{"id":108,"date":"2026-04-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/?post_type=podcast&p=108"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:57:27","slug":"episode-5-lsd-2-with-eleni-palis","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/podcast\/episode-5-lsd-2-with-eleni-palis\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 5 – LSD 2 with Eleni Palis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When authenticity is marketed like a brand and \u201creality\u201d is performed for the camera, LSD 2 <\/em>asks: what happens when we can\u2019t trust what we see? Replicating the visual language of news broadcasts, reality TV, and social media feeds, Dibakar Banerjee\u2019s LSD 2<\/em> drops us into a reality shaped by deepfakes, AI-generated images, and constant surveillance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode of Watch Next<\/em>, we\u2019re joined by Dr. Eleni Palis, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to unpack these questions and discuss why they feel more urgent than ever. Together, we trace how today\u2019s media landscape echoes ideas filmmakers have been grappling with for decades, from Orson Welles\u2019 Citizen Kane<\/em> to Akira Kurosawa\u2019s Rashomon<\/em>. And like them, we look at the past to understand our future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Works Discussed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LSD 2  <\/em>(Dibakar Banerjee, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizen Kane <\/em>(Orson Wells, 1941)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rashomon <\/em>(Akira Kurosawa, 1951)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When authenticity is marketed like a brand and \u201creality\u201d is performed for the camera, LSD 2 asks: what happens when we can\u2019t trust what we see? Replicating the visual language of news broadcasts, reality TV, and social media feeds, Dibakar Banerjee\u2019s LSD 2 drops us into a reality shaped by deepfakes, AI-generated images, and constant […]","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/watchnext\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2026\/04\/2026-03-31_Watch-next_Episode-five_eleni-palis_master.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:41:01","filesize":"56.33M","filesize_raw":"59067610","date_recorded":"2026-04-03 08:30:01","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[40,7,42,39,45,8,38,37,44,43,41],"categories":[],"series":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-108","1":"podcast","2":"type-podcast","3":"status-publish","5":"tag-ai","6":"tag-bollywood","7":"tag-deepfakes","8":"tag-dibakar-banerjee","9":"tag-hindi","10":"tag-indian-cinema","11":"tag-love-sex-aur-dhoka","12":"tag-lsd-2","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-reality-tv","15":"tag-streaming","16":"series-watch-next","17":"entry"},"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":72,"post_author":"105","post_date":"2026-02-27 18:15:23","post_date_gmt":"2026-02-27 18:15:23","post_content":"\n

Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez Lozoya<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is Assistant Professor of Instruction\u00a0at The University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in World Cinema, primarily Indian cinema, women filmmakers, and streaming platforms. Her first book,\u00a0Female Lead: India's Women Filmmakers in the Age of Netflix<\/em>, is slated for publication in 2026 by Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eleni Palis is an Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of the book Classical Projections: The Practice and Politics of Film Quotation <\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Episode 5 – LSD 2 with Eleni Palis<\/a><\/blockquote>