with their peers via the Talkhouse Podcast and Talkhouse Live events, and offer readers and listeners unique insight into creative work of all genres and generations. In short— Talkhouse is writing and conversations about music and film, from the people who make them.

"I’ve been making feature documentary films for over 30 years, and in nearly every film I have made, there’s a woman cra...
03/06/2026

"I’ve been making feature documentary films for over 30 years, and in nearly every film I have made, there’s a woman cracking an offhanded joke about the violence she has narrowly escaped. It took me a long time, five films in, to realize that I was focusing on this aspect of other women’s stories as a way to slowly peel back the layers of my own buried story. Escape was always subtext, until my most recent film ..." -- Ruth Leitman

https://talkhouse.com/that-girl-in-my-films

"I never want anyone to feel like they need to read a book to understand what I'm making" — Emily Wells and Pleasure Sys...
02/06/2026

"I never want anyone to feel like they need to read a book to understand what I'm making" — Emily Wells and Pleasure Systems catch up about incorporating references in their work, David Wojnarowicz, Fire Island, and more

The friends catch up about irony in music, Fire Island, the q***r lineage of their work, and Leave It in the Sand.

"After my brother came to the screening of my new feature Forastera at SEMINCI in Valladolid, Spain, he asked me why I h...
01/06/2026

"After my brother came to the screening of my new feature Forastera at SEMINCI in Valladolid, Spain, he asked me why I had lied in the Q&A when asked if the film was autobiographical. I looked at him strangely: 'What do you mean? I made the story up.' His eyes narrowed and he smiled. 'What about the language stuff?' " -- Lucía Aleñar Iglesias

https://talkhouse.com/forastera-shape-shifting-through-language

Talkhouse is proud and grateful to have received a 2025  for our work on Fela Kuti: Fear No Man. Endless thanks to our w...
01/06/2026

Talkhouse is proud and grateful to have received a 2025 for our work on Fela Kuti: Fear No Man. Endless thanks to our wonderful partners, the Kuti family, and to everyone who has listened.

30/05/2026

"Give me the shape and I'll take it."

Acclaimed actress Tatiana Maslany joined us to kick off the first official season of Nobody's Ever Asked Me That, and shared why she relates to one of her favorite scenes from A Woman Under the Influence.

Nobody's Ever Asked Me That is available wherever you download your favorite podcasts, and on our brand-new Substack! Listen now:

https://nobodyseveraskedmethat.substack.com/p/nobodys-ever-asked-me-that-tatiana

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