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On today's episode, Katie Bird discusses her work and practice in an interview with Johannes Binotto. Much of their conversation centers on Katie's 2023 desktop documentary, "With a Camera in Hand, I Was Alive." Katie and Johannes discuss the potentials of videographic practice, filming oneself as a method of videographic criticism, and her work as an independent scholar and industry professional. Other works discussed include, "young (woman) filmmaker(s)" (2023), "Feeling and Thought as They Take Form: Early Steadicam Labor, Technology, and Style, 1974-1985" (2019), and Katie's research on editing and Gunsmoke. This episode is the eighth in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Music by Ketsa.
Today's episode features an interview with Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod and Alison Peirse on their ongoing series of collaborations and methodological practices, "Ways of Doing." They are interviewed by Kevin B. Lee. This episode is the seventh in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. For more on Ways of Doing, visit their website. Learn more about the Scholarship in Sound & Image Workshop here. Listen to the previous episode with Evelyn Kreutzer and Alan O'Leary, and read a response from Miklós Kiss. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Music by Ketsa.
There's been a lot of debate about what the relationship should be between videographic criticism and writing. Some have wondered if video essays could function as stand-alone scholarship and break free from having to be framed by text-based explanations such as creator statements or peer reviews. But even if one acknowledges the role of writing in advancing videographic scholarship, another question emerges: which writing? At this year's SCMS annual meeting in Boston, videographic scholars Evelyn Kreutzer and Alan O'Leary observed that several video essay presentations would cite texts from feminist film studies, genre film studies, global film studies, etc. But there wasn't so much reference to existing writing about videographic scholarship. And it got them thinking, why aren't videographic scholars giving more attention to writing about video essays? Haven't there been examples of written scholarship that are worth referencing, in shaping our thinking about the form? Is it that they aren't known well enough or established enough to be cited? And how can we start to get a better appreciation of the role of writing in video essay scholarship? Evelyn and Alan recorded this conversation to get into these questions. Evelyn asked Alan to come up with two written essays that could be especially helpful in understanding videographic scholarship. Alan came up with about 6 or 7, which can be found in the show notes. From those they picked two to discuss in depth, leading to a rich and contentious conversation about what scholars want from video essays, and what role writing has in determining the answers to that question. This episode is the sixth in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Written Essays Discussed Binotto, Johannes. In Lag of Knowledge. The Video Essay as Parapraxis. in: Bernd Herzogenrath (Ed.): Practical Aesthetics. London, New York: Bloomsbury 2021, S. 83-94. de Fren, Allison. ‘The Critical Supercut: A Scholarly Approach to a Fannish Practice', The Cine-Files, Vol. 15, 2020, http://www.thecine-files.com/the-critical-supercut-a-scholarly-approach-to-a-fannish-practice/. Garwood, Ian. ‘From “Video Essay” to “Video Monograph”? Indy Vinyl as Academic Book', NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2020, https://necsus-ejms.org/from-video-essay-to-video-monograph-indy-vinyl-as-academic-book/. Two articles by Susan Harewood: ‘Seeking a Cure for Cinephilia', The Cine-Files 15 (2020), http://www.thecine-files.com/seeking-a-cure-for-cinephilia/ ‘Canon and Catalyst in Video Essays', ZFM 2023, https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/en/online/videography-blog/canon-and-catalyst-video-essays Two articles by Miklós Kiss: Videographic Criticism in the Classroom: Research Method and Communication Mode in Scholarly Practice. The Cine Files 15 (2020), http://www.thecine-files.com/videographic-criticism-in-the-classroom/. What's the Deal with the ‹Academic› in Videographic Criticism? ZFM (2024), https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/en/online/whats-deal-academic-videographic-criticism. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Music by Ketsa.
