Our 5th Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live featuring 7 new fragments. Read our editorial and view them all here fragments.video

Absolutely chuffed to win the BAFTSS videographic criticism award for my video essay 'The Anthropocene will eat itself'. Such a blast to be at my first in person BAFTSS conference in somewhat sunny Bournemouth criticalcommons.org/view?m=pA9FR...

'Video Essay alert' A new issue of [in]Transition to enjoy. Find it here intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1729/i...

Fragments is heading to the BAFTSS conference in April and we'd like to invite you to take part in our 'Playful Parameters' videographic interlude. Find the instructions to our short (and hopefully) fun videographic exercise at the link below. 9th April deadline fragments.video/reels-a-play...

Our 4th Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. This themed collection comes courtesy of Alan O'Leary, comprising outtakes from his videographic project 'Men Shouting: A History in 7 Episodes' and featuring a response letter by Will Knowles. Find it all here fragments.video

"A multipart video essay both examining and imitating The Show About The Show". From Jason Mittell, now published in Open Screens www.openscreensjournal.com/article/id/2...

The Video Essay About The Show

A multipart video essay both examining and imitating The Show About The Show, a long-running cult webseries created by independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi.

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We now have a letters page (who doesn't love getting a letter). Our first letter comes courtesy of Qinran (Leo) Wang, a PhD candidate studying at the University of Birmingham. Thank you Leo for your letter, and we hope you all enjoy reading it as much as we did. fragments.video/letters/

Screenworks 16.2 - "Laird's Constraint": Videographic Montage Analysis Special Issue, entry #3 of 6 In "Dance With Me", @newsfromnihon.bsky.social breaks down a shopping montage from "Mannequin" and places it in playful conversation with "42nd Street": www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...

"The presence of the filmmaker here is felt deeply through the use of a handheld camera (in this case a Tyco kids video camera)." John Bradburn's fragment published as part of our 3rd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/11/13/d...

The online exhibition Metric Imagination, curated by @veronikahanakova.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social, is now live on Artyčok.TV "featuring five video essays that reflect on, and hint at ways of overcoming, our society’s obsession with metrics and quantification." artycok.tv/en/post/inte...

Interfaces 01: Metric Imagination | Artyčok TV

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Now accepting applications! Join me, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, @jbinotto.bsky.social, @arielavissar.bsky.social, Alan O'Leary, and Danielle Hipkins for a intensive videographic exploration of Venice this summer. Deadline: Mar 31. See details here: www.univiu.org/study/summer...

"At once commenting, reflecting, reinforcing, and completing each other, propelled along by a perfectly chosen accompaniment" Joel Blackledge's fragment published as part of our 3rd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/08/27/t...

Great new episode of The Video Essay Podcast from @willdigravio.bsky.social featuring @jirianger.bsky.social thevideoessay.com/jiri-anger-o...

The Video Essay Podcast - Jiří Anger on 'Towards a Film Theory From Below'

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A brilliant new videographic initiative!

Colleen Laird@colleenlaird.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Call for Applications! Ways of Undoing invites videographic makers, scholars, and artists to apply to one of three intensive, week-long residential workshops (St Andrews 2026 | Vancouver 2027 | Tokyo 2028). Funded accommodation & board provided. Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 waysofdoing.com/ways-of-undo...

Now in its ninth year, our annual poll, organised by by Jiří Anger, Veronika Hanáková, Kevin B. Lee and Occitane Lacurie, showcases a record 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The best video essays of 2025

Now in its ninth year, our annual poll showcases 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters.

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Sight & Sound Magazines Best Video essay poll is out for 2025. So much to watch and enjoy (and a small shout out for Fragments as well 😀) www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The best video essays of 2025

Now in its ninth year, our annual poll showcases 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters.

bfi.org.uk

"Sarah uses the adjective ‘uncanny’ at the end of her description, and her subtle deployment of ‘the sound of hand cream’ is instrumental in creating this feeling." @horror-scholar.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our 3rd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/08/27/e...

Our 3rd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 12 fragments (from nine creators). Read our editorial and view them all here fragments.video

Barbara Zecchi’s latest brilliant videographic thinkpiece, just published in 16:9 as part of Ariel Avissar and Colleen Laird’s collective series in response to the New York Times’ list of 100 best films of the 21st century. vimeo.com/1141239458?f... 16-9.dk/2025/11/the-...

The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century: "All About Numbers: 100 Films – 11 Women"

This is "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century: "All About Numbers: 100 Films – 11 Women"" by 16:9 Film Journal on Vimeo, the home for…

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Volume 16.1 of Screenworks is out. New peer reviewed creative practice from Cassandra Tytler, David H. Fleming, Miguel Mesquita Duarte. t.co/C75H6yhJjm

Péter Lichter and Bori Máté's fragment shows "just how much the definition of a fragment can be stretched". Read their extended exploration of the making of the film and watch it as part of our 2nd collection of fragments. Find our more here fragments.video/2025/07/28/t...

"It’s a subtle (and welcome) reminder of how seemingly insignificant details can, when collated, lead to new ideas or prove worthy of greater aesthetic appreciation." Andrea Comiskey's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/p...

"is it a humorous piece? Disturbing? What is the broader context from which this fragment comes? Will it feature in the final essay film or, like the damp loaf, is it now to be discarded?" @bolddecade.bsky.social's fragment in our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/s...

So very excited to announce that as of today the number of Videographic Books in the world has doubled! Check out ADAPTIVE FORMS, Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley's fabulous new open-access book on contemporary science-fiction - complete with video essays on ARRIVAL, SNOWPIERCER, BLACK PANTHER, etc.!!!

Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film

An examination of media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film, with 14 video essays <br><i>Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/videographicbooks/">Videographic Books</a> series</...

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"In Joel’s piece (and his description) I enjoy the idea of returning to a ‘safe’ videographic space, in this case the supercut, though one which is less ‘cut’ and more ‘blend’." Joel Blackledge's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/07/03/t...

"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...

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

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…

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"The physical recreation of a footage bin...from magazine clippings combines with the carefully arranged Cheezit timeline and other elements to be entirely familiar as an editing space" Benedetta Andreasi's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more fragments.video/2025/06/25/c...

Check out the interactive version of my book -- apps for Mac and Windows (doi.org/10.25740/qj4...) -- or grab a text pack and load it into the film|minutes video|graphic workstation (doi.org/10.25740/xq3...)

Shane Denson@shanedenson.bsky.social · last yr.

Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions! My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a…

“Wondersludge” is a sketch for a scene in my upcoming VR essay film. It’s presented here, in all its DIY glory. I no longer have the butcher knife.

Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method@fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

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