Cormac Donnelly

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:

A wonderful new research/writing/thinking tool for moving image work. Bravo

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
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"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...

Hello old friend. On television now in the UK. And all the grain is gone? Or is this me remembering it differently?

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

Fellow film tech nerds, today I'm launching a brand new demo debunking some common misconceptions about so-called "HDR" colorspace. Up now on my website.
#NerdyFilmTechStuff
www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR

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:

thevideoessay.com/jason-mittel...

Screenshot of the journal's homepage featuring the cover picture of the latest issue, the journal's logo and description

New issue of @intransition.bsky.social is here! Issue 11.4 features 10 peer-reviewed video essays on queer spectatorship, vampires, pop music in fanvids, female subjectivity in socialist cinema, unfulfilled love stories, and more. Check them out: intransition.openlib...

Can't possibly skip Christmas dinner so I better get watching! 😉

The best video essays of 2024 From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.

The Sight and Sound video essay poll for 2024 is out! My first time voting which was a real honour (thanks to the organisers for inviting me). Something for everyone in here. Enjoy!
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A fabulous collection of new video essay work here.

Brand new issue up with 10 video essays!!! Check them out:
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Reinstating the office cd player is genuinely the best decision I've made in a long time

Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth Author: Cormac Donnelly Format: Videographic PortfolioDuration: 9′ 58″; 88′ 07″ & 34′ 53″ Published: October 2024 https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/15.1/1

Check out @cormacrestrike.bsky.social's “Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth” at SCREENWORKS, a videographic portfolio that questions the extent to which a scholar (the creator) might go before they consider a piece of videographic research to be ‘complete’ www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...

The reason Hong Kong action films used to be the most kinetic? In the words of the late David Bordwell:

A black and white photo of Alfonso Cuarón standing behind a window. The text ALFONSO CUARON VIDEO ESSAYS is overlaid.

On November 28, 1961, Alfonso Cuarón was born. He has directed just eight feature films but often does double duty on his movies. He's won Academy awards as director, producer, editor and cinematographer.
Here's a selection of half o dozen video essays to celebrate his birthday.
🧵📽️ #filmsky

The Rhythms of Rage: from Solitude to Solidarity Rage possesses a formidable ability to catalyze revolutions, spur transformative change, and magnify voices. Yet, its expression is not uniformly accessible to all.…

The angry cadence of THE RHYTHMS OF RAGE is both catchy and cathartic. @barbarazecchi.bsky.social mixes dozens of film and tv clips of enraged women into a video essay that pulses powerfully.

We invite contributions to “𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭”, a special edition of the ScreenStarsDictionary dedicated to aging actors. Please send an email with your idea to Barbara (bzecchi@umass.edu), Ariel (arielavissar24@gmail.com) and Vicente (vrortega@hum.uc3m.es) by 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐, 2025

Starting my thread of pauses again

On the left, the cover of the latest issue of The Soundtrack journal, white background, with cutouts from a screenplay with certain words highlighted in yellow, blue, and green. On the right, a still from Season 4 of STRANGER THINGS showing Vecna, the big bad guy, who is a humanoid/zombie monster with gnarled grey skin and evil milky eyes. The caption below reads "wet footsteps squelch."

Hark, do I hear "eldritch gurgling"? Or a "wet squelch"? The Soundtrack's latest has essays on how sound & screenplay blend together in ENYS MEN + the sound captioning in STRANGER THINGS & THE LAST OF US. @kingsleymarshall.bsky.social James Deaville #horror
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