From movies to television, YouTube to TikTok, it's a big world of audiovisual media out there. How many videographic works have tried to take them all in? A new installation work has tried to do just that. The Extended Play is a collaboration between artists Anina Müller and Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, which was exhibited at the Austellungsraum Klingental in Basel. The piece consists of four videos, or tracks, that function like a musical EP. Collectively they explore how moving images influence the ways humans inhabit their bodies, an extended play if you will. Track 1: The Portal borrows from stereotyped cinematic, dreamy imagery to explore the moment of exiting the cinema in a daze, where on- and off-screen worlds bleed into each other. In Track 2: The Main Character, two characters enter a medieval fantasy world cosplay inspired by Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, music videos and TikTok. Track 3: crying selfies
Cannes 2024 has arrived—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors is high-tailing it from screening to screening, ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts. On today's episode, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish is joined by Kevin B. Lee, Abby Sun, and Vadim Rizov to debate their differing reactions to Jia Zhangke's Caught by the Tides, Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson's Rumours, Patricia Mazuy's Visiting Hours, and Matthew Rankin's Universal Language. Subscribe today to the Film Comment Letter for a steady stream of Cannes coverage, providing everything you need to know about the 2024 edition.
Today's episode is the fourth in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this episode, Kevin talks with project members Libertad Gills, Marine de Dardel, and Silvia Cipelletti about the experience of making video essays on the work of Alice Diop, the featured filmmaker at this year's L'immagine e la parola, the spring edition of the Locarno Film Festival. The event for the group to produce original video essays on Diop's films. In this conversation, the group discusses how they approached the films for their video essays, knowing that they would be screened with Alice Diop in the audience. You can learn more about the project on their Instagram page. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Music by Ketsa.
Today's episode is the third in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation In this episode, Evelyn talks with Libertad Gills, a project affiliate and post-doctoral researcher for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at the Locarno Film Festival, about works they encountered at this year's Berlinale that might be considered "videographic." Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter.Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Editing by Elsa Despoix, Evelyn Kreutzer, and Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. Music by Ketsa.
In questo episodio Leo e Sacco vi parlano di: - 05:12 / La rassegna Indocili a Milano presenta il cinema di Chloé Galibert-Laîné & Kevin B. Lee e Alberto Diana - 24:02 / Tatami di Guy Nattiv & Zar Amir Ebrahimi (In sala dal 4 aprile) - 34:31 / Road House di Doug Liman (Prime Video) - 01:01:24 / Another End di Piero Messina (In sala) - 01:13:51 / May December di Todd Haynes (In sala) - 01:30:51 / Letterboxd & News
Today's episode is the second in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation In this conversation, Kevin talks with Evelyn about her picks for the 2023 survey of the year's best video essays by Sight & Sound magazine. Evelyn's selections serve as an entry point for the two to discuss the broader themes of their research project. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Editing by Kevin B. Lee and Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. Music by Ketsa.
Today's episode centers on Sight & Sound magazine's new list, "The Best Video Essays of 2023." In a conversation moderated by Kevin B. Lee, the curators of this year's list, Irina Trocan, Queline Meadows, and Will Webb, discuss the results of the poll, their curatorial strategies, and offer general thoughts on the video essay landscape in 2023. This episode is the first in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and Kevin B. Lee, who, in his role as the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, is leading a three-year research project on video essays with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Read Kevin's columns for Sight & Sound here. Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Editing by Kevin B. Lee and Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. Music by Ketsa: "Live It," "Anvil," and "Refraining."
Interview with Kevin B. Lee at the Locarno Film Festival 2023 | realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore | edited by Morgane Frund
At this year's Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, Film Comment participated in a fascinating experimental event called “A Long Night of Dreaming about the Future of Intelligence.” Curated by Rafael Dernbach in collaboration with the Università della Svizzera italiana and Locarno Film Festival BaseCamp, the event began at sunset on August 9 and ended at sunrise on August 10, and involved a series of talks and workshops about the many connotations of “intelligence,” how A.I. is changing our relationships to ourselves and the world, and how dreams may offer up keys to our future. The event was co-hosted by Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish. This week's episode is an excerpt from her moderating shift, featuring a conversation with A.I. scholar Andrea Rizzoli and critic Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts, about the history of artificial intelligence, and its limitations and possibilities vis-à-vis art. Check out last week's episode for another excerpt from “A Long of Dreaming About the Future of Intelligence,” featuring Stanford University scholar Shane Denson on the brave new world of “post-cinema.”
At this year's Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, Film Comment participated in a fascinating experimental event called “A Long Night of Dreaming about the Future of Intelligence.” Curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Università della Svizzera italiana, the event began at sunset on August 9 and ended at sunrise on August 10, and involved a series of talks and workshops about the many connotations of “intelligence,” how A.I. is changing our relationships to ourselves and the world, and how dreams may offer up keys to our future. The event was co-hosted by Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish. This week's episode is an excerpt from her moderating shift, featuring a lecture and Q&A with Shane Denson, a Stanford University scholar who explores the terrain of “post-cinema”—the brave new world of digital images untethered to classical notions of time, space, and reality. Check back next week for another episode from “A Long of Dreaming about the Future of Intelligence,” featuring A.I. scholar Andrea Rizzoli and critic Kevin B. Lee.
