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Episode 7. How to Measure the World - Filmexplorer’s Video Essay Gallery 35:52

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Today's episode features the latest collaboration with the Swiss publication, Filmexplorer. For the second time, Filmexplorer has invited guest curators to select video essays to screen as part of their online Video Essay Gallery. In this conversation, Evelyn Kreutzer, Julian Ross, and Volker Pantenburg discuss three videos they curated under the theme, " How to Measure the World ." For more, visit filmexplorer.ch . The conversation centers on three works: Volker Pantenburg presents: capricorn sunset [a constellation] (2023) by Johannes Binotto Julian Ross presents: Constant (2022) by Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner Evelyn Kreutzer presents: Xena’s Body: A Menstrual Auto-Investigation Using an iPhone (2024) by Occitane Lacurie Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Music by Ketsa.…

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On "Ways of Doing" w/ Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod, and Alison Peirse 1:07:42

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Today's episode features an interview with Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod and Alison Peirse on their ongoing series of collaborations and methodological practices, " Ways of Doing ." They are interviewed by Kevin B. Lee. This episode is the seventh in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. For more on Ways of Doing, visit their website . Learn more about the Scholarship in Sound & Image Workshop here . Listen to the previous episode with Evelyn Kreutzer and Alan O'Leary, and read a response from Miklós Kiss. Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Music by Ketsa.…

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Episode 6. Who Owns an Image? - Filmexplorer’s Video Essay Gallery 48:25

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Today's episode features the latest collaboration with the Swiss publication, Filmexplorer. For the second time, Filmexplorer has invited guest curators to select video essays to screen as part of their online Video Essay Gallery. In this conversation, Evelyn Kreutzer, Julian Ross, and Volker Pantenburg discuss three videos they curated under the theme, " Who Owns an Image? " The conversation centers on the works: A History of the World According to Getty Images , by Richard Misek – 19’ (Evelyn Kreutzer) Maryam Jafri vs Mariam Jafri , by Maryam Jafri – 12’ (Julian Ross) Excerpt from Bitomsky “Das Kino, der Wind und die Photographie” (1991, 55 min), by Hartmut Bitomsky/Volker Pantenburg – 10’ (Volker Pantenburg) Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Music by Ketsa.…

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Alice Lenay on Zoom Aesthetics & 'Twisties!' 37:51

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Today's episode features a conversation with Alice Lenay, an academic researcher and artist based in Paris. The discussion centers on Alice's recent work Twisties!, made with Théophile Gay-Mazas and recently published in NECSUS . Will and Alice also discuss her ongoing interest in Zoom aesthetics. Learn more about the podcast's collaboration with the Cary Comes Home Festival, and our call for video essays on Cary Grant and the theme of "acrobatics," here . Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Music by Ketsa.…

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Alan O’Leary and Evelyn Kreutzer on the Importance of Writing on Video Essays 56:07

