Based in part on a list compiled by Jennifer M Bean (UW Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Histories) ## Exercises ## Videographic Resources [Screen Stars Dictionary](https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/screen-stars-dictionary/?lang=en "Link"), in Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays [TV Dictionary](https://vimeo.com/showcase/8660446), hosted on Vimeo, organized and curated by Ariel Avissar ### Sight and Sound Best Video Essays [2024](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-video-essays-2024): Barbara Zecchi - [The Rhythms of Rage: From Solitude to Solidarity](https://vimeo.com/922779200)  Lily Ford - [Light Hands](https://vimeo.com/921996906) Occitane Lacurie - [xena’s body (a menstrual auto-investigation using an iphone)](https://vimeo.com/879454111) Occitane Lacurie - [Ordinatrices: About the Negative Spaces of Early Computing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-FwBeohmfo)  Alison Peirse - [Knit One, Stab Two](https://vimeo.com/1001721979). [2023](https://www.bfi.org.uk/polls/best-video-essays-2023), [2022 ](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-video-essays-2022) , [ 2021](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-video-essays-2021) ### Video Essayists [Adrian Martin](https://vimeo.com/regularlovers) [Allison de Fren](https://mediacommons.org/user/4141) [Ariel Avissar](https://www.arielavissar.work/) [Barbara Zecchi](https://vimeo.com/barbarazecchi) [Catherine Grant](https://vimeo.com/filmstudiesff) [Cristina Álvarez López](https://mediacommons.org/user/3407) [Cydnii Wilde Harris](https://vimeo.com/cydniiwildeharris) David Verdeure [Dayna McLeod](https://daynarama.com/category/video-essays) [Drew Morton](https://vimeo.com/user15915571) [Erlend Lavik](https://vimeo.com/user11123404) [Evelyn Kreutzer](https://vimeo.com/evelynkreutzer) [Ian Garwood](https://vimeo.com/user18948906) [Jaap Kooijman](https://vimeo.com/user41120367) [Johannes Binotto](https://vimeo.com/entstellungen) [Katie Bird](https://vimeo.com/katiebird) [Kevin B. Lee](https://vimeo.com/kevinblee) [Kogonada](https://kogonada.com/) [Leigh Singer](http://www.leighsinger.com/film-and-video/video-essays/) [Liz Greene](https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=9Cke7rsAAAAJ&hl=en) [Luís Azevedo](https://www.youtube.com/@TheAtoZReviewBlog/videos) Miklós Kiss [Occitane Lacurie](https://vimeo.com/lacurieo) [Patrick Keating](https://vimeo.com/user41751682) [Thomas Flight](https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasFlight/videos) [Tracy Cox-Stanton](https://vimeo.com/tracycoxstanton) [Will DiGravio](https://vimeo.com/willdigravio) ### Reading List Spatz, Ben. “Techniques of Videographic Thought.” _Journal of Embodied Research_ 5, no. 1 (2022). [https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.9315](https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.9315). [Video](https://jer.openlibhums.org/article/id/9315/) Berg, Thomas van den, and Miklós Kiss. [_Film Studies in Motion: From Audiovisual Essay to Academic Research Video_](https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/film-studies-in-motion-from-audiovisual-essay-to-academic-researc). Scalar, 2016. Grant, Catherine. “How Long Is a Piece of String? On the Practice, Scope and Value of Videographic Film Studies and Criticism.” November 23-24, 2013. [Transcript, Slides & Videos Online](https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/frankfurt-papers/catherine-grant/](https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/frankfurt-papers/catherine-grant/) [Audio File](https://scalar.usc.edu/works/film-studies-in-motion/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string-on-the-practice-scope-and-value-of-videographic-film-studies-and-criticism-a-talk-by-catherine-grant) Garwood, Ian. “From ‘Video Essay’ to ‘Video Monograph’?: Indy Vinyl as Academic Book - NECSUS,” June 15, 2020. [https://necsus-ejms.org/from-video-essay-to-video-monograph-indy-vinyl-as-academic-book/](https://necsus-ejms.org/from-video-essay-to-video-monograph-indy-vinyl-as-academic-book/). Greene, Liz. “Researching Audiovisually: Experiments in Videographic Criticism in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet.” In _Networked David Lynch_, edited by Marcel Hartwig, Andreas Rauscher, and Peter Niedermüller, 209–35. Critical Perspectives on Cinematic Transmediality. