Ari Gold

In this episode, we sit down with filmmaker and musician Ari Gold for a wide-ranging, deeply personal conversation that touches on art, grief, spirituality, and the transformative power of storytelling.

Ari shares the journey behind his new single-shot film Brother Verses Brother — an intimate, real-time odyssey through the streets of San Francisco with his identical twin, searching for music, love, and their 99-year-old father. He also opens up about Helicopter, his decade-in-the-making documentary about processing the death of his mother through a psychomagic ritual prescribed by legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky.

We talk about what it means to truly experience art versus merely consume it, why specificity is the key to universality, the creative flow state and what it feels like when something takes over, and bending reality itself.

A conversation about loss, healing, and why art — at its deepest — is an act of lighting people up.