For Millennium Film Journal, my thoughts on three found footage films from this year’s Prismatic Ground: millenniumfilmjournal.com/los-angeles-...

Thank you, Will! And yes, pre-order here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...

For nearly two years, I worked as the researcher on @elliotwilliams.bsky.social’s new book, FIVE BULLETS, a history of “subway vigilante” Bernie Goetz, his trial, and 1980s NYC! It’s as timely as it is captivating! Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...

reminding myself that every extra freelance gig is one step closer to paying off my student loans/buying an eames lounge chair

It’s not a sports documentary until an interviewee says the subject was “playing chess while everybody else was playing checkers”

should be mandated in every classroom throughout our great land

“It is in the final scene, in which Lloyd’s character completes a dashing run to win the big game, where the film distinguishes itself as a masterpiece’,”  
@willdigravio.bsky.social writes of ‘The Freshman’: crookedmarquee.com/with-pure-gu...

Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today. We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER: For @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...

Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today. We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER: For @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...

Hell. Yes. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/spaceba...

Very excited to have been apart of this story, but perhaps even more happy to have my academic freedom at Boston University.

Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.

The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...

The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...

“For the last five seconds, we all lay there, quietly waiting for what seemed an eternity,” Edward Teller recalls in this @politico.com excerpt abt the Trinity explosion, 80 years ago this week, from my new oral history of the Manhattan Project & the atomic bombings. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“The layering of images, combined with the cartoon-like set design, achieves an effect that is a blending of worlds: half-real, half-animation.” @willdigravio.bsky.social on the beloved Kelly-and-Jerry dance sequence in “Anchors Aweigh”: crookedmarquee.com/gene-kelly-j...

My thoughts on the best (and worst) moments in late night TV (so far) this year! For @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...

Today I start a 6-month sabbatical, where my goals are to disengage from academic politics (after chairing our Faculty Council for the past tumultuous year), wander about Europe as much as possible, and write a book / make video essays about media reflexivity. Like this! youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs

Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the “guest host” tradition.

🛜⚠️ @theguardian.com named @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.com’s LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET a podcast of the week. Out Tuesday—subscribe now: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVMPSzxYelik

This @parkermolloy.com interview with @juddlegum.bsky.social is solid gold. What he's built at @popular.info is incredible. That he's doing it without a paywall is really a tremendous service to news consumers. Here's why he made that choice:

When college professor Steve Ross began teaching psychology 16 years ago, he never imagined he’d one day be drawing on his love of late-night television in the classroom. But it turns out that playing a late-night host has become one of his best tools for getting through to students.

A little snippet from one of my reflections in our first editorial. Watch the fragment by @willdigravio.bsky.social at fragments.video

"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...

In this week’s late night TV recap, John Mulaney looks up at the lights after getting whupped by three 14-year-old boys, while John Oliver and Nathan Fielder look to the skies to fix our aviation nightmares. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...

Our Summer 2025 issue is here! On the cover: Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in John Ford's THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940). The issue includes a review of the new found footage epic, HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT, and an interview with its director, Alexander Horwath. More at our website: www.cineaste.com

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

As #TheRehearsal ends in the US and debuts in the UK, I was happy to contribute some of my thoughts to this compelling column by Micha Frazer-Carroll:

This week on the Late Night Time Machine, we travel back to the night of July 5, 1982 and an early guest appearance by Pee-wee Herman on 'Late Night with David Letterman' that became a classic.

In May 2022, I took a team of journalists to the West LA VA. Our question was simple: “Why are vets sleeping on the sidewalk outside?” Yesterday, the results of @longlead.com’s reporting hit home:

Leave it to Johnny Carson to find a subtle way of letting his audience know just how he felt.

April will not be the cruelest month, but it does mark 100 days of Trump's second term. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @prithvi97.bsky.social and I look at how rhetorical attacks on disinformation researchers have become government policy. www.techpolicy.press/fantasy-beco...

RIP Ruth Buzzi ❤️

Ruth Buzzi, comedy sketch player on groundbreaking series 'Laugh-In,' dies at 88.

Very excited to be featured on Will's return episode! Check out our conversation about my book of video essays on #BreakingBad (and the book itself at go.middlebury.edu/videographicBB )

The video essay podcast is back!What a wonderful surprise. Cooking pasta right now and listening to my good friends @jmittell.bsky.social and @willdigravio.bsky.social thevideoessay.com

The Video Essay Podcast returns! @jmittell.bsky.social joins to discuss his new videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad, the first in a series he edits for Lever Press. Listen here: thevideoessay.com/jason-mittel...

"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!

Cut to Sound #1: "A Storm Approaching" A collaborative video, with images and words by @filmstudiesff.bsky.social, Farzaneh Yazdandoost, @nilanjana.bsky.social, @sennahojottonib.bsky.social, Yarden Kum, @willdigravio.bsky.social, Katia Arieli, and Amanda Doxtater: vimeo.com/1077301421

This week on the Late Night Time Machine, we travel back to April 2017 and Samantha Bee's 'Not the White House Correspondents Dinner,' which Will Digravio writes is enough to make one nostalgic for Donald Trump’s first year in office

have started adding recession-proof investments to my portfolio

Everybody's Live w/ John Mulaney is now firmly in the upper tier of late night TV. It has fully arrived. More in my column for @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...

JIMMY BUCKETS

Russell Westbrook is just the best

This week on the Late Night Time Machine, we travel back to the of night December 10, 1997, when Conan O’Brien, then just four years into his now-legendary late-night run, asked first-time guest Donald Trump what seemed like a fairly innocuous question.

Excited to offer my course "Video Editing & Film Montage" again this summer at UMass Amherst! The course is online, asynchronous, and open to anyone. It teaches basic video editing skills through tutorials informed by film theory & remix culture. Registration is open! www.umass.edu/film/online-...

Photojournalist Fatma Hassouna, the subject of Sepideh Farsi’s PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK—selected by @assoacid.bsky.social to screen in Cannes—has been killed with nine members of her family in an Israeli airstrike. @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...