Cannes 2023 is here—and as news of standing ovations and walkouts, throwaway raves and pans, spit takes and hot takes flood the feed, we'll be reporting on all the cinematic goings-on, with our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts. For our latest episode from the shores of the Riviera, critics Mark Asch, Miriam Bale, and Kevin B. Lee join FC Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish for a discussion of their recent festival viewing, through which they trace a thematic thread of performance. The four touch on Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall, Wes Anderson's Asteroid City, Víctor Erice's Close Your Eyes, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves, Wei Shujun's Only the River Flows, Kleber Mendonça Filho's Pictures of Ghosts, and more. Subscribe to the Film Comment Letter today for a steady stream of Cannes coverage, providing everything you need to know about the 2023 edition: www.filmcomment.com/newsletter-sign-up/
The three curators Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto discuss the three video essays that they have proposed for the first exhibition of Filmexplorer's Video Essay Gallery, “Home Positions”. «La position couchée», by Seumboy Vrainom :€ «Home When You Return», by Carl Elsaesser «Hinterlasse Spuren (Leaving Traces)», by Sara Čolić
In recent years, the landscape of cinema has made some dramatic changes and Kevin B. Lee believes in one or two years from now it will evolve again to look distinctly different to how it does now. Kevin is a filmmaker, media artist, critic and Locarno's professor for the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts. His pioneering work in the video essay format has seen Kevin produce over 360 video essays exploring film and media, and his masterclass 'Cinema In The Age of Netflix' held in Locarno immediately sold out. In this episode Kevin sits down with Futurespectives host Gabby Sanderson to talk about the future of cinema, culture and society and how the emergence of a new type of cinephile is influencing the way movies are being produced and consumed. Also discussed is the urgency filmmakers have to make message films, how the rise of streaming services is affecting the social dynamic of cinema and how the power of escapism is just as important for the filmmaker as it is for their audience.
The 2022 edition of Sight And Sounds magazine's polls of the “greatest films ever made” were released last week, and since our entire podcast is about movies that have been on these decennially updated lists, we got together to share our reactions to the new ones. Here is the top 10, as decided by 1639 critics: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Vertigo (1958) Citizen Kane (1941) Tokyo Story (1953) In the Mood for Love (2000) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Beau Travail (1998) Mulholland Drive (2001) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Singin' in the Rain (1952) And here is the top 10, as decided by 480 directors: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Citizen Kane (1941) The Godfather (1972) Tokyo Story (1953) Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Vertigo (1958) 8½ (1963) Mirror (1975) TIE: Persona (1966), In the Mood for Love (2000) Close-up (1989) In our discussion, we reference: Observations and stats compiled by Kevin B. Lee on Twitter. Alissa Wilkinson on Jeanne Dielman (Vox) Paul Schrader's opinion on the new critics list
Today's episode features the fifth conversation between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the final exhibition of Filmexplorer's Video Essay Gallery, “Re-Inhabiting the Image.” Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes. Exhibition five will be available to watch on the Filmexplorer website until November 30, 2022. Episode topics include: "A video essay can express a form of embodiment that does not require the image of the body. The last selection of video essays lets emerge sensuality, where the sense of touching seems to prevail and challenge the image layer. Is this a way to re-inhabit the image? Does the haptic feature of film recall the physical dimension of early cinema?" A special thanks to the Filmexplorer team, Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Ruth Baettig, for this collaboration. Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. This show is hosted, produced, and edited by Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. Music via Free Music Archive: [here] and [here].
Today's episode features the fourth of five conversations between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the fourth exhibition of Filmexplorer's Video Essay Gallery, “Technopresence.” Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes. Exhibition four will be available to watch on the Filmexplorer website until October 30, 2022. Episode topics include: "Is the body ghostly present in the technological use and representation? How can we embody the technology of video essays? How much technology guides the subject's choices, and so displace our focus from the subject to society and its dynamics? But also: how much do the technological choices of the video essayist reveal her/his authorship? Is a technological tool intrinsically open to unexpected uses? How important and destabilising is it to show the archaeology of media in video essays? Can videography as such be seen as a technology?" A special thanks to the Filmexplorer team, Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Ruth Baettig, for this collaboration. Listen to Episode One here and Episode Two here and Episode Three here.
