Ariel Avissar

We’re excited to welcome Prof. Jason Mittell (Middlebury College, USA) for two insightful sessions exploring television narrative and videographic criticism.
📅 23 October | 14:00–16:00
Guest Lecture: “Complex TV … Continued”
📍 Conti Hochhaus, Room 609

Excited to have my latest videographic experiment published in 16:9: 16-9.dk/2025/10/the-...

"There is something in its constructed-ness that seems to demand a normative reading of the video, i.e., what it is saying about this character—the wrestler—and how he is treated by the film and by himself." @arielavissar.bsky.social's fragment in our 2nd collection. fragments.video/2025/06/19/t...

Julie Andrews. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jemma Saunders (University of Birmingham) This is "Julie Andrews. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jemma Saunders (University of Birmingham)" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for…

In honour of Julie Andrews' 90th birthday tomorrow (and indeed, the 60th anniversary year of #TheSoundofMusic), here's the Screen Stars Dictionary entry I made a couple of years ago. 'Voice'.

#JulieAndrews #MaryPoppins #voice #videoessay @arielavissar.bsky.social
vimeo.com/828949634

Color | Blur (side by side) A side by side juxtaposition of Johannes Binotto's "Practices of Viewing: Color" and Richard Misek and Martine Beugnet's "In Praise…

I placed two videos (by @sennahojottonib.bsky.social, @misek.bsky.social and Martine.Beugnet) side by side, and, well.... wow: vimeo.com/1122450439

Very happy to have contributed a (35-seconds-long) fragment to the 2nd collection of @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social, alongside fragments by @drdanobrien.bsky.social, @bolddecade.bsky.social , @ursmusically.bsky.social, and others!

Our 2nd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 9 fragments (from eight creators) ranging from 35 seconds to an hour. fragments.video

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Isabella Rossellini. Screen Stars Dictionary This is "Isabella Rossellini. Screen Stars Dictionary" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love…

Screen Stars Dictionary #38: Isabella Rossellini, by @barbarazecchi.bsky.social: vimeo.com/1104219355

Ana Torrent. Screen Stars Dictionary This is "Ana Torrent. Screen Stars Dictionary" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Screen Stars Dictionary #37: Ana Torrent, by Celia Sainz: vimeo.com/1104217407

Arnold Schwarzenegger. Screen Stars Dictionary This is "Arnold Schwarzenegger. Screen Stars Dictionary" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who…

Screen Stars Dictionary #36: Arnold Schwarzenegger, by @drdanobrien.bsky.social: vimeo.com/1104220855

Diana Ross. Screen Stars Dictionary This is "Diana Ross. Screen Stars Dictionary" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Screen Stars Dictionary #35: Diana Ross, by @jaapkooijman.bsky.social: vimeo.com/1104216438

Jessica Lange. Screen Stars Dictionary This is "Jessica Lange. Screen Stars Dictionary" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Screen Stars Dictionary #34: Jessica Lange, by Flavia Soubiran: vimeo.com/1104222172

Featuring videos by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega, @newsfromnihon.bsky.social, Flavia Soubiran, @jaapkooijman.bsky.social, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, @drdanobrien.bsky.social, and Celia Sainz.

Now on Tecmerin: "Aging Stars – Fading to Dust or Shining as Stardust?", a special edition of the Screen Stars Dictionary, w/special guest curator @barbarazecchi.bsky.social!

Watch all seven wonderful pieces here: vimeo.com/showcase/118...

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.
vimeo.com/1074720429
You can find the journal at the link below
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/...

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:

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!

vimeo.com/1005534120

Two more days to join our summer project!

DM us or email to join in!
– Ariel & Colleen
arielavissar24@gmail.com / colleen.laird@gmail.com

@colleenlaird.bsky.social

🗓️ 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞:
👉 Interested? Send us a 1–2 sentence pitch by 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟑
👉 First drafts due 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟓 (with a Zoom feedback session to follow)
👉 Final drafts due 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟑𝟎 (with another Zoom session to follow early August)

Here’s the concept: each of us will make a short video (5 minutes or less) – not about a particular film on the list, but about the list itself; for example: interesting trends, gaps, odd choices, surprises, patterns... etc.

🎬 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂 𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐒! 🎬
This summer, we're diving into the New York Times' 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list — and we want you to join us! We’re very interested to see what kinds of works might come out of a collective analysis of/reflection on the same curation of films...

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"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...

"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...

"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...