Caché: We Did Not Send the Tapes with guest Bettina Johnson

This week we discussed Caché, the 2005 French film by Austrian director Michael Haneke, starring Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, and Maurice Bénichou, and suggested by our guest Bettina Johnson.

Caché is about a well-off French family terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. This terror reverberates from the Paris Massacre of 1961, which had only recently been acknowledged by the French government when the film was made more than four decades later. Through the course of the film, we see how this unspeakable moment in history and the horrors of colonialism haunt generations.

Spoilers: guilt, colonialism, disagreeing about how to pronounce "Haneke," Paul Gilroy doesn't buy it.

Bettina Johnson is a co-founder and current steering committee member of Liberation Library, a prison industrial complex abolitionist books-to-incarcerated youth project. They're also a facilitator and member of other abolitionist campaigns like Defund CPD. Donate to Liberation Library's GoFundMe! And follow Bettina on Instagram @bettinajaywalker and Twitter @lesypersound.

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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige

Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley