Archiving Life through Experimental Film with C. Jacqueline Wood

And new micro/Maker episodes with Daijana Wallace and Mahdis Golzar Kashani

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Tyler Kline
June 13, 2025

🍃 Loose Leaf Transmissions – Weekly Dispatch

I think it’s fair to acknowledge that most of you reading this probably listen to my podcast because you’re interested in music and hearing what composers have to say about their work. And, you might think, “What would I get out of hearing Tyler talk with an experimental filmmaker?”

I’m here to tell you: the latest episode of music/Maker, with my guest C. Jacqueline Wood, has to be one of my favorite conversations I’ve ever had. Like, period. On or off my podcast. And if you’re interested in arts of ANY kind, you will likely get a lot out of listening to this.

Yes, we talk at length about her process and how she does what she does as an experimental filmmaker (emphasis on experimental there). But we also talk about what it’s like to navigate today’s world as an artist of any kind, and what various challenges and successes look like in both film and music.

By the way, while I don’t often spend significant time speaking with my guests about specific works (at any length, at least), so much of this conversation – and the most compelling parts of it – stem from discussions around Jacqueline’s latest film, This is a movie. I would encourage you to check that film out before and after your listen to our conversation (it’s only ~7.5 minutes). View it here.

🎧 New on the Feed

🎙 music/Maker with Tyler Kline

Now streaming: Archiving Life through Experimental Film with C. Jacqueline Wood

Filmmaker and visual artist C. Jacqueline Wood creates intimate, deeply personal work across moving image, installation, and documentary forms. Her work has screened nationally, including at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, and she was the founder of The Mini Microcinema — a non-profit space dedicated to showcasing independent and experimental film.

In this episode, Jacqueline reflects on the emotional honesty at the core of her creative process. She and host Tyler Kline discuss the role of light and duration in her work, and how her latest film became a meditation on unfinished projects, infertility, and creative loss. She reflects on navigating the tension between analog and digital media, processing personal experience through film, and embracing artistic freedom outside traditional systems.

Learn more about Jacqueline and view her work at https://www.projectplane.com/

New episodes every other Thursday. Subscribe now!

🎙 micro/Maker

micro/maker 009: Emerging Stronger from an Artistic Slump (featuring Daijana Wallace)

Composer Daijana Wallace reflects on how the surge in visibility post-2020 challenged her to balance authenticity with opportunity, ultimately helping her reclaim artistic confidence on her own terms.

micro/Maker 010: Composing Through Story and Imagination (featuring Mahdis Golzar Kashani)

Composer Mahdis Golzar Kashani shares how she composes like a filmmaker, drawing on memory, emotion, and imagined scenes to craft vivid, story-driven music.

Episodes are released every Tuesday and Friday. Subscribe now!

🔜 Coming Up Soon

Next week on micro/Maker, two episodes about shaping sound through philosophy, performance, and personal discovery.

Sean Hamilton shares how composers like Helmut Lachenmann, Stuart Saunders Smith, and Morton Feldman inform his timbral, rhythmic, and spatial thinking – and how those ideas shape the hybrid setups and “suitcase of goodies” he brings to each performance.

And, Vanessa Ague reflects on how her listening habits evolved in her early years, from a contrarian love of classical music to discovering Radiohead’s Kid A, and how that journey opened her ears to the emotional depth of experimental sound.

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That’s a wrap for this week. I’ll be back with more soon. And, until then, take care.