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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 19h

"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 · 1d

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.!!!

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 · 1d

"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 · 6d

"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 · 8d

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
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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 · 8d

"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 · 27d

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 · 13d

“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.

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

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

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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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 15d

We love them. Exciting news

Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · 16d

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Jul 31

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!
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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

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 · Jul 22

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:

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…

justtv.wordpress.com

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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 · Jul 22

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

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 · Jun 24

Fragments captures and celebrates the videographic experimentation that might otherwise never see the light of day. Submitting to Fragments is about “letting go” and contributing to an ever expanding field of videographic enquiry that focuses on process over output. fragments.video/manifesto/

Manifesto

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

From our manifesto:
This journal/database has been created to collect Fragments of making. Videographic explorations of process, method, and experimentation (true, with no clear thought or care for the end product).

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

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 · Jun 13

"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 · Jun 12

"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 · Jun 12

Another excellent selection of new video essays

[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · Jun 11

New issue is live, with 8 new video essays on topics ranging from Mulholland Drive to Abraham Lincoln on film to crocheting in horror cinema to women's labor in Latin American film to the Star Wipe! Check them out and spread the word!

[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 2(12) (2025)

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

"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 · Jun 6

"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 · Jun 4

"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 · Jun 3

"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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