Also discussed: CAF highlights including Julia Pott’s masterclass, Sketch Showdown antics and The Midnight Walk, festival karaoke traditions, beating the heat at Annecy, teasing Wildwood with Travis Knight, Richard Williams’s posthumous final film Lysistrata, Ricky Gervais’s Alley Cats, Ben’s attempt to get through Charlie Kaufman’s stop-mo-themed novel Antkind, the rise of both AI and the vehement pushback against it through projects including Jorge Gutierrez’s abandoned project Punky Duck and the Annecy furore around Hisko Hulsing’s Danse Macabre.
