Now on 16:9, @colleenlaird.bsky.social's "See Under: Orient", the first in a series of videos made for our summer workshop, “𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐫…”, in response to the The New York Times’ list of “100 Best Movies of the 21st Century". 16-9.dk/2025/11/the-... More to follow soon...

🎬 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...

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

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

"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!

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!

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

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

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!

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

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...

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

👀 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...

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."

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-...

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

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...

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/

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

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

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...

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

"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

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

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).

😘 #SCMS2025

💙 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

Just got here and got dope stuff to share! Big thanks to @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social for asking me to write her!

We invite contributions to “𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭”, a special edition of the ScreenStarsDictionary dedicated to aging actors. Please send an email with your idea to Barbara ([email protected]), Ariel ([email protected]) and Vicente ([email protected]) by 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿 @ebonyteach.bsky.social Ebony Elizabeth Thomas & I are co-editing a book! ANNE FOR EVERYONE: GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS @upmississippi.bsky.social tinyurl.com/AnneForEvery... proposals by Dec 1! #AnneOfGreenGables #ChildLit #ProfessorLife #iSchoolUI

The angry cadence of THE RHYTHMS OF RAGE is both catchy and cathartic. @barbarazecchi.bsky.social mixes dozens of film and tv clips of enraged women into a video essay that pulses powerfully.

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!

Congratulations to @veronikahanakova.bsky.social on the new issue of Iluminace on the topic of Configuring Computer Labor in Film and Audiovisual Media! My contribution Envisioning the Interface is here: criticalcommons.org/view?m=it2cP... Full Iluminace issue is here: iluminace.cz/contents/ilu...

19 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2024-2025! See the details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search by category/keyword. 🌏📊 Now 580 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 - 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝟒: "𝐋𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐝'𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭" Derived from @colleenlaird.bsky.social’s “Eye-Camera-Ninagawa”, this Constraint first deconstructs a montage sequence; next comes a 54-years-long twist! Watch @newsfromnihon.bsky.social's video, and see more here: vimeo.com/showcase/113...

@colleenlaird.bsky.social’s “Eye-Camera-Ninagawa”: intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝟏: "𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭'𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭" This set of constraints, derived from @filmstudiesff.bsky.social's “Satis House” (2020), focuses on a significant location recurring throughout a film; watch Lucy Fife Donaldson's lovely example, and see more here: vimeo.com/showcase/113...

Truly tickled to share this other video I made for @arielavissar.bsky.social 's Parametric Summer Series Workshop: vimeo.com/1028797856?s...

Pleased as punch to share this video I made for @arielavissar.bsky.social 's Parametric Summer Series Workshop: vimeo.com/1024391047?s... ☺️

Very excited to share the outcome of the 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, an online videographic workshop I organized this summer! Here 👉 tinyurl.com/ParametricSu... 👈 you can find detailed instructions for the four parametric exercises used in the Series, w/links to Vimeo showcases of the works created.

One of my all time favourite video essays is on YouTube: Maryam Tafakory's 2020 work IRANI BAG. "Collating scenes of mediated intimacy in Iranian cinema, Maryam Tafakory's 'Irani Bag' is a quietly moving instruction on 'how to touch without touching'" [Essay Film Festival] youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

This feels like a relatively healthy number of layers. Also, hello to all the recent folks. Wowsers.

An honor to be in the company of such wonderful and talented scholars in the newest issue of [in]Transition. "Women and Aging" special issue edited by Barbara Zecchi. Many thanks to Alastair Philips and Irene González-López for their generous reviews. <3 intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

Home from a fabulous #scms24 conference! Top highlight: a huge crowd to re-launch @intransition.bsky.social on @openlibhums.bsky.social! Check out the new issue featuring 7 video essays, including two retrospectives on the journal's early history a decade ago (& my piece about #TheRehearsal !)

Another great watch from MAI Focus Issue 13: Ariel Avissar examines clothing and horror, using the case study of Israeli costume designer Michal Dor’s Rabies (2010) and Big Bad Wolves (2013) maifeminism.com/wicked-seams/ #film #feminism #academicbluesky

The Art of the Benshi World Tour begins in April; tickets on sale now! 🎉 Also, a beautiful "companion book" ed. by Michael Emmerich and Daisuke Miyao with essays by Japanese Film scholars (including mine on female benshi 🥰) is available for preorder soon! artofthebenshi.org youtu.be/Jxld6e-IieQ?...

Issue #3 of the #Videography blog is now online at #ZfM Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaften! The focus is on videographic criticism & #pedagogy. Check out this new bilingual (German/English) and multimedial (video essays+written texts) publication at: zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/video...

Publication day!!!! Really proud of the stunning Alison Peirse for shepherding a massive undertaking from seed to publication: the Doing Women’s Global Horror Film History project! Humbled and honored to have a piece in such a tremendous collection! maifeminism.com/issues/focus...