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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Our 5th Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live featuring 7 new fragments. Read our editorial and view them all here fragments.video

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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 · 24/03/2026

'Video Essay alert' A new issue of [in]Transition to enjoy. Find it here intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1729/i...

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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 · 11/02/2026

We now have a letters page (who doesn't love getting a letter). Our first letter comes courtesy of Qinran (Leo) Wang, a PhD candidate studying at the University of Birmingham. Thank you Leo for your letter, and we hope you all enjoy reading it as much as we did. fragments.video/letters/

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Letters

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Screenworks 16.2 - "Laird's Constraint": Videographic Montage Analysis Special Issue, entry #3 of 6 In "Dance With Me", @newsfromnihon.bsky.social breaks down a shopping montage from "Mannequin" and places it in playful conversation with "42nd Street": www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"The presence of the filmmaker here is felt deeply through the use of a handheld camera (in this case a Tyco kids video camera)." John Bradburn's fragment published as part of our 3rd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/11/13/d...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The online exhibition Metric Imagination, curated by @veronikahanakova.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social, is now live on Artyčok.TV "featuring five video essays that reflect on, and hint at ways of overcoming, our society’s obsession with metrics and quantification." artycok.tv/en/post/inte...

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Interfaces 01: Metric Imagination | Artyčok TV

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Now accepting applications! Join me, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, @jbinotto.bsky.social, @arielavissar.bsky.social, Alan O'Leary, and Danielle Hipkins for a intensive videographic exploration of Venice this summer. Deadline: Mar 31. See details here: www.univiu.org/study/summer...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"At once commenting, reflecting, reinforcing, and completing each other, propelled along by a perfectly chosen accompaniment" Joel Blackledge's fragment published as part of our 3rd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/08/27/t...

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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Now in its ninth year, our annual poll, organised by by Jiří Anger, Veronika Hanáková, Kevin B. Lee and Occitane Lacurie, showcases a record 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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The best video essays of 2025

Now in its ninth year, our annual poll showcases 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters.

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Sight & Sound Magazines Best Video essay poll is out for 2025. So much to watch and enjoy (and a small shout out for Fragments as well 😀) www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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The best video essays of 2025

Now in its ninth year, our annual poll showcases 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters.

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"Sarah uses the adjective ‘uncanny’ at the end of her description, and her subtle deployment of ‘the sound of hand cream’ is instrumental in creating this feeling." @horror-scholar.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our 3rd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/08/27/e...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Our 3rd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 12 fragments (from nine creators). Read our editorial and view them all here fragments.video

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Barbara Zecchi’s latest brilliant videographic thinkpiece, just published in 16:9 as part of Ariel Avissar and Colleen Laird’s collective series in response to the New York Times’ list of 100 best films of the 21st century. vimeo.com/1141239458?f... 16-9.dk/2025/11/the-...

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The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century: "All About Numbers: 100 Films – 11 Women"

This is "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century: "All About Numbers: 100 Films – 11 Women"" by 16:9 Film Journal on Vimeo, the home for…

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Volume 16.1 of Screenworks is out. New peer reviewed creative practice from Cassandra Tytler, David H. Fleming, Miguel Mesquita Duarte. t.co/C75H6yhJjm

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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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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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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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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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Jemma Saunders (Penny) @jemsaunders1.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In honour of Julie Andrews' 90th birthday tomorrow (and indeed, the 60th anniversary year of #TheSoundofMusic), here's the Screen Stars Dictionary entry I made a couple of years ago. 'Voice'. #JulieAndrews #MaryPoppins #voice #videoessay @arielavissar.bsky.social vimeo.com/828949634

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Julie Andrews. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jemma Saunders (University of Birmingham)

This is "Julie Andrews. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jemma Saunders (University of Birmingham)" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for…

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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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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Check out the interactive version of my book -- apps for Mac and Windows (doi.org/10.25740/qj4...) -- or grab a text pack and load it into the film|minutes video|graphic workstation (doi.org/10.25740/xq3...)

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Philip Józef Brubaker @bolddecade.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

“Wondersludge” is a sketch for a scene in my upcoming VR essay film. It’s presented here, in all its DIY glory. I no longer have the butcher knife.

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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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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Excited to announce that a Special Issue of Open Screens on the representation of Students on Screen has just dropped. It includes a special episode of The Cinematologists Podcast, articles, book reviews and a round table discussion. Some summer reading! lnkd.in/dQ3vBq5thttp...

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

TV Dictionary - entry #118: The Tripods, by David Martin-Jones Another lovely entry from David - and a reminder that, even after an entire year's hiatus, the TV Dictionary is always accepting new additions! vimeo.com/1005534120

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TV Dictionary - The Tripods

"The Tripods" in one word. Part of the TV Dictionary collection: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8660446

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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

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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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A new video by Jacob Smith ‘The Holes We Left Behind’, which forms the latest addition to the Audiovisual Approaches and the Archive dossier in MOVIE: a journal of film criticism. vimeo.com/1099652055

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The Holes We Left Behind

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

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Our manifesto is a living breathing document and we've just updated it to Version 2 following the launch of our first collection of fragments. If you want to know more about our journal and our aims you can read it here fragments.video/manifesto/

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"As a teaser for a video essay that has not (yet) materialised, this approach is succinct and logical but certainly leaves one with questions about what may have followed" Rich Matthews' fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/05/21/w...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"framed as it is in this Zoom interface, I imagine for many of us it is a reminder of the virtual gatherings that became so ubiquitous during the COVID lockdowns" @jemsaunders1.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/04/03/w...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"Is this a slow videographic practice? I might even call it ‘furniture videographics’ but then that would do it a disservice." @richardlangley.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/05/01/s...

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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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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"Is it an injustice to label this a fragment? It feels complete in the same way that a rhyming couplet out of context is still complete." @barbarazecchi.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find our more here fragments.video/2025/05/13/r...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

"I experienced this rough cut as an archive of Will’s intentions, a showcase of how various videographic techniques were being deployed to achieve them" @willdigravio.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/04/16/p...

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Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

With @jirianger.bsky.social ~ The program of MFF 2025 is out! This is the third year that audiovisual essays will be screened on the big screen at the Marienbad Film Festival (from June 12–15). The first block explores media gestures.

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"bringing the poetic/explanatory to the fore and then distracting us briefly from it by having AI battle it out for our very videographic souls." @colleenlaird.bsky.social & @daynarama.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more fragments.video/2025/05/21/g...

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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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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"haunting, unsettling and alludes to both the ethical and technical concerns that can arise when working with materials and software" Johannes Binotto's - @sennahojottonib.bsky.social -‬ fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/05/03/l...

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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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