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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · 18d

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · Jun 28

🎬 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂 𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐒! 🎬
This summer, we're diving into the New York Times' 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list — and we want you to join us! We’re very interested to see what kinds of works might come out of a collective analysis of/reflection on the same curation of films...

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Jun 21

New banger of a newsletter. See what we’ve been up to. 👀 Follow some links to new ideas and opportunities. ✨

waysofdoingcollective.substack.com

Newsletter for waysofdoing.com

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · May 1

Cut to Sound #3: "Magnetic Pulses"

A collaborative video, with images and words by
@barbarazecchi.bsky.social, @cormacrestrike.bsky.social, Merel Marjieh, @middento.bsky.social, @jemsaunders1.bsky.social, Adi Beck, Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan, and @colleenlaird.bsky.social: vimeo.com/1077486007

Magnetic Pulses (Cut to Sound, Group 3)

Made as part of a collaborative videographic experiment I organized in 2024-2025. Participants: Barbara Zecchi, Cormac Donnelly, Merel Marjieh, Jeff Romero Middents,…

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · Apr 28

"Cut to Sound" is a group exercise prompt based on a collaborative videographic experiment, exploring the relationship between sounds, images, and words.

See detailed instructions + 3 videos made by 24 participants here: www.arielavissar.work/cut-to-sound

Check them out - and make your own!

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · Apr 10

This hits hard, as 10 years ago we got a @neh-odh.bsky.social grant to launch our Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop. That grant was truly transformative, as we just saw at #scms25 - it's no exaggeration to say that videographic criticism as we know it would not exist without #NEH support!

Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social · Apr 10

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.

#humanities #highered #neh

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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts

The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Apr 1

New newsletter out today <3
waysofdoingcollective.substack.com/p/ways-of-do...

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Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social · Mar 28

The National Film Archive of Japan has opened their "Movie Meets Shinpa, Shingeki and Shinkokugeki" portal, which lets you watch 9 feature films from the 1920s influenced by Japanese theater. Unfortunately, no subs yet.
eigameetsshinengeki.filmarchives.jp/movie.html

映画をみる｜はじまりの日本劇映画　映画 meets 新派・新劇・新国劇

国立映画アーカイブ所蔵作品から見る日本劇映画の革新「はじまりの日本劇映画　映画 meets 新派・新劇・新国劇」ウェブサイトの「映画をみる」のページです。

eigameetsshinengeki.filmarchives.jp

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Mar 27

Deadline extended to account for an exciting development: due to generous funding, our summer workshop is now fully funded. There is no fee for attendance (room and board covered). Please share with eligible graduate students!

Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · Mar 27

Exciting news: "𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" is now offered FREE of tuition, with travel stipend!

Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi...

@colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Mar 26

✨✨✨✨Deadline extended to April 7th! Come work with me, @arielavissar.bsky.social, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, and Matt Payne! Please circulate /repost 👀👀👀👀

Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · Mar 26

"𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" application deadline extended to April 7!

For more on this 5-day videographic workshop, organized by @colleenlaird.bsky.social, Matt Payne, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social and myself, visit: sites.google.com/view/reframi...

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Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social · Mar 26

Loved creating this video essay for Screen Stars Dictionary, and grateful for the invaluable guidance of @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, @arielavissar.bsky.social, and Vicente Rodriguez Ortega. vimeo.com/1069164951?f...

Fukumoto Seizō. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Lindsay Nelson (Meiji University)

Screen Stars Dictionary Entry on Fukumoto Seizō by Lindsya Nelson

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · Mar 12

Application deadline is March 28 - please share with your students and colleagues who might be interested!

Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Mar 2

👀 Applications open for a graduate student summer workshop, June 9-15, on videographic criticism at Notre Dame University! Organized by @arielavissar.bsky.social, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, Matthew Payne, and @colleenlaird.bsky.social . Deadline Mar 28 Please share!
sites.google.com/view/reframi...