Today's episode features the third of five conversations between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the third exhibition of Filmexplorer's Video Essay Gallery, “(Dis)possessions.” Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes. Episode topics include: "Does the viewer possess the film or does the film possess the viewer? Is the viewer's experience of dispossession nothing but the dissociation that is generated by film editing? Does this dissociation amount to the consciousness of using a medium??" A special thanks to the Filmexplorer team, Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Ruth Baettig, for this collaboration. Listen to Episode One here and Episode Two here.
Today's show is the final part of the podcast's third anniversary celebration. Will shares clips from episodes twenty-one through thirty-one of the show. Topics include: [02:43] - Kendahl Cruver on viewing an old film in new ways [05:10] - Kevin B. Lee on the exploratory video essay [07:45] - Jemma Saunders on homework and the parametric approach [11:54] - Estrella Sendra on introducing students to video essays [15:55] - John Gibbs on blending media and mind-mapping [18:44] - Doug Pye on language and criticism [23:08] - Terri Francis on discovery [26:48] - Tracy Cox-Stanton on the scholarly video essay [29:44] - Allison De Fren on the video essay and knowledge [32:51] - Ian Garwood on voiceover [34:28] - Broey Deschanel on YouTube algorithms and censorship [37:35] - Thomas Flight on workflow and sustainability [39:50] - Jordan Schonig on bringing scholarship to YouTube [42:18] - Ariel Avissar on TV Dictionary [46:00] - Barbara Zecchi on archival voids Learn more about our 2022 call for Cary Grant videos here. Watch parts one and two below! This episode was created as part of Will's preparation for an upcoming talk he is giving at "Theory & Practice of the Video-Essay: An International Conference on Videographic Criticism" later this week at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. This show is hosted, produced, and edited by Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. Music via Free Music Archive.
At this year's Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called “The Future of Attention”, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts—including Devika—and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time. We hope you've been following along the last two weeks as we've shared excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, featuring conversations with filmmaker Helena Wittman, curator Giovanni Carmine, this year's Golden Leopard–winner Julia Murat, and others. Our final episode is with a guest who has a job like no other: it's Kevin B. Lee, Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at Locarno Film Festival and USI. Kevin joined Devika to close out the 24-hour event with a fascinating discussion on how labor, pleasure, and the special state of attention that we call cinema. Listen to the complete series here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/category/podcast/the-future-of-attention/
At this year's Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called “The Future of Attention”, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts—including Devika—and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time. Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, which featured some exciting guests: filmmakers Helena Wittmann and Kamal Aljafari; curator Giovanni Carmine; this year's Golden Leopard–winner, Julia Murat; artist Hito Steyerl; and scholars Kevin B. Lee and Noa Levin, among others. Today's episode features the Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat, whose film, Rule 34, won this year's Golden Leopard. Check back here for our next episode from “The Future of Attention” at the Locarno Film Festival, featuring filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl.
At this year's Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called “The Future of Attention”, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts—including Devika—and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time. Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, which featured some exciting guests: filmmakers Helena Wittmann and Kamal Aljafari; curator Giovanni Carmine; this year's Golden Leopard–winner, Julia Murat; artist Hito Steyerl; and scholars Kevin B. Lee and Noa Levin, among others. Today's conversation explores the spaces and infrastructures of attention with Levin and Carmine, the director of Kunsthalle St. Gallen and the curator of Art Basel's Unlimited Section.
At this year's Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called “The Future of Attention”, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts—including Devika—and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time. Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, which featured some exciting guests: filmmakers Helena Wittmann and Kamal Aljafari; curator Giovanni Carmine; this year's Golden Leopard–winner, Julia Murat; artist Hito Steyerl; and scholars Kevin B. Lee and Noa Levin, among others. Today's episode features Aljafari, who discusses his new short, Paradiso XXXI, 108, and the ways in which his filmmaking draws attention to what he calls the “camera of the dispossessed.”
