@jirianger.bsky.social
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below https://qmul.academia.edu/JiriAnger
Jiří Anger’s Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up (Bloomsbury, 2024)
New day, new book review🥳 this time I had the privilege of reviewing @jirianger.bsky.social’s amazing monograph for the Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, which can be found here if you’d like to check it out: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/39XX3.... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social 🙂↕️💛
13.02.2026 09:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The online exhibition Metric Imagination, curated by @veronikahanakova.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social, is now live on Artyčok.TV "featuring five video essays that reflect on, and hint at ways of overcoming, our society’s obsession with metrics and quantification." artycok.tv/en/post/inte...
22.01.2026 08:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great new episode of The Video Essay Podcast from @willdigravio.bsky.social featuring @jirianger.bsky.social
thevideoessay.com/jiri-anger-o...
The best video essays of 2025 are here! It was a pleasure to co-organize the poll with Veronika, Occitane, and Kevin. Thanks to everyone who participated, and congratulations to those whose video essays were selected.
18.12.2025 07:41 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
For those of you engaging with the ethics of videographic criticism, atrocity footage, and/or desktop documentaries, here's an article I published in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
15.12.2025 09:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, Tanya!
13.12.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s happening! + @jirianger.bsky.social
CFP for FMH: Feminist Archaeologies of Desktop media is here 🔥
Looking for written articles as well as video essays
Send us your abstracts by October 28, 2025!
🫶 Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity 🫡
New paper out in Screen on my long-standing fascination with the so-called “bad” Woodstock, the ethics of live multi-camera broadcasting, and the importance of accidental archives.
Special thanks to @tomasjirsa.bsky.social @carobirdsall.bsky.social @veronikahanakova.bsky.social.
With @jirianger.bsky.social ~ The program of MFF 2025 is out! This is the third year that audiovisual essays will be screened on the big screen at the Marienbad Film Festival (from June 12–15).
The first block explores media gestures.
✨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT✨
The newest issue of MOVIE has just been published, and I’m excited to share that it features our audiovisual essay, A Tale of Two Desktops: The First Czech Films in Parallel Worlds, co-authored with @jirianger.bsky.social and Jiří Žák.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
@baftss.bsky.social Awards are out!
✨ Cycles of Labour won Best Videographic Criticism @veronikahanakova.bsky.social @m-tremcinsky.bsky.social
🔥 Towards a Film Theory from Below is Runner-Up, Best Monograph
Endless thanks for the support!
Throughout #BAFTSS2025 we'll be screening all of the films nominated for the Practice Awards along with a selection of films from our Outstanding Achievement Award winner, Azza El-Hassan. See the schedule below. A more detailed schedule can be downloaded here: sites.google.com/view/baftss-...
25.03.2025 10:00 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Our works have been nominated for the BAFTSS Awards!
👉 Towards a Film Theory from Below: Best Monograph
👉 Cycles of Labour: Best Videographic Criticism
@veronikahanakova.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the nominees, especially
@filmstudiesff.bsky.social
👉 www.baftss.org/awards-2025....
Yesterday evening, @jirianger.bsky.social presented his videographic criticism work (6 audiovisual essays) at ASCA, @uvahumanities.bsky.social, in the Belle van Zuylen room (the woman so prominently pictured).
06.12.2024 17:18 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
One of the works @jirianger.bsky.social presented last evening is this wonderful audiovisual essay on Natalia Oreiro which he made together with @veronikahanakova.bsky.social.
06.12.2024 17:27 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Excited that our roundtable "Beyond Electronic Publication: Expanding Venues for Videographic Scholarship" was accepted by #SCMS2025, co-chaired by me and Allison de Fren, featuring @veronikahanakova.bsky.social Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, and @jirianger.bsky.social - hoping for a dynamic conversation!
25.11.2024 22:25 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I’m super excited to share that this Friday, I’ll be presenting my book at the University of Amsterdam!
Date: November 29, 2024
Time: 14:30-17:00 hrs (CET)
Location: University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9 (BG1), room 0.16 (eLab)
Online: Teams (Meeting ID: 326 613 010 851, Passcode: pN7X4R)
Thanks for this! Could you please add me?
25.11.2024 15:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
💙 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