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There’s been a lot of debate about what the relationship should be between videographic criticism and writing. Some have wondered if video essays could function as stand-alone scholarship and break free from having to be framed by text-based explanations such as creator statements or peer reviews. But even if one acknowledges the role of writing in advancing videographic scholarship, another question emerges: which writing? At this year's SCMS annual meeting in Boston, videographic scholars Evelyn Kreutzer and Alan O’Leary observed that several video essay presentations would cite texts from feminist film studies, genre film studies, global film studies, etc. But there wasn’t so much reference to existing writing about videographic scholarship. And it got them thinking, why aren’t videographic scholars giving more attention to writing about video essays? Haven’t there been examples of written scholarship that are worth referencing, in shaping our thinking about the form? Is it that they aren’t known well enough or established enough to be cited? And how can we start to get a better appreciation of the role of writing in video essay scholarship? Evelyn and Alan recorded this conversation to get into these questions. Evelyn asked Alan to come up with two written essays that could be especially helpful in understanding videographic scholarship. Alan came up with about 6 or 7, which can be found in the show notes. From those they picked two to discuss in depth, leading to a rich and contentious conversation about what scholars want from video essays, and what role writing has in determining the answers to that question. This episode is the sixth in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Written Essays Discussed Binotto, Johannes. In Lag of Knowledge. The Video Essay as Parapraxis. in: Bernd Herzogenrath (Ed.): Practical Aesthetics . London, New York: Bloomsbury 2021, S. 83-94. de Fren, Allison. ‘The Critical Supercut: A Scholarly Approach to a Fannish Practice’, The Cine-Files , Vol. 15, 2020, http://www.thecine-files.com/the-critical-supercut-a-scholarly-approach-to-a-fannish-practice/. Garwood, Ian. ‘From “Video Essay” to “Video Monograph”? Indy Vinyl as Academic Book’, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies , Vol. 9, No. 1, 2020, https://necsus-ejms.org/from-video-essay-to-video-monograph-indy-vinyl-as-academic-book/. Two articles by Susan Harewood: ‘Seeking a Cure for Cinephilia’, The Cine-Files 15 (2020), http://www.thecine-files.com/seeking-a-cure-for-cinephilia/ ‘Canon and Catalyst in Video Essays’, ZFM 2023, https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/en/online/videography-blog/canon-and-catalyst-video-essays Two articles by Miklós Kiss: Videographic Criticism in the Classroom: Research Method and Communication Mode in Scholarly Practice. The Cine Files 15 (2020), http://www.thecine-files.com/videographic-criticism-in-the-classroom/. What’s the Deal with the ‹Academic› in Videographic Criticism? ZFM (2024), https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/en/online/whats-deal-academic-videographic-criticism. Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Music by Ketsa.…

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Cinema & Machine Vision: Live at The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence w/ Daniel Chávez Heras 1:11:22

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Today's episode features a conversation recorded live in May at The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence in London . The event featured as the launch of Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship , a new book from Edinburgh University Press by Daniel Chávez Heras, who is a lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. Before a live audience, Daniel and Will chat about the themes and topics covered in the book, the intersections of AI and Film Studies, and answer audience questions. To learn more about Daniel and his work, click here . Daniel has also agreed to give away two copies of the book to listeners! Learn more here . Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Music by Ketsa.…

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THE EXTENDED PLAY: Johannes Binotto & Kevin B. Lee Live at Austellungsraum Klingentalat 31:11

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From movies to television, YouTube to TikTok, it’s a big world of audiovisual media out there. How many videographic works have tried to take them all in? A new installation work has tried to do just that. The Extended Play is a collaboration between artists Anina Müller and Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, which was exhibited at the Austellungsraum Klingental in Basel. The piece consists of four videos, or tracks, that function like a musical EP. Collectively they explore how moving images influence the ways humans inhabit their bodies, an extended play if you will. Track 1: The Portal borrows from stereotyped cinematic, dreamy imagery to explore the moment of exiting the cinema in a daze, where on- and off-screen worlds bleed into each other. In Track 2: The Main Character, two characters enter a medieval fantasy world cosplay inspired by Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, music videos and TikTok. Track 3: crying selfies <3 reflects on the selfies people, especially young femmes, take when they cry – as a refusal to participate in the capitalist, neo-liberal “girlboss” mindset. Track 4: No Pose No Rose is a YouTube style talk show on bodybuilding, exploring its exaggerated presentations of gender and an image-based understanding of the self. As part of the exhibition, the artists invited Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, co-leaders of the SNSF project “The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies” to share their reflections on the themes of their work in a joint conversation. They talk about their own relationship to different modes of media experience, from movies to social media, and the effects of these experiences on their own sense of embodiment. The Extended Play was supported by the Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst BS/BL. Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Ketsa.…

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Krista Calvo & Colleen Laird on Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History 52:44

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Today's episode is the first in a series of conversations on videos created as part of the project, Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History (DWGHFH) , a year-long video essay mentoring and training program that culminated in a videographic special issue of MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture . Led by Alison Peirse, DWGHFH features the work of thirty contributors on "women horror filmmakers in non-anglophone countries, with a particular focus on filmmakers from the Global Majority." This episode features a conversation with Krista Calvo, the creator of " Dos Hermanas: Uncanny Femininity, Grief & Childhood in Carillo's Animations, " and Colleen Laird, creator of " Kūki ." Support the podcast on ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ . Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠ . Subscribe on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ . Will DiGravio hosted, edited and produced this episode. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Ketsa⁠⁠⁠⁠ and _HEAVYLEG.…

