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Jiří Anger

@jirianger.bsky.social
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below qmul.academia.edu/JiriAnger

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Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
One day to go, apply now! Link: www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/researc... @jirianger.bsky.social @drdanobrien.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
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joe @joegarrard.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
New day, new book review🥳 this time I had the privilege of reviewing @jirianger.bsky.social’s amazing monograph for the Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, which can be found here if you’d like to check it out: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/39XX3.... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social 🙂‍↕️💛
Jiří Anger’s Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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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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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Great new episode of The Video Essay Podcast from @willdigravio.bsky.social featuring @jirianger.bsky.social thevideoessay.com/jiri-anger-o...
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The Video Essay Podcast - Jiří Anger on 'Towards a Film Theory From Below'
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Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The best video essays of 2025 are here! It was a pleasure to co-organize the poll with Veronika, Occitane, and Kevin. Thanks to everyone who participated, and congratulations to those whose video essays were selected.
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Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
For those of you engaging with the ethics of videographic criticism, atrocity footage, and/or desktop documentaries, here's an article I published in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Desktop Montage: Ethics of Holocaust Footage in the Online Space
This article examines the ethical implications of ‘trick montage’ in Alfréd Radok’s Daleká cesta (Distant Journey, 1948) and its translation into the online sphere through the videographic essay Di...
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Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It’s happening! + @jirianger.bsky.social CFP for FMH: Feminist Archaeologies of Desktop media is here 🔥 Looking for written articles as well as video essays Send us your abstracts by October 28, 2025! 🫶 Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity 🫡
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Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New paper out in Screen on my long-standing fascination with the so-called “bad” Woodstock, the ethics of live multi-camera broadcasting, and the importance of accidental archives. Special thanks to @tomasjirsa.bsky.social @carobirdsall.bsky.social @veronikahanakova.bsky.social.
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Archiving the live music spectacle: Woodstock ’99 and MTV pay-per-view
Disaster! Catastrophe! Trainwreck! The day the music died! That is the official legacy of Woodstock ’99, a music festival held on the 30th anniversary of t
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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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Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
✨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT✨ The newest issue of MOVIE has just been published, and I’m excited to share that it features our audiovisual essay, A Tale of Two Desktops: The First Czech Films in Parallel Worlds, co-authored with @jirianger.bsky.social and Jiří Žák. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
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Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
@baftss.bsky.social Awards are out! ✨ Cycles of Labour won Best Videographic Criticism @veronikahanakova.bsky.social @m-tremcinsky.bsky.social 🔥 Towards a Film Theory from Below is Runner-Up, Best Monograph Endless thanks for the support!
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BAFTSS Conference 2025 @baftss2025.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Throughout #BAFTSS2025 we'll be screening all of the films nominated for the Practice Awards along with a selection of films from our Outstanding Achievement Award winner, Azza El-Hassan. See the schedule below. A more detailed schedule can be downloaded here: sites.google.com/view/baftss-...
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Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Our works have been nominated for the BAFTSS Awards! 👉 Towards a Film Theory from Below: Best Monograph 👉 Cycles of Labour: Best Videographic Criticism @veronikahanakova.bsky.social Congratulations to all the nominees, especially @filmstudiesff.bsky.social 👉 www.baftss.org/awards-2025....
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Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yesterday evening, @jirianger.bsky.social presented his videographic criticism work (6 audiovisual essays) at ASCA, @uvahumanities.bsky.social, in the Belle van Zuylen room (the woman so prominently pictured).
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Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
One of the works @jirianger.bsky.social presented last evening is this wonderful audiovisual essay on Natalia Oreiro which he made together with @veronikahanakova.bsky.social.
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Natalia Oreiro. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jiří Anger (National Film Archive) & Veronika Hanáková (Charles University)
This is "Natalia Oreiro. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jiří Anger (National Film Archive) & Veronika Hanáková (Charles University)"…
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Steve Anderson @sfanders.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Excited that our roundtable "Beyond Electronic Publication: Expanding Venues for Videographic Scholarship" was accepted by #SCMS2025, co-chaired by me and Allison de Fren, featuring @veronikahanakova.bsky.social Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, and @jirianger.bsky.social - hoping for a dynamic conversation!
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Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I’m super excited to share that this Friday, I’ll be presenting my book at the University of Amsterdam! Date: November 29, 2024 Time: 14:30-17:00 hrs (CET) Location: University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9 (BG1), room 0.16 (eLab) Online: Teams (Meeting ID: 326 613 010 851, Passcode: pN7X4R)
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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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