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv32vqhkt.17](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv32vqhkt.17). Keathley, Christian. _The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image_. Second revised and Expanded edition. Kino-Agora. Montréal: Caboose, 2019. Loock, Kathleen. “In Search of Academic Legitimacy: The Video Essay Between Disciplines, Online Film Culture, and Traditional Text-Based Scholarship,” n.d. Lavik, Erlend. “Notes on the Scholarliness of Videography,” n.d. - [In Search of Academic Legitimacy: The Video Essay Between Disciplines,C](http://www.thecine-files.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/KLoock_TheCineFiles_issue15.pdf)_ineFiles_ (Fall 2020), issue 15, by Kathleen Lock, part of dossier on “[What Makes a Video Essay Scholarly?](http://www.thecine-files.com/what-makes-a-video-essay-scholarly/)”; all entries recommended - [Introduction to the Video Essay: A Child of Two Mothers](https://necsus-ejms.org/introduction-audiovisual-essay-child-two-mothers/), Adrian Martin and Christina Lopez, _NECSUS_ (December 2014) - [Introductory Guide to Video Essays , ](https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/resources/guides/video-essays/)_Learning on Screen_ (an online guidebook for creating and publishing audiovisual essays)  - [The Audiovisual Research Essay as an Alternative to Text-Based Scholarship, ](http://mediacommons.org/intransition/comment/33#comment-33)Miklós Kiss,  (2014) 1.3 _[in]Transition_.   - [The Video Essay: The Future of Academic Film and Television Criticism?](http://framescinemajournal.com/articl...\)...bandwidth) (2012), Erlend Lavik, _Frames Cinema Journal_. Bandwidth of journal exceeded; currently inoperable (April 2023) - [Videographic Criticism as Digital Humanities Method,](https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5749/j.ctvg251hk.23.pdf?acceptTC=true&coverpage=false&addFooter=false) by Jason Mittell in _Debates in the Digital Humanities_ (2018) Kiss, Miklós. / **Videographic criticism in the classroom : Research method and communication mode in scholarly practice**. In: The Cine-Files. 2020 ; Vol. fall 2020, No. 15. [online](https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/videographic-criticism-in-the-classroom-research-method-and-commu) ### Peer Review Journals [16:9 filmtidsskrift](http://www.16-9.dk/?s=video+essay) Danish film studies journal, publish around 5 essays each year in English [The Cine-Files](http://thecine-files.com/)**,** open access; scholarly journal published by Cinema Studies program at Savannah College of Art and Design.  Video essays might not be peer reviewed in same manner as scholarly “feature essays.”  Founding editor Tracy Cox-Stanton _[Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal](https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/9/4),_ special issue on Videographic Criticism (fall 2023) [Frames Cinema Journal](https://framescinemajournal.com/) launched 2012 by University of St. Andrews, open access, also publishes POV essays, feature essays, book reviews and more.  The 2012 issue devoted to work on “video essays,” edited by Catherine Grant, one of the first in the field. [Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media](https://www.frameworknow.com/audio-visual) longstanding film studies journal now carries audio-visual segment; current senior editor Drake Stutesman (NY); editor Susan Potter (Sydney) [ \[in\]Transition](https://intransition.openlibhums.org/), see also, [old site](http://mediacommons.org/intransition), a collaboration between _Media Commons_ and _Journal of Cinema and Media Studies_; double peer review, open access; quarterly publications [Mise-en-Scene: the Journal of Film & Visual Narration](https://journals.kpu.ca/index.php/msq: founded in 2016; open access, open review, academic journal focused on artistry of the frame as storytelling technique; sponsored by Kwantlen Polytechnic University. [Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/movie)**,** rolling publication; annual, based in UK [Music, Sound and the Moving Image](https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/msmi): Only