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Making Video Essays About Alice Diop 34:36

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Today's episode is the fourth in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this episode, Kevin talks with project members Libertad Gills, Marine de Dardel, and Silvia Cipelletti about the experience of making video essays on the work of Alice Diop, the featured filmmaker at this year's L'immagine e la parola, the spring edition of the Locarno Film Festival. The event for the group to produce original video essays on Diop's films. In this conversation, the group discusses how they approached the films for their video essays, knowing that they would be screened with Alice Diop in the audience. You can learn more about the project on their Instagram page . Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ . ⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Ketsa.…

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Episode 44. Remixing George W. Bush w/ Christopher Jason Bell 1:01:45

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Today's episode features a conversation with filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell, who joins the show to discuss Miss Me Yet, his ten-part found footage series on the presidency of George W. Bush and rehabilitation of Bush's image in recent years. The series is available to stream for free via Means TV . Also, check out an essay on Miss Me Yet written by Will in the latest issue of Millennium Film Journal . Support the podcast on ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ . Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠ . Subscribe on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ . Will DiGravio hosted, edited and produced this episode. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Ketsa⁠⁠⁠⁠ : "Live It," "Anvil," and "Refraining."…

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On Videographic Berlinale: Viewing Tips with Libertad Gills & Evelyn Kreutzer 37:21

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Today's episode is the third in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation In this episode, Evelyn talks with Libertad Gills, a project affiliate and post-doctoral researcher for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at the Locarno Film Festival, about works they encountered at this year's Berlinale that might be considered "videographic." Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠ .Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Editing by Elsa Despoix, Evelyn Kreutzer, and Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠⁠⁠Music by Ketsa.…

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Episode 43. Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History w/ Alison Peirse 55:57

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Today's episode features a conversation with Alison Peirse, a horror film scholar and professor at the University of Leeds. Alison led the project Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History (DWGHFH) , a year-long video essay mentoring and training program that culminated in a videographic special issue of MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture . DWGHFH features the work of thirty contributors working on "women horror filmmakers in non-anglophone countries, with a particular focus on filmmakers from the Global Majority." Alison and Will discuss the origins of the project, the contributors and mentors who worked on DWGHFH, how the video essays exist into existing scholarship on women horror filmmakers, and much more. Support the podcast on ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ . Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠ . Subscribe on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ . Will DiGravio hosted, edited and produced this episode. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠⁠⁠Music by Ketsa⁠⁠⁠ : "Live It," "Anvil," and "Refraining."…

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On Weirdness and Memory: Viewing Tips with Evelyn Kreutzer & Kevin B. Lee 38:25

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Today's episode is the second in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation In this conversation, Kevin talks with Evelyn about her picks for the 2023 survey of the year's best video essays by Sight & Sound magazine. Evelyn's selections serve as an entry point for the two to discuss the broader themes of their research project. Follow the show on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠website⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠ . Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Editing by Kevin B. Lee and Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠⁠Music by Ketsa.…

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Episode 42. Kleber Mendonça Filho on 'Pictures of Ghosts' 30:40

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On today's episode, Will talks with filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho about his new film, Pictures of Ghosts. Set in the director's home city of Recife, in the Pernambuco state of Brazil, the film is a self-described "multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking." Kleber talks about the film's origins, the art of voiceover narration, treating his own films as archival images, and the unique ways that cinema is able to tell stories of ghosts. Learn more about the film and when it might be screening near you, here . Support the podcast on ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ . Follow the show on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ . Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠website⁠⁠ . Get the ⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠ . Subscribe on ⁠YouTube⁠ . Will DiGravio hosted, edited and produced this episode. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠⁠Music by Ketsa⁠⁠ : "Live It," "Anvil," and "Refraining."…

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Curating Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of 2023 41:28

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