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My Response to @sennahojottonib.bsky.social's wonderful video "Gestures of Thought: Glance" (which you can watch - and read about - here: transferences.org/videoessays/...)

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Friendly reminder that this is happening on February 3 (next monday)! See you there 👀

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Excited to attend this event in Hannover next month, where I'll screen a new video of mine alongside works by @kathleenloock.bsky.social, @jemsaunders1.bsky.social, @bolddecade.bsky.social, @brunellatedesco.bsky.social, and others!

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Ever wanted to see us on the big screen? Well, not us per se - but it's getting very close. Join us for a video essay screening with contributions from our own @kathleenloock.bsky.social and many others! See you in Hannover on February 3, 4 - 7 pm at Koki Hannover! 📽️ 📌More info below:

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Here's a video essay meditation on the gesture of the glance, and on Jean Epstein, with inspirations from Eliza Steinbock's concept of "shimmering images". Dedicated to Dayna McLeod and Catherine Grant for their unique way of glancing that taught me so much. transferences.org/gestures-of-...

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Two marvellous (+ freely available online) collections of videographic studies about David Lynch’s films and television works: Ariel Avissar’s grouping of just under 50 video essays at Vimeo: vimeo.com/showcase/115.... And Filmscalpel’s longstanding collection: www.filmscalpel.com/david-lynch/

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Screen Stars Dictionary – entry #31: Chloë Grace Moretz, by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz vimeo.com/1022601086

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Screen Stars Dictionary – entry #30: Ruby Lin, by Quan Zhang vimeo.com/1022602379

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Screen Stars Dictionary – entry #29: Mia Goth, by Alison Peirse vimeo.com/1022598933

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Now on Tecmerin, a special horror-themed edition of the Screen Stars Dictionary, with special guest curator Alison Peirse! This all-female, all-bloody collection includes pieces by Alison, Quan Zhang, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, May Santiago and @filmstudiesff.bsky.social: vimeo.com/showcase/115...

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Out now: new issue of TECMERIN (a journal on whose advisory board/Comité Científico I have been proud to serve) celebrates six years of existence by paying special attention across its various sections to the production of horror films. tecmerin.uc3m.es/portada-revi...

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New issue of @intransition.bsky.social is here! Issue 11.4 features 10 peer-reviewed video essays on queer spectatorship, vampires, pop music in fanvids, female subjectivity in socialist cinema, unfulfilled love stories, and more. Check them out: intransition.openlib...

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Here's a great way to start 2025. The Museum of the Moving Image in New York is devoting a screening series to the video essay. From January 3 to 5, they will present four different programs. My video essay THE APARTMENT is part of the second program (scheduled for Jan 4), called REMIXING NEW YORK.

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On this day in 1986, Andrei Tarkovsky left us. He had spent only 54 years with us, but he sculpted that time into seven immortal feature films. Celebrate his legacy with this selection of ten video essays: filmscalpel.com/andrei-tarko...

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Thrilled to appear on the Sight and Sound list for the Best Video Essays of 2024 with @jamesmacdowell.bsky.social for our essay, ‘Autofictional Authenticity’ (intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...). In great company too! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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Sight and Sound list of the best video essays of 2024!! I've got a couple picks in here, but the real value of this list is highlighting dozens of creators outside the YouTube circle (did you know incredible things are happening on Vimeo? You should!) www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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The Sight and Sound video essay poll for 2024 is out! My first time voting which was a real honour (thanks to the organisers for inviting me). Something for everyone in here. Enjoy! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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I co-edited the Sight and Sound poll for the best video essays of 2024! Thank you to everyone who contributed a list. We've highlighted a few notable essays, but it’s worth diving into the full list (183 unique vids!) Thanks for having me @sightsoundmag.bsky.social 🎉 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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!!!The best video essays of 2024!!! Honoured to be 1 among the 47 contributors from 17 countries who together submitted a total of 256 votes, which amount to 183 unique entries. @sightsoundmag.bsky.social | BFI www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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So honored to be mentioned by Oswald Iten in this year’s Best Video Essays of 2024 poll from Sight and Sound, and bursting with pride that my former student Nancy Jia also made the list!!! 🥰 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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Sight and Sound has published its annual poll of the year's most notable video essays. @queline.bsky.social , @willwebbful.bsky.social, and @cydniiwilde.bsky.social tallied a total of 183 videos. Better start now if you plan to watch them all before the year ends. Or skip Christmas dinner.

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ASAP Journal published a fabulous cluster on “The Personal Mediascape in the Age of Videographic Heterotopias,” edited by Joel Burges & @kinolab.bsky.social / Allison Cooper, a brilliant collection of wonderful video essays on our personal relationships with media. asapjournal.com/cluster/the-...