video essays are open access (other behind a paywall); Liverpool University Press; founded 2009; current editors Liz Greene, Neepa Majumdar and Ben Winters; video essays as of winter 2022 launched with E. Kreutzer’s [Footsteps](https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/msmi.2022.7) [NECSUS](https://necsus-ejms.org/), biannual, open access; double blind review; associated with NECS: European Network for Cinema and Media Studies [Screenworks](https://screenworks.org.uk/), peer review online journal of practice research in screen media; publishes an array of “video art” as well as video essays; like _[in]transitions_ also publishes peer reviews alongside research statement.  Journal launched in 2006 as part of _Journal of Media Practice_ published by Intellect Books; moved to current website in 2016, sponsored by Moving Images Research Group and Digital Cultures Research Centre at University of West of England, Bristol.  Founding editor Charlotte Crofts.   [Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays](https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/en/journal), open access; published biannually by the research group Tecmerin (Television, Cinema, Memory, Representation and Industry) of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.  Bilingual website in Spanish & English #### Special issues [Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities: Video Essays](https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/issue/view/523)", special issue of _Academic Quarter/Akademisk Kwarter_ (fall 2024) Iluminace: The Journal of Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics, , special issue on [CONFIGURING COMPUTER LABOR IN FILM AND AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA](https://iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2024/mn2.php) [_Monstrum: Journal of Horror Studies_](https://www.monstrum-society.ca/journal--revue.html), special issue on Videographic Criticism expected December 2024 ### Non-Peer Review Journals and Websites [Audiovisualcy](https://vimeo.com/groups/audiovisualcy)**,** Audiovisual Essay playlist on Vimeo, organized by Catherine Grant, described as “an online forum for video essays or works of audiovisual screen studies that have an analytical, critical, reflexive or scholarly purpose; fully attribute all sources used; are made according to Fair Use principles; are non-commercial in nature.” [Film Studies for Free](https://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/), blog run by Catherine Grant since 2008, dedicated to open access, high quality ideas about film studies with emphasis on audiovisual essays and related critical work. [MUBI Notebook](https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/tag/The%20Video%20Essay?page=1), video essays published every June, since 2017 [Desistfilm](https://desistfilm.com/category/videoessays) (Spanish language) [Notes on Videographic Criticism Substack](https://thevideoessay.substack.com/) [Filmscalpel](https://www.filmscalpel.com/best-practices/) ([vimeo](https://vimeo.com/filmscalpel)) ### Exemplary: #### **—As Shot/Sequence Analysis** Barbara Zecchi, "[Queering Gentlemen Prefer Blondes](https://vimeo.com/751386510)" Dayna McLeod, "[Wild at Heterosexuality](https://daynarama.com/wild-at-heterosexuality-voice-over-video-essay/)" Catherine Grant, "[Un/Contained: A Video Essay on Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (2009)](https://vimeo.com/filmstudiesff)" #### **—As Auteur Study**  Ken Provencher, "[Wong Kar-wai's Sleepers](https://mediacommons.org/intransition/wong-kar-wai%E2%80%99s-sleepers)" Evelyn Kreutzer, "[Footsteps](https://vimeo.com/525008570)" #### **—As Compare/Contrast Analysis** Maud Ceuterick, "[Resilient Aging Women: A Question of Performance](https://intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/15443/)" Maria Hoffman, "[Maria's Maria"](https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/marias-maria/?lang=en) #### **—As Historical and Cultural Analysis** Terri Francis, "[Josephine Baker Watches Herself](https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/32/197468/Josephine-Baker-Watches-Herself)"  Katie Bird, "[Feeling and Thought as They Take Form: Early Steadicam, Labor and Technology, 1974-1985](https://intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/11271/)" Liz Greene, "[Spencer Bell, Nobody Knows My Name](https://www.openscreensjournal.com/article/id/8160/)" #### multi-screen "[Deja Viewing?: Videographic Experiments in Intertextual Film Studies](https://uclamediascapearchive.erraticplay.com/Winter2013_DejaViewing.html)" Catherine Grant, in _Mediascape_ (winter 2013). Multi-screen employed comparatively, and thus as intertextual thinking.   [Supercut of Supercuts: Aesthetics, Histories, Databases](https://openscreensjournal.com/article/id/6946) Max Tohline, in _Open Screens_ (2021). Multi-screen employed in supercuts, and thus as data-oriented thinking.    [Cut, Paste, Glitch, and Stutter: Remixing Film History](https://framescinemajournal.com/article/cut-paste-glitch-and-stutter)  Katherine Groo, in _Frames Cinema Journal_ (2012) Multi-screen employed in remixes, and thus as meta-historical thinking.  [My Mulholland Drive](https://www.thecine-files.com/on-mulholland-drive/) (Jessica McGoff, _Cine-Files_), 15 min [A History of the World According to Getty Images](https://mediacommons.org/intransition/history-world-according-getty-images) (Richard Misek_, [In]Transition_), 18 m [With a Camera in Hand, I Was Alive](https://necsus-ejms.org/with-a-camera-in-hand-i-was-alive/) (Katie Bird, _NECSUS_), 10 min [Light Hands](https://vimeo.com/921996906) (Lily Ford, Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism), 7 min [Re-Animating the Vanishing Woman](https://mediacommons.org/intransition/re-animating-vanishing-woman-invisible-labour-embodied-gesture) (Paola Voci, _[In]Transition_), 12.5 min [The Present is the Past is the Present](https://www.16-9.dk/2024/10/the-present-is-the-past-is-the-present/) (Steven Sehman, _16:9_), 5 min [Vampire Optics](https://intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/16870/) (Allan Cameron, _[In]Transition_), 15 min [In Comparison](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sdW-2ALWrw) (Harun Farocki, YouTube), 11.5 min [Queering Gentlemen Prefer Blondes](https://vimeo.com/751386510) (Barbara Zecchi, _[In]Transition_), 4 min [What Makes a Video Essay Great?](https://vimeo.com/199577445) Kevin B. Lee, 2014 ### Desktop Documentaries [TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (a desktop documentary)](https://vimeo.com/groups/essay/videos/94101046) Kevin B. Lee, 2014 [A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFfq2zblGXw) (Tony Zhou, Every Frame a Painting, 2014) [Desktop Documentaries Tutorial with Kevin B. Lee](https://vimeo.com/500495238)   [Screen Stories Library](https://www.alsolikelife.com/screenstories) [Reading//Binging//Benning ](https://vimeo.com/252840859) Kevin B. Lee/Chloe Galibert-Laine in 2018  [With a Camera in Hand (I was Alive)](https://vimeo.com/521933977) [Desktop Documentary as Scholarly Subjectivity: Five Approache](https://necsus-ejms.org/desktop-documentary-as-scholarly-subjectivity-five-approaches/) Avissar's desktop documentary _about_ the four desktop documentaries in the issue. 2023 issue of NECSUS. [Desktop documentary: From artefact to artist(ic) emotion.](https://necsus-ejms.org/desktop-documentary-from-artefact-to-artistic-emotions/) Miklos Kiss, 2021 ---------------------------------- [Desktop or Phone-Based Videos.](https://vimeo.com/showcase/7859780?page=2)   -----------------------------------  Ariel Avissar, [This is Not What I Normally Do: An Insignificant Step in the Downfall of the Humanities](https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1804813/files/134303120?wrap=1 "1+This+is+not+what+I+normally+do+Avissar.pdf") [Download This is Not What I Normally Do: An Insignificant Step in the Downfall of the Humanities](https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1804813/files/134303120/download?download_frd=1)," which was published in a special issue of _Academic Quarter_ (fall 2024).  This video essay and accompanying creator's statement emerged from the Embodying the Video Essay workshop at Bowdoin College in 2023. ## Tools [ffmpeg examples](https://hhsprings.bitbucket.io/docs/programming/examples/ffmpeg/index.html) [ffmeg explorer](https://ffmpeg.lav.io/) [youtube2Webpage](https://github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpage)