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Interviews with leading critics, filmmakers, scholars and other creators about the craft of videographic criticism. Hosted by Will DiGravio. Learn more at www.thevideoessay.com

The Video Essay Podcast The Video Essay Podcast

    • TV & Film
    • 4.9 • 13 Ratings

Interviews with leading critics, filmmakers, scholars and other creators about the craft of videographic criticism. Hosted by Will DiGravio. Learn more at www.thevideoessay.com

    On Weirdness and Memory: Viewing Tips with Evelyn Kreutzer & Kevin B. Lee

    On Weirdness and Memory: Viewing Tips with Evelyn Kreutzer & Kevin B. Lee

    Today's episode is the second in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation


    In this conversation, Kevin talks with Evelyn about her picks for the 2023 survey of the year's best video essays by Sight & Sound magazine. Evelyn's selections serve as an entry point for the two to discuss the broader themes of their research project.

    Follow the show on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠. Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠website⁠⁠. Get the ⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠.

    Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Editing by Kevin B. Lee and Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠⁠Music by Ketsa.

    • 38 min
    Episode 42. Kleber Mendonça Filho on 'Pictures of Ghosts'

    Episode 42. Kleber Mendonça Filho on 'Pictures of Ghosts'

    On today's episode, Will talks with filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho about his new film, Pictures of Ghosts. Set in the director's home city of Recife, in the Pernambuco state of Brazil, the film is a self-described "multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking." Kleber talks about the film's origins, the art of voiceover narration, treating his own films as archival images, and the unique ways that cinema is able to tell stories of ghosts. Learn more about the film and when it might be screening near you, here.


    Support the podcast on ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠. Follow the show on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠. Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠website⁠⁠. Get the ⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠. Subscribe on ⁠YouTube⁠.

    Will DiGravio hosted, edited and produced this episode. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠⁠Music by Ketsa⁠⁠: "Live It," "Anvil," and "Refraining."

    • 30 min
    Curating Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of 2023

    Curating Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of 2023

    Today's episode centers on Sight & Sound magazine's new list, "The Best Video Essays of 2023." In a conversation moderated by Kevin B. Lee, the curators of this year's list, Irina Trocan, Queline Meadows, and Will Webb, discuss the results of the poll, their curatorial strategies, and offer general thoughts on the video essay landscape in 2023.

    This episode is the first in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and Kevin B. Lee, who, in his role as the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, is leading a three-year research project on video essays with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Read Kevin's columns for Sight & Sound here.

    Support the podcast on ⁠Patreon⁠. Follow the show on ⁠Twitter⁠. Learn more at the pod's ⁠website⁠. Get the ⁠free newsletter⁠.

    Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Editing by Kevin B. Lee and Will DiGravio. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠Music by Ketsa⁠: "Live It," "Anvil," and "Refraining."

    • 41 min
    Episode 41. Feminist Videographic Diptychs with Catherine Fowler

    Episode 41. Feminist Videographic Diptychs with Catherine Fowler

    On today's episode, Will is joined by Catherine Fowler, a film scholar based at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Catherine curated the most recent special issue of the journal, [in]Transition, which features feminist videographic diptychs by six scholars: Nicole Morse, Maryam Tafakory, Melissa Dollman, Paola Voci, Maud Ceuterick, and Catherine herself. Watch and read more about the special issue here.

    Support the podcast on ⁠Patreon⁠. Follow the show on ⁠Twitter⁠. Learn more at the pod's ⁠website⁠. Get the ⁠free newsletter⁠. Subscribe on YouTube.

    Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. ⁠Music by Ketsa⁠: "Live It," "Anvil," and "Refraining."

    • 1 hr 24 min
    Episode 40. Evelyn Kreutzer on Videographic Vulnerability

    Episode 40. Evelyn Kreutzer on Videographic Vulnerability

    On today's episode, Evelyn Kreutzer, a Berlin-based scholar, curator, and video essayist, joins to discuss her videographic origin story, collaborative projects (including Once Upon a Screen and Moving Poems), videographic vulnerability, the new Videography section of the journal zfm, and more.

    We also discuss Evelyn's video essay, "Footsteps," and a moving poem by Desirée de Jesús that pairs A Raisin in the Sun (1961) with Langston Hughes's 1951 poem "Harlem."

    Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter.

    Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer. Music by Ketsa: "Live It," "Anvil," and "Refraining."

    • 1 hr 37 min
    Episode 39. Alan O'Leary on Parametric Criticism & the Videographic Society

    Episode 39. Alan O'Leary on Parametric Criticism & the Videographic Society

    Today's episode features a conversation with Alan O'Leary, a scholar and artist based at Aarhus University. On today's episode, we discuss Alan's origin story, the videographic "society," academic labor and mode, organizing videographic events, and more. We also discuss Alan's video, "Nebular Epistemics: A Glossary (Scholarship Like a Spider or Spit)," and Kathleen Loock's "Reproductive Futurism and the Politics of the Sequel." 

    Support the podcast on Patreon. Follow the show on Twitter. Learn more at the pod's website. Get the free newsletter.

    Will DiGravio hosted and produced this episode. Emily Su Bin Ko is the show's associate producer, and also co-hosted and edited this episode. Music by Ketsa: "Live It," "Anvil," and "Refraining."

    • 1 hr 12 min

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