At this year's Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called “The Future of Attention”, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts—including Devika—and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time. Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, which featured some exciting guests: filmmakers Helena Wittman and Kamal Aljafari; curator Giovanni Carmine; this year's Golden Leopard–winner, Julia Murat; artist Hito Steyerl; and scholars Kevin B. Lee and Noa Levin, among others. First up is Wittman, who talks about her new film, Human Flowers of Flesh, and the ways in which her practice is rooted in embodied and communal experiences of time and space. Check back here for our next episode from “The Future of Attention” at the Locarno Film Festival, featuring Kamal Aljafari.
Today's episode features the second of five conversations between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the second exhibition of Filmexplorer's Video Essay Gallery, “Online Affects”. Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes. This second exhibition is available on the Filmexplorer website until July 16, 2022. Works discussed include: Distant Feeling(s) #9 by Annie Abrahams and Daniel Pinheiro One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Wang Yuyan How to Perform Teaching During a Pandemic Spring Session, 2020: GENDER STUDIES, Rain & Cats Cut by Dayna McLeod Episode topics include: "Are affects more than just the expression of pure subjectivity? What happens when we do not know how to watch? What do watching experimental films and watching video essays have in common? How should we understand the performance of watching?" A special thanks to the Filmexplorer team, Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Ruth Baettig, for this collaboration. Listen to the first episode, on "Home Positions," here. Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. This show is hosted, produced, and edited by Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. Music via Free Music Archive: [here] and [here].
Today's episode features the first of five conversations between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the first exhibition of Filmexplorer's Video Essay Gallery, “Home Positions”. Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes. This first exhibition is available on the Filmexplorer website until June 12, 2022. Episode topics include: "home as the uncanny place of defamiliarization, discomfort in embodiment and memory, trusting the experimental and amateur approach as revelatory, video essay as post-cinematic experience, video-essay as opening the potentialities of cinema, video essay as another form of temporality and the role of community in defining video essay." A special thanks to the Filmexplorer team, Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Ruth Baettig, for this collaboration. Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. This show is hosted, produced, and edited by Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. Music via Free Music Archive: [here] and [here].
The three curators Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto discuss the three video essays that they have proposed for the first exhibition of Filmexplorer's Video Essay Gallery, “Home Positions”. «La position couchée», by Seumboy Vrainom :€ «Home When You Return», by Carl Elsaesser «Hinterlasse Spuren (Leaving Traces)», by Sara Čolić Among the topics of the discussion: home as the uncanny place of defamiliarization, discomfort in embodiment and memory, trusting the experimental and amateur approach as revelatory, video essay as post-cinematic experience, video-essay as opening the potentialities of cinema, video essay as another form of temporality and the role of community in defining video essay.
Episode Notes Please rate, review, and/or subscribe on Apple Podcasts to help promote this show! You can explore all of my podcasts, including over 200 hours of Patreon content, on my website https://www.lostinthemovies.com/p/film-in-focus.html & https://www.lostinthemovies.com/p/film-capsule.html EPISODE LINKS Double INSOMNIA (video essay by Kevin B. Lee) https://vimeo.com/196761961 The muddled message of The Dark Knight Rises (my essay on Lost in the Movies) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2012/07/the-muddled-message-of-dark-knight-rises.html MY RECENT WORK Twin Peaks Cinema: Belladonna of Sadness (Traumatic Transformations #1) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2022/04/belladonna-of-sadness-as-twin-peaks.html Twin Peaks Conversations w/ Twin Peaks Fanatic creator Mya McBriar, part 1 on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8kPdKqiGV4 + intro/cross-post: https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2022/04/twin-peaks-conversations-9-w-twin-peaks.html PATREON ($5/month): Twin Peaks Conversations w/ Twin Peaks Fanatic author Mya McBriar, part 2 https://www.patreon.com/posts/64211354 ($1/month) Episode 90: Listener Feedback (Twin Peaks subjects include Sleeping Beauty connections, was The Return a passion project?, Fire Walk With Me's subversion of intent, ironic vs. sincere responses, Cooper's identity in flux & more + Snow White & Sleeping Beauty archive