🎬 Double Bill this Saturday 1st Nov at the Electric Palace: The Collector (William Wyler, 1965) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) 🎟️ Discount available for both! 👉 Event info: www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/... 🎟️ Tickets: electricpalace.com/production/2... 📺 Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBP...

My review for The Thing With Feathers 🪶 theconversation.com/the-thing-wi...

Very happy to have contributed a (35-seconds-long) fragment to the 2nd collection of @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social, alongside fragments by @drdanobrien.bsky.social, @bolddecade.bsky.social , @ursmusically.bsky.social, and others!

Screen Stars Dictionary #36: Arnold Schwarzenegger, by @drdanobrien.bsky.social: vimeo.com/1104220855

Very pleased my video-essay will be part of today’s screening at the Marienbad Film Festival, showing alongside the brilliant work of fellow video essayists and filmmakers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LdHX...

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

Very pleased to be part of this new issue of MAST on Time Machines with some more video-essay work on Time Loops. Many thanks to Michael Goddard, James Burton, and Aleena Chia for your support with this 🕰️➰⏰ www.mast-journal.org/vol-6-no-1-2...

The Phoenician Scheme: a fun watch even though it’s the same journey in a different vehicle theconversation.com/the-phoenici...

Cut to Sound #2: "Ears Led the Way" A collaborative video, with images and words by Oswald Iten, Rotem Sudman, @drdanobrien.bsky.social, Daniel Pope, @vikap8.bsky.social, Eduardo Gama, Ada Etgar, and Alan O'Leary: vimeo.com/1076654961

Amazing Rebellious Research workshop at @baftss.bsky.social today from the Practice Research SIG - bring on the manifesto! Also a plug to all creative practice researchers for the Creative Practice Colloquium at UoB in June! #BAFTSS2025

Not quite a comedy, not quite a horror, not quite a musical - film expert @drdanobrien.bsky.social reviews Opus. He explains why this satire about an evil celebrity cult has plenty to say, but what that is remains frustratingly unclear. theconversation.com/opus-clunky-...

Pleased to have another article published with @uk.theconversation.com on One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest & the role of games within the film. Like Anora, it picked up 5 Oscars at the 48th Academy Awards including best picture, actress & director. This article includes a short video-essay I made:

Film expert @drdanobrien.bsky.social reviews the multi-Oscar nominated Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. Does this ballad of a thin man live up to the hype or is it tangled up in blue? Read the full review in the @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/a-complete-u...

Was pleased to attend another press screening today, this time for A Complete Unknown at Soho Hotel. The plush surroundings certainly did not upstage the film and a very favourable review will follow shortly 🎸🪕

Incredibly happy to be included in the Sight and Sound poll of best video-essays of 2024. In fact all videos from ILUMINACE: Configuring Computer Labor, put together by @veronikahanakova.bsky.social & @jirianger.bsky.social was. Proud to be in such great company. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

A video lecture on teaching the video essay by James Slaymaker, author of a new book on the essay film. youtu.be/7nbmM4gfJ8c

New issue of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies out now. necsus-ejms.org #follow necsus.bsky.social

As it’s Thanksgiving, here’s some of Dylan Baker’s original audition for Owen in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)✈️ 🚋 🚗 Happy Holidays

Pleased to have received an author copy of this in the post

💙 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

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).

Very pleased to be part of this wonderful publication and congratulations to @veronikahanakova.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social for putting it all together 💾🖥️💿⌨️

Gladiator II: a wavering thumbs up for a rehashed sequel that can’t escape the ghost of Russell Crowe

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

Gladiator II is out today! So too is my review with @uk.theconversation.com which you can read here: theconversation.com/gladiator-ii...

Here’s another link directly to the paper and video: The Allure and Threat of the Cine-Computer: A Supercut of Onscreen Computers in Speculative Fiction💻💽🔴💾 iluminace.cz/artkey/ilu-2...

Very happy to have a new video-essay published with ILUMINACE and to be part of this wonderful collection. Many thanks to Veronika Hanáková and Jiří Anger for all your support with this💾💽💻. Link to the full issue below: iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu...

I had a great time being part of this wonderful workshop during the summer. Thanks to @arielavissar.bsky.social for putting it together and all involved for such a welcoming and educational video-essay experience.

Had the pleasure of attending a press screening this morning at the IMAX in London for Gladiator II, seated near Mark Kermode too! Review to follow shortly…