@willdigravio.bsky.social
researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history critic: Paste, Time, etc. assistant editor, Cineaste PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam The Video Essay Podcast views mine www.willdigravio.com
For Millennium Film Journal, my thoughts on three found footage films from this yearβs Prismatic Ground:
millenniumfilmjournal.com/los-angeles-...
Thank you, Will!
And yes, pre-order here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
For nearly two years, I worked as the researcher on @elliotwilliams.bsky.socialβs new book, FIVE BULLETS, a history of βsubway vigilanteβ Bernie Goetz, his trial, and 1980s NYC!
Itβs as timely as it is captivating!
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
reminding myself that every extra freelance gig is one step closer to paying off my student loans/buying an eames lounge chair
17.10.2025 00:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs not a sports documentary until an interviewee says the subject was βplaying chess while everybody else was playing checkersβ
01.10.2025 23:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0should be mandated in every classroom throughout our great land
19.09.2025 21:27 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0βIt is in the final scene, in which Lloydβs character completes a dashing run to win the big game, where the film distinguishes itself as a masterpieceβ,β Β β¨@willdigravio.bsky.social writes of βThe Freshmanβ: crookedmarquee.com/with-pure-gu...
19.09.2025 15:05 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
Hell. Yes. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/spaceba...
04.09.2025 21:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very excited to have been apart of this story, but perhaps even more happy to have my academic freedom at Boston University.
29.07.2025 18:11 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.
18.07.2025 19:50 β π 27 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
βFor the last five seconds, we all lay there, quietly waiting for what seemed an eternity,β Edward Teller recalls in this @politico.com excerpt abt the Trinity explosion, 80 years ago this week, from my new oral history of the Manhattan Project & the atomic bombings. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
19.07.2025 17:47 β π 56 π 13 π¬ 1 π 1βThe layering of images, combined with the cartoon-like set design, achieves an effect that is a blending of worlds: half-real, half-animation.β @willdigravio.bsky.social on the beloved Kelly-and-Jerry dance sequence in βAnchors Aweighβ: crookedmarquee.com/gene-kelly-j...
15.07.2025 01:26 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1My thoughts on the best (and worst) moments in late night TV (so far) this year! For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...
Today I start a 6-month sabbatical, where my goals are to disengage from academic politics (after chairing our Faculty Council for the past tumultuous year), wander about Europe as much as possible, and write a book / make video essays about media reflexivity. Like this!
youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs
Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the βguest hostβ tradition.
23.06.2025 07:29 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0πβ οΈ @theguardian.com named @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.comβs LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET a podcast of the week. Out Tuesdayβsubscribe now:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVMPSzxYelik
This @parkermolloy.com interview with @juddlegum.bsky.social is solid gold. What he's built at @popular.info is incredible. That he's doing it without a paywall is really a tremendous service to news consumers. Here's why he made that choice:
20.06.2025 01:33 β π 98 π 21 π¬ 4 π 0When college professor Steve Ross began teaching psychology 16 years ago, he never imagined heβd one day be drawing on his love of late-night television in the classroom. But it turns out that playing a late-night host has become one of his best tools for getting through to students.
19.06.2025 09:47 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0A little snippet from one of my reflections in our first editorial. Watch the fragment by @willdigravio.bsky.social at fragments.video
04.06.2025 20:09 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"I experienced this rough cut as an archive of Willβs 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...
03.06.2025 09:00 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1In this weekβs late night TV recap, John Mulaney looks up at the lights after getting whupped by three 14-year-old boys, while John Oliver and Nathan Fielder look to the skies to fix our aviation nightmares. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...
02.06.2025 19:53 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Our Summer 2025 issue is here! On the cover: Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in John Ford's THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940).
The issue includes a review of the new found footage epic, HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT, and an interview with its director, Alexander Horwath.
More at our website: www.cineaste.com
We are delighted to launch βFragmentsβ, 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
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