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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Absolutely chuffed to win the BAFTSS videographic criticism award for my video essay 'The Anthropocene will eat itself'. Such a blast to be at my first in person BAFTSS conference in somewhat sunny Bournemouth criticalcommons.org/view?m=pA9FR...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Fragments is heading to the BAFTSS conference in April and we'd like to invite you to take part in our 'Playful Parameters' videographic interlude. Find the instructions to our short (and hopefully) fun videographic exercise at the link below. 9th April deadline fragments.video/reels-a-play...

an advert for a Steebeck flatbed film editor

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Our 4th Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. This themed collection comes courtesy of Alan O'Leary, comprising outtakes from his videographic project 'Men Shouting: A History in 7 Episodes' and featuring a response letter by Will Knowles. Find it all here fragments.video

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Péter Lichter and Bori Máté's fragment shows "just how much the definition of a fragment can be stretched". Read their extended exploration of the making of the film and watch it as part of our 2nd collection of fragments. Find our more here fragments.video/2025/07/28/t...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

"It’s a subtle (and welcome) reminder of how seemingly insignificant details can, when collated, lead to new ideas or prove worthy of greater aesthetic appreciation." Andrea Comiskey's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/p...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"is it a humorous piece? Disturbing? What is the broader context from which this fragment comes? Will it feature in the final essay film or, like the damp loaf, is it now to be discarded?" @bolddecade.bsky.social's fragment in our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/s...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"In Joel’s piece (and his description) I enjoy the idea of returning to a ‘safe’ videographic space, in this case the supercut, though one which is less ‘cut’ and more ‘blend’." Joel Blackledge's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/07/03/t...

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

So very excited to announce that as of today the number of Videographic Books in the world has doubled! Check out ADAPTIVE FORMS, Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley's fabulous new open-access book on contemporary science-fiction - complete with video essays on ARRIVAL, SNOWPIERCER, BLACK PANTHER, etc.!!!

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Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film

An examination of media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film, with 14 video essays <br><i>Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/videographicbooks/">Videographic Books</a> series</...

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

'The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself' has made the official selection for the Adelio Ferrero Video Essay prize. Exciting stuff vimeo.com/1074720429

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"There is something in its constructed-ness that seems to demand a normative reading of the video, i.e., what it is saying about this character—the wrestler—and how he is treated by the film and by himself." @arielavissar.bsky.social's fragment in our 2nd collection. fragments.video/2025/06/19/t...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"The physical recreation of a footage bin...from magazine clippings combines with the carefully arranged Cheezit timeline and other elements to be entirely familiar as an editing space" Benedetta Andreasi's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more fragments.video/2025/06/25/c...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Our 2nd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 9 fragments (from eight creators) ranging from 35 seconds to an hour. fragments.video

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I've been working on this project for a long time and am excited to finally share "The Video Essay About The Show" publicly! It's a multipart video essay about "The Show About The Show," the cult webseries - check it out:

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The Video Essay About The Show

For the past year, I’ve been working on a long-form project that I’m finally ready to share publicly. In Fall 2024, I taught a new course entitled Faking Reality: Mockumentaries, Hoaxes…

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A wonderful new research/writing/thinking tool for moving image work. Bravo

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

My new video essay featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia, the journal of the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network. vimeo.com/1074720429 You can find the journal at the link below openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/...

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The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself

Featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/issue/view/1380 Screening…

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"I was genuinely excited by the idea of ‘seeing through sound’...with an immediate feeling of ‘I want to try that!’." @cormacrestrike.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/03/04/b...

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Hello old friend. On television now in the UK. And all the grain is gone? Or is this me remembering it differently?

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

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Steve Yedlin @steveyedlin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Fellow film tech nerds, today I'm launching a brand new demo debunking some common misconceptions about so-called "HDR" colorspace. Up now on my website. #NerdyFilmTechStuff www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR

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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The Video Essay Podcast returns! @jmittell.bsky.social joins to discuss his new videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad, the first in a series he edits for Lever Press. Listen here: thevideoessay.com/jason-mittel...

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 04/01/2025

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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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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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The best video essays of 2024

From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A fabulous collection of new video essay work here.

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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Brand new issue up with 10 video essays!!! Check them out: intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1295/i...

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[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 4(11) (2024)

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Reinstating the office cd player is genuinely the best decision I've made in a long time

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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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Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth

Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth Author: Cormac Donnelly Format: Videographic PortfolioDuration: 9′ 58″; 88′ 07″ & 34′ 53″ Published: October 2024 https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/15.1/1

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OnePerfectHEADshot @headexposure.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The reason Hong Kong action films used to be the most kinetic? In the words of the late David Bordwell:

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Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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

A black and white photo of Alfonso Cuarón standing behind a window. The text ALFONSO CUARON VIDEO ESSAYS is overlaid.

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Barbara Zecchi @barbarazecchi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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 (bzecchi@umass.edu), Ariel (arielavissar24@gmail.com) and Vicente (vrortega@hum.uc3m.es) by 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐, 2025

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Hark, do I hear "eldritch gurgling"? Or a "wet squelch"? The Soundtrack's latest has essays on how sound & screenplay blend together in ENYS MEN + the sound captioning in STRANGER THINGS & THE LAST OF US. @kingsleymarshall.bsky.social James Deaville #horror intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

On the left, the cover of the latest issue of The Soundtrack journal, white background, with cutouts from a screenplay with certain words highlighted in yellow, blue, and green. On the right, a still from Season 4 of STRANGER THINGS showing Vecna, the big bad guy, who is a humanoid/zombie monster with gnarled grey skin and evil milky eyes. The caption below reads "wet footsteps squelch."

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Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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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Choosing Death Row Songs

Winner: Audiovisual Essay Selection, Marienbad Film Festival, 2024 This video essay is published in Music, Sound and the Moving Image, 18:1, where you can read…

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Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

💙 My baby is here 💙 ILUMINACE 2/2024 - OPEN ACCESS - TEXTS & AV ESSAYS What if we stopped asking how computers shape moving images and asked: how is computer iconography represented in audiovisual media? Dive into the complex portraits of computer labor in film & TV. See: bit.ly/3YMMG5m

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today. youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

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Irani Bag / کیف ایرانی by Maryam Tafakory

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

I'm here for the 'low double digit' video essays 😁📼 Amazing work by the list curators, and thanks to the wonderful people who wrote nice things about some of my work. Take your time to enjoy this brilliant list www.bfi.org.uk/polls/best-v...

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The best video essays of 2023

Our annual poll spotlights 181 unique video essays, nominated by 48 international voters, showcasing the breadth and depth of current videographic practice.

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

It's that time of year: the annual Best Video Essays poll is up! Gratified that a few respected colleagues nominated my work and that @intransition.bsky.social had so many works highlighted - but more excited to dive into the dozens of great-sounding videos I haven't watched yet! Share your faves...

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The best video essays of 2023

Our annual poll spotlights 181 unique video essays, nominated by 48 international voters, showcasing the breadth and depth of current videographic practice.

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

According to my not-at-all scientific study, 1 in 10 films begins with 'meaningful sound' (open to interpretation!) before picture. And here is a video essay featuring 60 of them... vimeo.com/816886504

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Sound Before Picture

Screened at the Marienbad Film Festival in July 2023

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Can't resist props for lecturers (they're empty sadly)

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Screened 'American Movie' for my students today. Uncle Bill's dialogue recording in the car remains one of my favourite things. RIP Uncle Bill. youtu.be/TSzHvRVE5uM?...

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It's Alright! It's OK! Uhhhh....

"It's the first line of the film man, it's gotta be on the money here!"

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