Today's episode features a conversation with Barbara Zecchi, a feminist film scholar, critic, festival curator, and video essayist.  Barbara has published and lectured extensively on European and Latin American cinemas, women filmmakers, feminist film theory, adaptation theory, gender and aging studies, videographic criticism, and on the use of technology in the humanities. Since 2016 she has served as Associate Member of The Film Academy of Spain (Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España).  Will and Emily chat with Barbara about a number of topics, including her background and videographic origin story, the GynoCine Project, the "accented" video essay, and several of Barbara's own works. We focus specifically on Barbara's recent video, "Filling (Feeling) the Archival Void: the case of Helena Cortesina’s Flor de España." Barbara, who is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, also discusses the upcoming conference, "Theory and Practice of the Video-Essay: an International Conference on Videographic Criticism."  [2:03] - Barbara's Origin Story  [4:55] - Artists and video essayists who influenced Barbara's own work  [9:20] - Discussion of Barbara's early videographic and other moving image works  [16:18] - The GynoCine Project [19:55] - Videographic Criticism at UMass [23:15] - The Accented Video Essay [37:25] - "Filling (Feeling) the Archival Void: the case of Helena Cortesina’s Flor de España" [1:10:00] - A Videographic Book?  [1:11:30] - ""Theory and Practice of the Video-Essay: an International Conference on Videographic Criticism."  Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Music access via Free Music Archive here and here.

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].

Today's episode features a short conversation with Ariel Avissar, a lecturer, PhD student and Tisch Film School Scholar at Tel Aviv University, and the creator and curator of the ongoing TV Dictionary project. The premise of the project? Try to capture the essence of a TV series with only a single word. The task? Make a short video that pairs the dictionary definition(s) of that work with a clip or clips from a single series.  [3:20] - The origins of TV Dictionary  [7:48] - Inviting new (and experienced) video essayists to join the project [10:28] - Why so little academic videographic criticism about TV?  [14:30] - Who is contributing to the project?  [15:29] - What kinds of videos are being made?  [18:25] - How have creators responded to the process of making for the project?  [20:08] - Collaboration with the Critical Studies in Television blog [more here]   [25:13] - How to contribute to TV Dictionary  Be sure to check out the ongoing series of blog posts on the CST blog: Post 1 by Ariel; Post 2 by Dan O'Brien; Post 3 by Tomer Nechushtan And also learn more about the upcoming roundtable dedicated to the project at the upcoming CST online slow conference. The roundtable will be held at 3:15 - 4:45 pm BST and feature Libertad Gills, Catherine Grant, Evelyn Kreutzer, Johannes Binotto, Ariel Avissar and Jason Mittell. More 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 of On Your Screen features a conversation with Professor Francesca Coppa, author of the new book Vidding: A History. We discuss the history of the form, the community of primarily women creators who pioneered vidding, online fan communities, the impact of technologies like the VCR, personal editing software and YouTube had on the form, and much more. Read and learn more about the FREE, open-access book here. [1:34] - Francesca's background and scholarly interests [8:45] - What is a vid?  [13:20] - How do vidders convey the experience of watching?  [18:30] - How does vidding differ and engage with other critical modes?  [24:00] - The role various technologies have played in the history of vidding, and in particular the VCR [34:30] - The work of women creators and the ways vidding interacts with and upends "traditional" film culture [38:00] - The significance of vidding conventions [43:29] - What is a dancing vid?  [47:00] - How Francesca curated vids for the book [56:00] - Francesca's take on videographic criticism, the influence of vidding, and the role of platforms [1:09:00] - How vidders engage with remix culture and issues of piracy  [1:14:00] - Francesca's advocacy for fair use legislation  Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. A special thanks to the show's associate producer, Emily Su Bin Ko. 

