Barbara Zecchi
@barbarazecchi.bsky.social
Film Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts. Cat lady with dogs. Videoessayist trained at Middlebury College. Author of books on women filmmakers. Co-editor of [in]Transition. Member of the Film Academy of Spain. From Venice.
Quick reminder about the UMass Amherst Online Graduate Certificate in Videographic Criticism. You can take one course, or complete the 4-course certificate. Offered asynchronously. Great for colleagues interested in bringing new methods into their teaching and research: www.umass.edu/film/academi...
Only 20 spots available. Open to graduate students and faculty at any rank. Deadline March 31 VIDEOGRAPHIC VENICE WORKSHOP July 31 - Aug 6. Step into Venice, one of the world’s most fragile landscapes as a videoessayist, and learn to navigate through delicate terrains: www.univiu.org/study/summer...
Videographic Venice | The Video Essay at the Intersection of Place and Practice - Venice International University
Venice International University
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Cut to Sound #3: "Magnetic Pulses" A collaborative video, with images and words by @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, @cormacrestrike.bsky.social, Merel Marjieh, @middento.bsky.social, @jemsaunders1.bsky.social, Adi Beck, Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan, and @colleenlaird.bsky.social: vimeo.com/1077486007
Magnetic Pulses (Cut to Sound, Group 3)
Made as part of a collaborative videographic experiment I organized in 2024-2025. Participants: Barbara Zecchi, Cormac Donnelly, Merel Marjieh, Jeff Romero Middents,…
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Please share with graduate students who could be interested: sites.google.com/view/reframi.... Thanks to generous supporting funds, the workshop "Reframing the Argument" is offered FREE of tuition, room and board. Participants will be provided with a travel stipend! Deadline to apply is April 15.
Reframing the Argument
Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice June 9-15, 2025
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Y'all this is REALLY BAD. They disappeared a Palestinian activist green card holder who is married to a US citizen. He could literally be ANYWHERE 🌍 right now! ICE claims they cancelled his green card, something no judge has ruled on yet. Columbia colluded w/ ICE to make this happen.
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media
CALL for Video essays: Screen Stars Dictionary / Tecmerin– “Stardom and Aging: Dust or Stardust?” If you are interested in submitting a proposal, email your idea to Barbara Zecchi (bzecchi@umass.edu), Ariel Avissar (arielavissar24@gmail.com) and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega (vrortega@hum.uc3m.es)
CALL for Video essays: Screen Stars Dictionary / Tecmerin– “Stardom and Aging: Dust or Stardust?” If you are interested in submitting a proposal, email your idea to Barbara Zecchi (bzecchi@umass.edu), Ariel Avissar (arielavissar24@gmail.com) and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega (vrortega@hum.uc3m.es)
🎉 So incredibly happy and honored! my video essay "The Rhythms of Rage" is the top vote-getter in this year's Sight and Sound polls for best video essay🏆💥Thank you to everyone who watched, supported, and wrote so generously about this piece!🎥 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The best video essays of 2024
From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.
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Happy to see my new video essay “Atemporalities and becomings in the age of Covid” just published in NECSUS, for @arianehudelet.bsky.social’s Coronaseries. The series gathers video essays on the creator’s personal connection to a specific tv show watched during the pandemic: vimeo.com/1017209015
Atemporalities and Becomings in the Age of Covid
Published in the NECSUS (dec. 2024) special issue #Enough, in the coronaseries section curated by Ariane Hudelet: https://necsus-ejms.org/atemporalities-and-becomings-in-the-age-of-covid/
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Thrilled to be participating at the #SCMS25 in Chicago at the roundtable "The video essay in pain: Confronting ethics in videographic criticism" that Alan O'Leary and I co-organized with amazing speakers: @colleenlaird.bsky.social, @jaapkooijman.bsky.social, Susan Harewood, May Santiago. #SCMS2025
Guess I'm going to SCMS for the first time in my life. (Thanks to @barbarazecchi.bsky.social). Great panel on confronting ethics in videographic criticism.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies@scmstudies.bsky.social · 2y agoAcceptance notices are out & registration is now open! You can now book at our conference hotels, apply for eligible grants & subsidies, review travel guidance, reserve reception spaces, and more! Visit cmstudies.org for more information about #SCMS25 in Chicago, IL from April 3-6, 2025.
If you want to contribute to the newest volume of the Screen Stars Dictionary, then here's your chance. Previous entries in this series of video essays can be found on the website of the Journal of Audiovisual Essays TECMERIN (see tinyurl.com/2f74a8ej).
Screen Stars Dictionary | Grupo de Investigación Televisión-cine: memoria, representación en industria
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Barbara Zecchi@barbarazecchi.bsky.social · 2y agoWe 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
Excited to share that Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice, which Susan Schreibman & I coedited, has a publication date and will be available fully OA on 4/8/2025!! @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....
Feminist Digital Humanities
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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.
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.…
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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
Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!
Scholarship in Sound & Image
Workshop on Videographic Criticism
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