Conspirituality - Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 2 | Teal Swan: Art and Artifice (w/Paola Marino)
Aired: 2022-07-18
Duration: 04:09


=== Manipulating Footage? (04:05) ===

[00:00:03]  Welcome to an episode of a Conspiratuality Podcast bonus collection, the Swan Song series, a tour through the paradoxes of Teal Swan, an influencer who embodies the tangled history and whiplash contradictions of our beat.
[00:00:19]  This collection will be accessible first through our Patreon feed, but we will release each episode to the public over time in our regular feed in addition to our Thursday episodes.
[00:00:30]  Topics will revolve around the method, the myth, the impacts and implications of one of the most unsettling conspirituality figures alive.
[00:00:39]  Content warnings always apply for this material.
[00:00:42]  Themes include suicide and child sexual abuse.
[00:00:47]  To our Patreon subscribers, thank you for helping keep our platform ad-free and editorially independent.
[00:00:54]  And to everyone else, thanks for listening, including followers of Teal Swan.
[00:01:00]  We hope this is all useful to you as you consider your relationship to Teal's story and influence.
[00:01:08]  Now, what did you think of The Deep End?
[00:01:12]  Oh boy.
[00:01:14]  Well, I was shocked.
[00:01:18]  First of all, I was shocked at the way they manipulated the footage.
[00:01:28]  Because this is to fit their narrative.
[00:01:35]  Was it very obvious to you?
[00:01:37]  It was very obvious.
[00:01:38]  Absolutely.
[00:01:40]  Because you're a filmmaker and you edit your own work?
[00:01:43]  Yes.
[00:01:44]  Yes, I do.
[00:01:44]  I do, you know, together with others sometimes, but I do anything a lot and I can't recognize it right away.
[00:01:50]  And not only that, like, um, it really, there is like a, when you document, you make a documentary about somebody.
[00:02:01]  I mean, at least that's not the document.
[00:02:05]  That's like a fictional story, but we're real people in it.
[00:02:10]  Right.
[00:02:11]  Uh, so they build it like that, but they forgot that these people are actually existing.
[00:02:16]  These are not actors who shed the role and then they are somebody else who goes home and they have their families and that's it.
[00:02:24]  You know, the movies in the theaters and maybe they forgot about that, but I found that I found a very unethical of them to play with real humans in order to make this movie.
[00:02:40]  So I wouldn't consider that a documentary.
[00:02:43]  Of course, there are certain things that are not manipulated, they're there, and certain moments where, like, there are certain instances that, you know, they show Teal saying things, being maybe mean, or
[00:03:09]  Uh, expressing thoughts that, uh, expressing her anger and stuff like that.
[00:03:17]  And, uh, there are moments where I, uh, when I didn't feel very comfortable with those, with those, you know, with the way she was dealing with certain things in a certain way.
[00:03:30]  So, and those are there.
[00:03:32]  But when you have, so I recognize that this is not cool to me, that she's doing this.
[00:03:38]  It's not cool.
[00:03:39]  It's not cool.
[00:03:40]  Okay.
[00:03:40]  But when you have, but this is not all, Till is not only that.
[00:03:44]  Till is more than that.
[00:03:47]  And they didn't show who else Till is.
[00:03:51]  They just depicted this, this image of a villain.
[00:03:55]  As opposed to Blake and Juliana as the heroes.
[00:04:00]  And that's it.
[00:04:01]  It's very restricted and very limited.
[00:04:03]  It's like a movie.
[00:04:05]  Very entertaining, absolutely, for the people who know these characters.