{"podcast":{"title":"Trylove","slug":"trylove-241033","podcast_index_feed_id":241033,"rss_url":"https://pinecast.com/feed/trylove","website_url":"https://bsky.app/profile/trylovepodca.st","image_url":"https://storage.pinecast.net/podcasts/covers/37a14aeb-0d27-4671-b6be-e7c067c1d4c0/Trylove_Show_Art_2024_1800.jpg","author":"Trylove","episode_count":393,"summary":"Minneapolis-based repertory film podcast.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T00:21:03.013672+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trylove-241033"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 371: GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND (1985)","slug":"episode-371-gwen-and-the-book-of-sand-1985","published_at":"2026-02-24T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trylove-241033/episode-371-gwen-and-the-book-of-sand-1985","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trylove-241033","url":"https://r.zencastr.com/r/pinecast.com/listen/a1bc1e33-0cda-4015-b288-01ac3ab59c0d.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3","audio_url":"https://r.zencastr.com/r/pinecast.com/listen/a1bc1e33-0cda-4015-b288-01ac3ab59c0d.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3","summary":"Jean-François Laguionie’s GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND is maybe a little too strange to fully understand, but its juxtapositions and style leave help it get so much more from its 67 minutes than a lot of full-length features can manage. A young girl named Gwen joins a tribe of desert nomads in a world littered with gigantic, recognizably earth-bound objects. Gwen falls in love with Nokmoon, a boy whose strange powers get him abducted by the ethereal creature that prowls the dunes by night. Gwen and Rosaline, the tribe’s matriarch, set out across the uncharted wastes to bring back the young boy. In this episode — our last on the Trylon’s series on ‘80s animated sci-fi/fantasy, we gush over gouache, ponder the meaning of finding meaning in a story as abstruse as this one, and play a game where we try to guess what game Cody’s even trying to get us to play. Give to these causes in need during ICE’s occupation of Minnesota: Support Minnesotans defending their communities from ICE: https://www.standwithminnesota.com/ @sanctuarysupplydepot: Mutual aid group in Mpls getting basic necessities to our houseless neighbors https://linktr.ee/sanctuarysupplydepot @mplsmutualaid: Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors: https://linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid ISAIAH, an interfaith group fighting for racial and economic justice in MN: https://secure.everyaction.com/G8TCnxFlE0qd9zlUEYjjeg2 Show love to North Minneapolis families in crisis: https://www.gofundme.com/f/show-love-to-north-minneapolis-families-in-crisis References: “Episode Ten: Gwen and the Book of Sand/Signals/In the Dust of the Stars” from the Official Deaf Crocodile Podcast Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #TheArtofInsurgence80sAnimatedSciFantasy #DCP Foll…","meta_description":"Jean-François Laguionie’s GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND is maybe a little too strange to fully understand, but its juxtapositions and style leave help it get…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6921,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/trylove-241033/episodes/episode-371-gwen-and-the-book-of-sand-1985/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trylove-241033/episode-371-gwen-and-the-book-of-sand-1985.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}