Reframing the Argument

Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice June 9-15, 2005

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Mar 2

👀 Applications open for a graduate student summer workshop, June 9-15, on videographic criticism at Notre Dame University! Organized by @arielavissar.bsky.social, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, Matthew Payne, and @colleenlaird.bsky.social . Deadline Mar 28 Please share!
sites.google.com/view/reframi...

Reframing the Argument

Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice June 9-15, 2005

sites.google.com

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Feb 15

I have now officially joined the ranks of people who have vulnerably placed their job security in the hands of publishers. Like all the others, I hope that my work is interesting and promising enough to ascend this realm to the even more gut-wrenching status of "peer review."

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · Feb 6

Out now! MONSTRUM 7.2, “Queer/ing Horror,” guest-ed: @Daynarama.bsky.social. The 9 video essays in this issue think about what queer reuse of queerness looks like through a horror lens, and are also acts of queer re-telling and reviewing practices of horror.
www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v7-...

MONSTRUM v7 n2 (December 2024)

A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS

www.monstrum-society.ca

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Feb 5

My bestie has a new book out.
👀👀👀❤️
vimeo.com/1053412887?s...

REWRITING TELEVISION Book Trailer

Made by Alison Peirse Original Soundtrack by _HEAVYLEG Rewriting Television now out in paperback, hardback and eBook https://www.alisonpeirse.com/rewriting-television

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · Jan 24

New Open Access book on Archives and Global Women’s Film Heritage, edited by Lizelle Bisschoff, Ana Grgić and Stefanie Van de Peer

Stretching the Archives: Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage
www.archivebooks.org/stretching-t...

Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage - Archive Books

— Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage is the result of two years of networking, workshops, and conferences that aimed to bring together scholars, archivists, and filmmakers...

www.archivebooks.org

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · Jan 16

Two marvellous (+ freely available online) collections of videographic studies about David Lynch’s films and television works: Ariel Avissar’s grouping of just under 50 video essays at Vimeo: vimeo.com/showcase/115.... And Filmscalpel’s longstanding collection: www.filmscalpel.com/david-lynch/

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Jan 16

I met him once. I told him he had beautiful hands. Because it was true. <3

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yutaka kubo @yutakakubo.bsky.social · Dec 7

Today I’m giving a talk on film stars of postwar Japanese cinema at Tonami City Library.

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Dec 2

Very happy to see this out in the world now 👀:
the latest episode of The Video Essay Podcast features Ways of Doing (that's me, Lucy Donaldson, Dayna McLeod, and Alison Peirse!) in conversation with Kevin B. Lee.
thevideoessay.com/on-ways-of-d...

The Video Essay Podcast - On "Ways of Doing"

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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · Dec 1

JPP invites applications (deadline 1/15) for a short-term team to help refine the concept for a database of Japanese paper films (紙フィルム / kami firumu) digitized as part of the Japanese Paper Film Project, based at Bucknell University. 🎞️📽️ bit.ly/kamifirumuapp

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · Nov 28

"Laird's Constraint" deconstructs and visually analyses a montage sequence, then connects it with another film that came out 54 years before/after it; it is based on @colleenlaird.bsky.social's masterful "Eye-Camera-Ninagawa": vimeo.com/770514551

Eye-Camera-Ninagawa

Published in [in]Transition: Volume 10 • Issue 2 • 2023 Ninagawa Mika’s works are highly referential, each endeavor rife with intertextuality. This…

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MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social · Nov 26

Let's start at the beginning: the guest editors of our latest issue explain the importance of feminist voices in teaching games design: "‘who are we teaching, and what can we learn from them?’ "
maifeminism.com/feminist-ped... #feminism #academicsky #gamesdesign

Feminist Pedagogies for Games: An Introduction - MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture

MAI editors illuminate the need for more feminist voices to rejuvenate the pedagogy in the popular yet male-dominated games design.

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Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social · Nov 23

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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