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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Screenworks 16.2 - "Laird's Constraint": Videographic Montage Analysis Special Issue, entry #4 of 6 @drdanobrien.bsky.social's "Everybody Dreams" analyzes the closing montage from "Vanilla Sky", and connects it with Hans Richter’s "Dreams That Money Can Buy": www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Curated by me, edited by Screenworks' Editor in Chief @charlottecrofts.bsky.social, and featuring pieces by @vikap8.bsky.social, @newsfromnihon.bsky.social, @drdanobrien.bsky.social, @colleenlaird.bsky.social, Quan Zhang and me, all made for my 2024 Parametric Summer Series. Very proud of this one!!

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🎬 Double Bill this Saturday 1st Nov at the Electric Palace: The Collector (William Wyler, 1965) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) 🎟️ Discount available for both! 👉 Event info: www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/... 🎟️ Tickets: electricpalace.com/production/2... 📺 Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBP...

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Halloween Double Bill Screening | University of Essex

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and William Wyler’s The Collector at Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Very happy to have contributed a (35-seconds-long) fragment to the 2nd collection of @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social, alongside fragments by @drdanobrien.bsky.social, @bolddecade.bsky.social , @ursmusically.bsky.social, and others!

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Very pleased my video-essay will be part of today’s screening at the Marienbad Film Festival, showing alongside the brilliant work of fellow video essayists and filmmakers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LdHX...

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

SUPERB! The Film Atlas is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is - or aims to be - an interactive global map of the history of film technology. The site has just gone live and it is free to use for all. www.filmatlas.com

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FILM ATLAS

The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing of films both as art and as historical documents

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Very pleased to be part of this new issue of MAST on Time Machines with some more video-essay work on Time Loops. Many thanks to Michael Goddard, James Burton, and Aleena Chia for your support with this 🕰️➰⏰ www.mast-journal.org/vol-6-no-1-2...

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Cut to Sound #2: "Ears Led the Way" A collaborative video, with images and words by Oswald Iten, Rotem Sudman, @drdanobrien.bsky.social, Daniel Pope, @vikap8.bsky.social, Eduardo Gama, Ada Etgar, and Alan O'Leary: vimeo.com/1076654961

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Ears Led the Way (Cut to Sound, Group 2)

Made as part of a collaborative videographic experiment I organized in 2024-2025. Participants: Oswald Iten, Rotem Sudman, Daniel O'Brien, Daniel Pope, Viktoria…

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Jemma Saunders (Penny) @jemsaunders1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Amazing Rebellious Research workshop at @baftss.bsky.social today from the Practice Research SIG - bring on the manifesto! Also a plug to all creative practice researchers for the Creative Practice Colloquium at UoB in June! #BAFTSS2025

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University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Not quite a comedy, not quite a horror, not quite a musical - film expert @drdanobrien.bsky.social reviews Opus. He explains why this satire about an evil celebrity cult has plenty to say, but what that is remains frustratingly unclear. theconversation.com/opus-clunky-...

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Pleased to have another article published with @uk.theconversation.com on One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest & the role of games within the film. Like Anora, it picked up 5 Oscars at the 48th Academy Awards including best picture, actress & director. This article includes a short video-essay I made:

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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: 50 years on Jack Nicholson’s greatest performance is as fresh as ever

McMurphy becomes an unlikely leader to the asylum patients, helping them to discover self-belief and confidence.

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University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Film expert @drdanobrien.bsky.social reviews the multi-Oscar nominated Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. Does this ballad of a thin man live up to the hype or is it tangled up in blue? Read the full review in the @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/a-complete-u...

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Was pleased to attend another press screening today, this time for A Complete Unknown at Soho Hotel. The plush surroundings certainly did not upstage the film and a very favourable review will follow shortly 🎸🪕

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Incredibly happy to be included in the Sight and Sound poll of best video-essays of 2024. In fact all videos from ILUMINACE: Configuring Computer Labor, put together by @veronikahanakova.bsky.social & @jirianger.bsky.social was. Proud to be in such great company. 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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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A video lecture on teaching the video essay by James Slaymaker, author of a new book on the essay film. youtu.be/7nbmM4gfJ8c

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Second Essay Film Seminar 2024

YouTube video by Essay Film BAFTS SIG SEMINAR

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

As it’s Thanksgiving, here’s some of Dylan Baker’s original audition for Owen in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)✈️ 🚋 🚗 Happy Holidays

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Pleased to have received an author copy of this in the post

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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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Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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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Screen Stars Dictionary | Grupo de Investigación Televisión-cine: memoria, representación en industria

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Very pleased to be part of this wonderful publication and congratulations to @veronikahanakova.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social for putting it all together 💾🖥️💿⌨️

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

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Scholarship in Sound & Image

Workshop on Videographic Criticism

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Here’s another link directly to the paper and video: The Allure and Threat of the Cine-Computer: A Supercut of Onscreen Computers in Speculative Fiction💻💽🔴💾 iluminace.cz/artkey/ilu-2...

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The Allure and Threat of the Cine-Computer: A Supercut of Onscreen Computers in Speculative Screen Fiction

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Very happy to have a new video-essay published with ILUMINACE and to be part of this wonderful collection. Many thanks to Veronika Hanáková and Jiří Anger for all your support with this💾💽💻. Link to the full issue below: iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu...

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Iluminace

Iluminace is the only Czech double-blind peer-reviewed journal for scholarly reflection upon cinema which is approached from theoretical, historical and aesthetic perspectives. It emphasizes original ...

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I had a great time being part of this wonderful workshop during the summer. Thanks to @arielavissar.bsky.social for putting it together and all involved for such a welcoming and educational video-essay experience.

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Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Had the pleasure of attending a press screening this morning at the IMAX in London for Gladiator II, seated near Mark Kermode too! Review to follow shortly…

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