Dan Travis says his biggest fear is getting a paper cut on his eyeball. Working in the film industry, he says there are paper signs everywhere and that he’s just bracing for the moment it happens and ocular fluid leaks everywhere.  

Ironically, eyeballs have always played an important role in cinema. Not just because we need our eyes to see movies, but because they  have even been subjected to numerous slashings and gougings since its birth.

On this episode of Your Weirdest Fears, host Larry Mullins sits down with Professor David Tolchinsky. As the founding director of Northwestern University's MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage program and a filmmaker himself, he provides some excellent insight as to where humanity’s fascination with the eye came from, as well as what the fear of eyeball trauma says about personal desires.

To read more about Professor Tolchinsky's work, be sure to visit his website. 

Host: Larry Mullins. 

Producers: Jill Webb and Dempsey Pillot

Audio Engineer: Anddy Egan-Thorpe

Managing Producer of Podcasts: Femi Redwood 

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