reading) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2022/04/april-2022-patreon-podcast-lost-in.html / Twin Peaks Character Series intro & minor characters (exclusive advance) https://www.patreon.com/posts/twin-peaks-intro-65487755 / Twin Peaks Character Series 30 runners-up from season 3 (exclusive advance) https://www.patreon.com/posts/twin-peaks-30-up-65688906 NEW ON THE SITE Twin Peaks Character Series previews begin on Patreon https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2022/04/twin-peaks-character-series-previews.html / THE ARCHIVE Chapter 40: Winter is for Wrapping Up (January - April 2022) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/p/chapter-40.html PREVIOUSLY ON THIS PODCAST The Wrestler https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2022/04/the-wrestler-lost-in-movies-podcast-40.html This episode's home page on my site will be active on Thursday, May 5 at 8am: https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2022/05/the-prestige-lost-in-movies-podcast-41.html This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
02/10, sábado Não Haverá Mais Noite e Canções Engarrafadas 1-4 são filmes ensaios que trabalham a partir de materiais preexistentes para propor reflexões sobre a sociedade de vigilância e o estatuto da imagem na atualidade. Não Haverá Mais Noite, de Éléonore Weber, foi todo realizado a partir de imagens capturadas por soldados norte-americanos e franceses quando em ação no Iraque, na Síria e no Afeganistão; Canções Engarrafadas 1-4, de Chloé-Galibert Laine e Kevin B. Lee, é estruturado como uma troca de cartas entre os realizadores a partir de um vídeo de propaganda concebido e difundido pelo Estado Islâmico. Nessa roda de conversa, Éléonore Weber e Chloé-GaliberLain efalam sobre seus métodos de trabalho e desafios de realização. Convidadas: Éléonore Weber–diretora do longa Não Haverá Mais Noite | FRANÇA Chloé-GalibertLaine–diretora do longa Canções Engarrafadas 1-4 | FRANÇA Mediador:Pedro Butcher – curador CineBH e colaborador Brasil CineMundi |RJ
Support us by subscribing on Patreon - now with new benefit packages, including opportunities to appear on They Coined It! "Not a Goddamn Thing Changes" explores Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency. FROM THE BLOG: On disabilities On genre/Tarantino ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Mad Men Moments by Kevin B. Lee Lawnmower scene - oral history Buy Carousel, which has a great section on Man Walks In ... VINTAGE REVIEWS Alan Sepinwall Mo Ryan Amanda Marcotte Graphics - Albert Stern (stickrust arts) Theme written and composed by Adam Michael Tilford (Venmo: @Adam-Tilford-1) Editing - Roberta Lipp How to find us: Questions/Comments/Dirty Jokes: Questions@TheyCoinedItPod.com Social Media Instagram Twitter Facebook
The second episode of On Your Screen is dedicated to Monographs, a video essay series on Asian cinema commissioned by the Asian Film Archive. Will sits down with Thong Kay Wee and Viknesh Kobinathan, who are programmers at the Asian Film Archive and the coordinators of Monographs, to discuss the series. Monographs will screen alongside Kevin B. Lee's video essay "Explosive Paradox" online via the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art until May 2, 2021. Stream the program here. To learn more about the program, and to get in touch with Viknesh and Kay Wee about screening Monographs at your festival or venue, visit the Asian Film Archive website. Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter.
The third episode! Ross is back, and he hasn't watched it, so me, Andrea and Oscar try and summarise it for him. Also includes a good story by Ross about catching a mouse.Woman captures dramatic video driving through flames while fleeing Woolsey Fire in Malibu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR0RQ8Gx6I0Watching The Pain of Others - https://vimeo.com/298425068Desktop Documentaries Tutorial with Kevin B. Lee - https://vimeo.com/500495238
Today's show is (in part) dedicated to the 2020 Sight & Sound poll of the year's best video essays. Will is joined by the co-curators of the poll, Cydnii Wilde Harris, Grace Lee, and Ariel Avissar to discuss what it was like putting the poll together in the year of quarantine. The episode also features commentary from Oswald Iten, Kevin B. Lee, Shannon Strucci, Thomas Flight, and Scout Tafoya, who provide short audio reflections that expand upon their own selections in the year's poll. Finally, Will talks with Kevin B. Lee about an innovate new master's program he is starting at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany. Kevin talks about his plans for the program and the future of video essays. Music: Transition Time by Rowan Jane is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License. | Brain Power by Mela is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License. | Accessed via Free Music Archive.
"Seen & Heard: Selections from the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist" was a live event recorded as part of the Open City Documentary Festival on September 12, 2020. The event was co-moderated by Cydnii Wilde Harris, Kevin B. Lee, and Will DiGravio, and featured interviews with Jazmin Jones, Professor Flowers, Nzingha Kendall, and Cydnii. Learn more at www.thevideoessay.com/blacklivesmatter.
