Cult & Culture Podcast Episode 56 feat. Annapurna Sriram (Director, actor, writer of Fucktoys)

Cult & Culture Podcast Episode 56 feat. Annapurna Sriram (Director, actor, writer of Fucktoys)

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August 22, 2025 · 1h 22m · Episode 56

About this episode

Episode 56 features Annapurna Sriram discussing her debut film Fucktoys and various societal themes.

Cult and Culture Podcast Episode 56 features director, actor, and writer of the film Fucktoys, Annapurna Sriram. This is the second in a five-episode series of podcasts Luke and Justin filmed at the Oak Cliff Film Festival in Texas. Fucktoys is Sriram's debut film as a director-- an adventurous, ambitious, tragic dark comedy set in New Orleans in the fictional world of "Trash Town," which is something of a lush, magical, simultaneously dystopian American wasteland that seems to occupy various decades in time. The episode discusses these various directorial decisions and the importance of intense preparation when creating it, as well as "The shitification era of Capitalism," the choice to have a trans love interest in the film while simultaneously NOT centering their transness as a part of the narrative, the prevalence of patriarchy and the necessity of sex work in today's society for women, the general decay of America, and the ways in which Gen Z may save us all.

People in this episode

Guest: Annapurna Sriram

Topics covered

  • directorial decisions
  • preparation in filmmaking
  • trans representation
  • patriarchy
  • sex work
  • Gen Z

Keywords

  • Fucktoys
  • Oak Cliff Film Festival
  • Trash Town
  • dark comedy
  • Capitalism
  • America

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Fucktoys

Books & works: Fucktoys, Cult and Culture Podcast, Trash Town

Places: Texas, New Orleans, America

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