Joel Gunz

Joel Gunz believes that the search for meaning is among the highest of human pursuits, and it’s this impulse that drives his work. He’s a writer, filmmaker, the host of the annual HitchCon film conference and the weekly MacGuffin Film Club and is the editor of The Hitchcockian Quarterly. His recent publications include “Hermetic Hermeneutics in Hitchcock’s Vertigo” (Book TBA, David Sterritt, ed., forthcoming 2026), “Travels in Hitchcock’s Multiverse” (Re-viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives, Robert Kapsis, ed., 2025) and “A Comparative Look at Hitchcock’s Murder! and Mary” (Hitchcock Annual, Sidney Gottlieb, ed., 2025). His 2021 film essay Spellbound by L’Amour Fou was selected by several festivals and won Best Short Documentary at the Medusa Film Festival.

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A conversation on A.I., evolution, consciousness, and the future of the human

with J. F. Martel, Michael Garfield and Joel Gunz

A Two-Night Event! Join MacGuffin Media’s Joel Gunz for a free, synchronized viewing party of Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, (participants procure their own viewing license) on June 23, followed by podcasters J.F. Martel (Weird Studies) and Michael Garfield (Humans on the Loop) in conversation, using Spielberg’s film as the entry point, on June 25. Martel and Garfield will take questions from the audience.

This event concluded on June 25, 2026.