Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method

Excited to announce that a Special Issue of Open Screens on the representation of Students on Screen has just dropped. It includes a special episode of The Cinematologists Podcast, articles, book reviews and a round table discussion. Some summer reading!
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TV Dictionary - The Tripods "The Tripods" in one word. Part of the TV Dictionary collection: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8660446

TV Dictionary - entry #118: The Tripods, by David Martin-Jones

Another lovely entry from David - and a reminder that, even after an entire year's hiatus, the TV Dictionary is always accepting new additions!

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The Video Essay About The Show For the past year, I’ve been working on a long-form project that I’m finally ready to share publicly. In Fall 2024, I taught a new course entitled Faking Reality: Mockumentaries, Hoaxes…

I've been working on this project for a long time and am excited to finally share "The Video Essay About The Show" publicly! It's a multipart video essay about "The Show About The Show," the cult webseries - check it out:

The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself Featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/issue/view/1380 Screening…

My new video essay featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia, the journal of the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network.
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You can find the journal at the link below
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The Holes We Left Behind This video essay has been published in Movie: a journal of criticism issue 12, and an accompanying statement can be read here.

A new video by Jacob Smith ‘The Holes We Left Behind’, which forms the latest addition to the Audiovisual Approaches and the Archive dossier in MOVIE: a journal of film criticism. vimeo.com/1099652055

Fragments captures and celebrates the videographic experimentation that might otherwise never see the light of day. Submitting to Fragments is about “letting go” and contributing to an ever expanding field of videographic enquiry that focuses on process over output. fragments.video/manifesto/

From our manifesto:
This journal/database has been created to collect Fragments of making. Videographic explorations of process, method, and experimentation (true, with no clear thought or care for the end product).

Our manifesto is a living breathing document and we've just updated it to Version 2 following the launch of our first collection of fragments. If you want to know more about our journal and our aims you can read it here fragments.video/manifesto/

"As a teaser for a video essay that has not (yet) materialised, this approach is succinct and logical but certainly leaves one with questions about what may have followed" Rich Matthews' fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/05/21/w...

"framed as it is in this Zoom interface, I imagine for many of us it is a reminder of the virtual gatherings that became so ubiquitous during the COVID lockdowns" @jemsaunders1.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/04/03/w...

Another excellent selection of new video essays

"Is this a slow videographic practice? I might even call it ‘furniture videographics’ but then that would do it a disservice." @richardlangley.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/05/01/s...

"I was genuinely excited by the idea of ‘seeing through sound’...with an immediate feeling of ‘I want to try that!’." @cormacrestrike.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/03/04/b...

"Is it an injustice to label this a fragment? It feels complete in the same way that a rhyming couplet out of context is still complete." @barbarazecchi.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find our more here fragments.video/2025/05/13/r...

"I experienced this rough cut as an archive of Will’s intentions, a showcase of how various videographic techniques were being deployed to achieve them" @willdigravio.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/04/16/p...

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.

"bringing the poetic/explanatory to the fore and then distracting us briefly from it by having AI battle it out for our very videographic souls." @colleenlaird.bsky.social & @daynarama.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more fragments.video/2025/05/21/g...

SUPERB! The Film Atlas is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is - or aims to be - an interactive global map of the history of film technology. The site has just gone live and it is free to use for all.
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"haunting, unsettling and alludes to both the ethical and technical concerns that can arise when working with materials and software"
Johannes Binotto's - @sennahojottonib.bsky.social -‬ fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here
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We'd be excited to see them, thanks

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

The Video Essay Podcast returns!

@jmittell.bsky.social joins to discuss his new videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad, the first in a series he edits for Lever Press.

Listen here:

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