Can confirm I love a letter! Check out this lovely reflection from Leo and if you have any thoughts, drop us a line. Postcards also welcome.

One of my favourite video essays from the last year - so cool (and terrifying!)

"The presence of the filmmaker here is felt deeply through the use of a handheld camera (in this case a Tyco kids video camera)." John Bradburn's fragment published as part of our 3rd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/11/13/d...

Thanks to @benspatz.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social this afternoon, alongside thought-provoking presentations from Ben, @ellwrig.bsky.social and Oscar Vinter on 'video ways of thinking'. Lovely to see colleagues excited about audiovisual research!

"At once commenting, reflecting, reinforcing, and completing each other, propelled along by a perfectly chosen accompaniment" Joel Blackledge's fragment published as part of our 3rd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/08/27/t...

Call for Applications! Ways of Undoing invites videographic makers, scholars, and artists to apply to one of three intensive, week-long residential workshops (St Andrews 2026 | Vancouver 2027 | Tokyo 2028). Funded accommodation & board provided. Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 waysofdoing.com/ways-of-undo...

🚨 THE VIDEO JAM IS BACK! 🚨 📅 January 16–18, 2026 To celebrate five years of The Essay Library, we'll be coming together once again to create video essays in 48 hours. Learn more + join: theessaylibrary.com#jam

A very short winter film project in response to Chris Snow's book 'On a train home with the Sun in my eyes). (See @mapsanddiagrams on Instagram) vimeo.com/1151243688

"Sarah uses the adjective ‘uncanny’ at the end of her description, and her subtle deployment of ‘the sound of hand cream’ is instrumental in creating this feeling." @horror-scholar.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our 3rd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/08/27/e...

Lovely to be invited to vote in the @sightsoundmag.bsky.social best video essay poll again this year! And thanks to @colleenlaird.bsky.social for giving a mention to @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social and the brilliant Cheezit Timeline.

Our 3rd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 12 fragments (from nine creators). Read our editorial and view them all here fragments.video

Wrote a case study about placements, employability and the MA Film & Television for the University's Education in Practice Journal - check it out here: education-in-practice.co.uk/saunders-j-2...

Péter Lichter and Bori Máté's fragment shows "just how much the definition of a fragment can be stretched". Read their extended exploration of the making of the film and watch it as part of our 2nd collection of fragments. Find our more here fragments.video/2025/07/28/t...

I absolutely need to find a way of watching this. Delighted to hear it opens with a caption 'which sets out exactly where we are and what is happening without the need for a lot of dialogue and showing rather than telling'. Excellent. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

Every time I watch this I'm weirdly intrigued by how much water gets in the bag... @bolddecade.bsky.social

"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...

"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...

Finally saw The Sound of Music on a big screen for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago, and it was glorious. Cinema trips are few and far between post-parenthood! #JulieAndrews

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 vimeo.com/828949634

"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...

“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.

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!

We're looking for participants in our "Hollywood Memories" project. Please tell anyone you think might be interested!

Our 2nd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 9 fragments (from eight creators) ranging from 35 seconds to an hour. fragments.video

My first time contributing to this! Check out the full compilation of 25 video essays about dreams here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeXz...

Does this mean Bond will come to Birmingham? Make it so, Mr Knight. But maybe not until after I finish my thesis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Lovely to have my video essay screened as part of the CAL Research Festival at @unibirmingham.bsky.social today 🙂 #birmingham #carchitecture #hashtagnobodyuses

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"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...

My fragment from another time

Brilliant Creative Practice Colloquium last week! Big thanks to the organising team for two insightful days of presentations, discussion, improv, making, collaboration across disciplines, reflection, and fun. From gnomes and badgers to self-talk and rebellious research. Loved it. #bfilmcpc

A lovely fragment on lovely Detectorists.

"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...

Super excited for the third Creative Practice Colloquium at @unibirmingham.bsky.social today, with a fab line up! #bfilmcpc

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

Our creative practice research unconference starts tomorrow! I’m so pumped 🕺🏻 🪩

"bringing the poetic/explanatory to the fore and then distracting us briefly from it by having AI battle it out for our very videographic souls." @colleenlaird.bsky.social & @daynarama.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more fragments.video/2025/05/21/g...

This was fun! Cliff Richard, Birmingham, and desktop documentary. Thanks Zaragoza! #realandimaginedspacesinfilm

"haunting, unsettling and alludes to both the ethical and technical concerns that can arise when working with materials and software" Johannes Binotto's - @sennahojottonib.bsky.social -‬ fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/05/03/l...

Check out 'Fragments', a new journal that I'm so proud to be involved with alongside @cormacrestrike.bsky.social and @willdigravio.bsky.social. The first collection and editorial can be perused below!

Excited to be presenting at this conference next week, albeit remotely! #RealandImaginedSpacesinFilm

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 #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

This was fun!

Only TWO days left to register for the Creative Practice Colloquium! See link below to register: #bfilmcpc

Solidarity. Always.