Today's episode begins with perhaps the most important news in show history: Emily Su Bin Ko has joined The Video Essay Podcast as associate producer! The show starts with a conversation between Emily and Will and an introduction to Emily and her work.  The episode also features a conversation with Jordan Schonig, a lecturer at SUNY Binghamton. Schonig's work is particularly interesting in the ways it bridges divides between academic and popular videographic criticism. In 2020, Schonig founded the YouTube channel, "Film & Media Studies with Jordan Schonig," which features lecture-style videos that sometime dip into the essayistic to explore concepts in Film and Media Studies. Schonig has also published academic video essays and is the author of the new book from Oxford University Press, The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement, which features audiovisual criticism in addition to the written text. We discuss his video, "The 'Wind in the Trees' from Early Cinema to Pixar," and Grace Lee's "What Isn't a Video Essay?" 0:00 - Introducing Emily Su Bin Ko 18:50 - Jordan Schonig's Origin Story  21:44 - A Brief Encounter 27:23 - Video Camp & Working With Pretty Images 35:55 - Creating Videographic Criticism as an Early Career Researcher 41:06 - Starting a YouTube Channel 53:56 – "Lev Manovich's 'What is Digital Cinema' and 'Compositing'" 1:02:47 – Deciding Whether to Upload a Work to Vimeo  1:06:55 – "The 'Wind in the Trees' from Early Cinema to Pixar" 1:21:20 - Zooming in On the Marginal 1:25:40 - "What Isn't a Video Essay?" Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Music access via Free Music Archive here and here.

Today's episode features a conversation with Anthony Hon, the creator and curator of the popular Twitter account, Dancer on Film. We discuss Anthony's curatorial approach, how he thinks of his Twitter account as a rotating gallery, and his passion for the musical genre. Follow the account @DancerOnFilm.  On Your Screen is a relatively new show dedicated to exploring various aspects of digital film culture. The show is a companion to The Video Essay Podcast. Learn more via the show's website. Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Get the free newsletter.

Today's episode features a conversation with Thomas Flight, one of the most popular and prolific video essayists currently working on YouTube. We discuss Thomas' origin story, his audience, and how he balances paying the bills as a full-time video essayist with his passion projects. We also discuss his video essay, "The Side of Scorsese We Don't Talk About," and a fantastic video essay by fellow YouTuber, Jacob Geller, "The Game That Won't Let You See All Of It."  Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Music access via Free Music Archive here and here.

Today's episode features an interview with Maia, the YouTuber known as Broey Deschanel. Today's topics include Maia's introduction to video essays, her creative process, why YouTube is currently in a "magic moment" of virality, censorship and the YouTube algorithm, how and why to cite the work of other video essayists, why humor is funny, and much more. We also discuss Maia's video "The Liberal Escapism of Bridgerton" and BREADSWORD's 2017 video, "Treasure Planet - Disney's Biggest Mistake." 1. Maia's "origin story" and early influences, why YouTube?, the accessibility of YouTube, why it's the best time to go viral on YouTube [1:39 - 8:01] 2. The YouTube algorithm, what it censors, and how to navigate copyright, the art of the thumbnail, best practices for titling a video [8:01 - 19:46] 3. How and why to cite other video essayists and the way Maia cites and builds upon her own past work [19:47 - 27:04] 4. "The Liberal Escapism of Bridgerton," when and why Maia appears on camera, balancing the correct number of sources, humor and not taking oneself too seriously [27:04 - 48:31] 5. "Treasure Planet - Disney's Biggest Mistake," the art of sourcing and sequencing clips, how Maia writes her scripts, using active language in voiceover, why the video essay? [48:31 - end] Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter. Music access via Free Music Archive here and here. 

On Your Screen is the new monthly show about digital film culture. Today's episode features a conversation with Don McHoull, the creator of the popular Twitter account @SilentMovieGIFs. We discuss the history of the account, Don's curatorial approach, why the GIF is an ideal medium for the sharing of silent film, how content spreads on the internet, and how GIFs are helping to bring silent cinema to new audiences in the 21st century. Don also talks about his Reddit page and the viral compilation videos he has made about silent cinema on YouTube. Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter.