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.

https://joelgunz.substack.com/

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

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

Hosted by MacGuffin Media’s Joel Gunz, podcasters J.F. Martel (Weird Studies) and Michael Garfield (Humans on the Loop) will engage in conversation on A.I., evolution, consciousness, and the future of the human, using Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence as an entry point, followed by audience Q&A. Purchase details coming soon!

This event starts June 23.