A Year of Supercuts #10: Ares

A Year of Supercuts #9: Hermes

“A Class with Joaquim Jordà” approaches the teaching facet of Catalan documentary filmmaker Joaquim Jordà. The video essay is structured around Jordà’s voice-over, drawn from different documentaries a...

This video essay has been published in Movie: a journal of criticism issue 12, and an accompanying statement can be read here.

"Phenomenology of Marco Damilano" is a study on how Damilano’s talk show Il Cavallo e la Torre mediates displacement and humanitarian crises through reassuring televisual forms. By destabilizing its a...

A video essay on film continuity and the life and work of script supervisor Penny Eyles. Published with an accompanying authors' statement in the scholarly journal MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism i...

Published in Research in Film & History where you can read a creator's statement. Official Selection Marienbad Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Adelio Ferrero Award 2025 Nominee: Best Experimenta...

This video interrogates the contradictory aesthetics of oil using music videos and footage of oil-spill catastrophes to examine how petroleum can hold both exuberance and catastrophe in our lives and ...

Published in Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, Issue 12 (2025) https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/movie/contents/rownd._a_close_analysis_of_odds_against_tomorrow.pdf Author: Henry Rownd H...

This video essay examines the films of the Coen Brothers, arguing that their distinctive and compelling approach to filmmaking reflects the essence of creating folk music. It posits that the Coen Brot...

On so many levels, Billy Wilder’s films are obsessed with mechanics and machines – the precisely structured scripts he co-wrote have even been described as ‘narrative machines’ in their own right. On ...

This video examines With Hitchcock in Jerusalem (1966), an Israeli state-sponsored propaganda film documenting Alfred Hitchcock’s visit to Jerusalem. By juxtaposing it with Hitchcock’s feature film To...

This video essay encourages us to look closely at early cinema’s aquariums. First, seeing the fish and aquatic effects as a “distraction” in the age of the cinema of attractions (Georges Méliès), then...

This is "Playing with Mediation by Clemence Follea" by Open Library of Humanities on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

This is "What's behind the Kubrick characters. Mariana Schwartz" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

“The Red Shoes: A Desktop Fairy Tale” explores the color red in Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell’s 1948 film. Though shaped by shifting materials and technologies, red remains potent and spellbin...

A Year of Supercuts #8: Artemis

This conversation, produced in collaboration with The Video Essay Podcast, brings together three of the special issue co-editors – Ariel Avissar, Colleen Laird, and Matthew Thomas Payne – and guest mo...

Screen Stars Dictionary Entry on Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton by Alexander Greenhough

A Year of Supercuts#7

This is "It's a Strange World" by Ariel Avissar on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

A Year of Supercuts: Apollo Exploration: Reverse Motion

A Year of Supercuts #6: Athena

A Year of Supercuts: Athena Exploration: Voice-over

A Year of Supercuts: Aphrodite Exploration: deformation

A Year of Supercuts #5: Aphrodite

This is "The Landlady" by Colleen Laird on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

A Year of Supercuts #4: Zeus

Screen Stars Dictionary Entry on Alia Bhatt by Aashna Singh

Screen Stars Dictionary Entry on Naomi Watts by Kathleen Loock

A Year of Supercuts: Poseidon Exploration: environmental sound

Venice International University

Venice International University

A Year of Supercuts #3: Poseidon

A Year of Supercuts #3: Poseidon

Ariel Avissar created a well-rounded supercut of circular images found in Coen Brothers movies from 1987 through 2018.