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We made a thing! The videographic cluster “The Personal Mediascape in the Age of Videographic Heterotopias” has just gone live over on ASAP/Review. Happy watching and reading! asapjournal.com/cluster/the-...

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The "Coronaseries" videographic section of NECSUS is now online at necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/au... with an introduction by me, and amazing contributions by Catherine Fowler, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social Pierre-Olivier Toulza and Mathias de Bondt.

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My new book FILMMAKERS THINKING is now available through Amazon (print-on-demand versions only). It is published by Sticking Place (USA), a new edition of the work originally published by Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE Film School) in Spain. Please buy it !!

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One of those great video essays that make one see and understand: Lucy Fife Donaldson on George Hoyningen-Huene's use of colour: intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

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New video essay (no. 86!) in the monthly THINKING MACHINE series at FILMKRANT, by Cristina Álvarez López and myself: GIRL INTERRUPTED, on the affinity/resonance between Hitchcock’s MARNIE and De Palma’s OBSESSION. vimeo.com/1035933924

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Some great stuff today on The Video Essay Podcast! First, an interview conducted by Kevin B. Lee with Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod and Alison Peirse on "Ways of Doing," their series of videographic collaborations and methodological practices: thevideoessay.com/on-ways-of-d...

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True story: I wrote 2 papers on the scholarly aspects of video essaying, then listened to the brilliant conversation by @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social and Alan O'Leary on @willdigravio.bsky.social's superb podcast, to which I responded. It is published today: thevideoessay.com/being-clear-...

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Check out @cormacrestrike.bsky.social's “Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth” at SCREENWORKS, a videographic portfolio that questions the extent to which a scholar (the creator) might go before they consider a piece of videographic research to be ‘complete’ www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...

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The final exercise I developed for my Parametric Summer Series was "Laird's Constraint"; in my own video, I chose to analyze the spectacular still-image montage sequence from "The Parallax View" (cw: some disturbing images): vimeo.com/1023594854

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On November 28, 1961, Alfonso Cuarón was born. He has directed just eight feature films but often does double duty on his movies. He's won Academy awards as director, producer, editor and cinematographer. Here's a selection of half o dozen video essays to celebrate his birthday. 🧵📽️ #filmsky

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In my second "Warr's Constraint" (based on Nick Warr's "Honolulu Mon Amour": vimeo.com/136604988), I used clips from "Moneyball" to examine baseball as a visual metaphor for America in the age of Trump...

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"Warr's Constraint" connects visuals from a media object with audio and/or text related to a specific individual, who is in no way related to that media object. For my own video, I paired the "Back to the Future" trilogy with Friedrich Nietzsche: vimeo.com/1023594685

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For my Parametric Summer Series, we used "Payne's Constraint", which is all about repetition; my initial plan was to combine, in one video, two iconic Stephen Tobolowsky roles that are all about memory and repetition: Ned Ryerson and Sammy Jankis. I ended up making two videos...

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Another "Grant's Constraint" video I made for my Parametric Summer Series, once again based on @filmstudiesff.bsky.social's "Satis House" (vimeo.com/283305419):

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I made this for my Parametric Summer Series earlier this year, following "Grant's Constraint", a set of constraints I developed based on @filmstudiesff.bsky.social's "Satis House" (vimeo.com/283305419). This particular constraint focuses on a significant, recurring film setting:

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If you want to contribute to the newest volume of the Screen Stars Dictionary, then here's your chance. Previous entries in this series of video essays can be found on the website of the Journal of Audiovisual Essays TECMERIN (see tinyurl.com/2f74a8ej).

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The angry cadence of THE RHYTHMS OF RAGE is both catchy and cathartic. @barbarazecchi.bsky.social mixes dozens of film and tv clips of enraged women into a video essay that pulses powerfully.

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We invite contributions to “𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭”, a special edition of the ScreenStarsDictionary dedicated to aging actors. Please send an email with your idea to Barbara ([email protected]), Ariel ([email protected]) and Vicente ([email protected]) by 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐, 2025

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The video essay isn't that young anymore... DUST is a Western supercut created in 2008 by Patrick Elliott. Patiently piecing together shots sourced from VHS tapes, he made a montage of Native Americans gathering for a "last ride." The cowboys and settlers are conspicuously and deliberately absent.

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Filmmaking is as pragmatic as it is creative. The song that plays over the closing credits of The Cry of the Owl is a case in point. CHOOSING DEATH ROW SONGS, a video essay by John Gibbs, explains how rights issues complicated the audio post-production of the film, but enriched the end result.

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