Kevin B. Lee's Website Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, media artist, and critic. He has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning Transformers: The Premake introduced the “desktop documentary” format, was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound and screened in many festivals including Berlin Critics Week, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Viennale International Film Festival. Through Bottled Songs, his collaborative project with Chloé Galibert-Laîné, he was awarded the 2018 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Grant, the 2018 European Media Artist Platform Residency, and the 2019 Eurimages Lab Project Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. He was 2017 Artist in Residence of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. In 2019 he produced “Learning Farocki”, a series of video essays on Harun Farocki, commissioned by the Goethe Institut. In 2020 he is co-curating the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist with Will DiGravio and Cydnii Wilde Harris. He was Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor from 2011-2016, supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He is Professor of Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.
This week's guest is Grace Lee, who operates the popular video essay channel, What's So Great About That? on YouTube. Grace and host Will DiGravio talk about how Grace's fine art background influences her video essays, what it is like having one's video essay go viral, how to please the YouTube algorithm, and discuss her essay, "Feathered Foes: Birds in Horror." They also discuss the desktop documentary "Reading//Binging//Benning" by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee.
We’ve been compiling this episode for about 6 months now and we’ve conducted interviews in New York, Bristol, The Shetland Islands and via Skype. We hope our delve into film criticism is worth the wait. Thank you firstly to our participants, so generous with their time and thoughts. A huge thank you also to our roving reporter Charlotte Crofts for the amazing interview with Tara Judah featured in the episode, and others we couldn’t manage to get in. Thank you finally to our listeners who suggested this episode. The wealth of material we got was overwhelming so look out for all the interviews being uploaded in January while we are on our winter break. That should keep you going in the cold winter months. Participants Tara Judah https://tarajudah.com/ @midnightmovies Sam Fragoso http://talkeasypod.com/ @SamFragoso Simran Hans https://www.theguardian.com/profile/simran-hans @heavier_things Ashley Clark http://www.bfi.org.uk/people/ashley-clark @_Ash_Clark Violet Lucca https://www.filmcomment.com/author/vlucca/ @unbuttonmyeyes Mark Kermode https://www.theguardian.com/profile/markkermode @KermodeMovie Prof. Linda Ruth Williams https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/film/staff/lwilliams/ @lindaruth1 Tom Shone http://tomshone.blogspot.co.uk/ @Tom_Shone Roll of Honour All the critics given shout outs across our interviews... Sophie Mayer, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Cerise Howard, Emma Westwood, Thomas Caldwell, Josh Nelson, Jack Sargeant, Dana Linssen, Kees Driessen, Rüdiger Suchsland, Adrian Martin, Catherine Grant, Cristina Alvarez Lopez, Kevin B. Lee, Michael Wood, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Robin Wood, Victor Perkins, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Hadley Freeman, Marina Hyde, Ren Zelen, Christina Newland, Molly Haskell, Ashley Clark, James Baldwin, Graham Greene, Cahiers Critics, Bogdanovich & Schrader, Toby Hazlet, Violet Lucca, Doreen St. Felix, Jia Tolentino, Vinson Cunningham, Hilton Als, Wendy Ide, Simran Hans, Guy Lodge, Pauline Kael, Kim Newman, Roger Ebert, Andrew Sarris, Alan Jones, J Hoberman, Anne Billson, Kate Muir, Kay Austin Collins, Ira Madison, Alyssa Wilkinson, Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robertson, Tim Grierson, Anjelica Jade, Nathan Heller, Jeremy O’Harris, Hunter Harris, Wesley Morris, Nick Pinkerton, Eric Hynes, Badlands Film Collective, AO Scott, Anthony Lane, David Edelstein, Elvis Mitchell, Amy Taubin, Christian Lorentzen, Senses of Cinema, Four Columns and Reverse Shot. The incidental music for this episode is from Giorgio Gaslini's score for Antonioni's La Notte.
How can you successfully integrate exposition into your story? In Draft Zero's first two part episode, Stu & Chas take an in-depth look at one of screenwriting's most common challenges: EXPOSITION. For many stories there are pre-existing facts that need to be communicated to the audience — whether those facts be about the rules of the world, the nature of a location, character motivations, character backstories or just character names. So how have great writers made exposition move the story forward, rather than stopping it to tell the audience stuff they need to know? To that end, in Part 1 of Excelling At Exposition we break down scenes from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, SHORT TERM 12, INSIDE OUT, THE WORLD'S END, THE BIG SHORT, IT FOLLOWS, JURASSIC PARK and JURASSIC WORLD. Audio quotations are included for educational purposes. Many thanks to /r/screenwriting for suggesting so many examples. EPISODE LINKS On the Page: Ep 457. Terry Rossio Compiled PDF of all Screenplays Excerpts PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL by Ted Elliot & Terry Rossio Find it on JustWatch SHORT TERM 12 by Destin Daniel Cretton Find it on JustWatch INSIDE OUT story by Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen; Screenplay by Pete Docter & Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley Find it on JustWatch THE WORLD'S END by Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright Find it on JustWatch THE BIG SHORT screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay Fandor: Who Deserves the 2016 for Best Picture by Kevin B. Lee Video Essayists - Nerd Writer & Every Frame A Painting IT FOLLOWS by David Robert Mitchell Find it on JustWatch JURASSIC PARK screenplay by David Koepp, based on the novel by Michael Crichton and on an adaptation by Michael Crichton and Malia Scotch Marmo Find it on JustWatch JURASSIC WORLD by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly, story by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver Find it on JustWatch Draft Zero: DZ-15: World Building Rules, Okay? Please send feedback to ask at draft-zero.com, via our web form or twitter @draft_zero We are @chasffisher and @stuwillis on twitter. Please considering rating or subscribing to us on iTunes! or sharing us on the Social Medias! We like finding new listeners.
‘Funny looking’ is a perfectly good way to describe, say, Steve Buscemi in FARGO – or countless other memorable characters that make up the Coen Bros. universe. With their latest, HAIL, CAESAR!, Josh and Adam consider the whole funny looking bunch and force themselves to pick their Top 5 Coen Bros. Characters. Plus, a review of HAIL, CAESAR!, Massacre Theatre and more! This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. 0:00-3:17 - Billboard / Sponsors3:24-33:19 - Review: "Hail Caesar!"Music: Josh Rouse, "You Walked Through the Door"33:19-46:58 - Notes / Massacre Theatre46:58-53:48 – Top 5: Coen Bros Characters.Music: Josh Rouse, "Some Days I’m Golden All Night"1:03:00-1:11:19 - Donations1: 11:19 -1:33:46 - Top 5: Coen Characters cont.1:33:46-1:36:02 - Close MUSIC - Josh Rouse NOTES Massacre Theatre winner: Beth Etter, Twin Cities, MN CORRECTIONS - Yes, Adam said "Llewyn" Moss when he meant "Llewelyn" Moss. LINKS - Mike Nichols quote about directing - Josh's review of "Hail, Caesar!" - Indiewire's Best Coen Brothers Characters - Rolling Stone's 25 Best Coen Characters - Kevin B. Lee's "Big Short" video essay - Laura's Squarespace quilting website - Mary-marry-merry merger - Kate chiding Rooney on Kimmel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Including a Book-Spoiler Free Discussion of Game of Thrones, Season 4 This week, Katey, David, Da7e and Patches have peeped the TRANSFORMERS PREMAKE by Kevin B. Lee and want to talk about blockbuster filmmaking in the world economy (of course!). Then, David has a report from the Seattle International Film Festival that turns into a hearty […]
When Peter sat down to do a video essay on his own a few years back, he primarly studied and examined the work of Kevin B. Lee. Luckily, Peter has gotten to know Kevin, and was thankful to sit him down for a podcast while in Chicago last month. Kevin explains his long winded path into filmmaking and finally film criticism. The two discuss the art and process of making video essays, the importance and frustrations with film canons, and his work in highlighting the work of independent Chinese filmmakers. Finally, they open up a can of worms with Richard Linklater's Slacker, a film Kevin describes as similar to today's Facebook and Twitter feeds. 0:00-1:20 Opening1:20-4:22 Establishing Shots - Side Effects5:20-1:14:10 Deep Focus - Kevin B. Lee1:15:33-1:45:12 Double Exposure - Slacker (Richard Linklater)1:45:13-1:48:57 Trivia Round, Close, and Outtake
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