The Video Essay Podcast

Scholar Johannes Binotto joins the show to discuss his video essays on John Ford's Stagecoach and François Truffaut. He and Will also discuss Hartmut Bitomsky’s 1991 essay film, Das Kino und der Wind und die Photographie (The Cinema and the Wind and Photography).

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Chloé Galibert-Laîné, one of the leaders in the video essay genre of "desktop documentary" comes on the show to discuss her film, "Watching The Pain of Others." Chloé and Will also discuss Ross Sutherland's 2015 film, "Stand By for Tape Back-Up."

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Jen Proctor is a video essayist, filmmaker, media artist, and professor at the University of Michigan - Dearborn. On this week's show we discuss the difference between those terms, what a video essay is, and a whole lot more. Jen and Will discuss her found footage film, Nothing a Little Soap and Water Can't Fix, and Martin Arnold's 1988 found footage film, Pièce Touchée.

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We are back! Will DiGravio sits down with Adrian Martin, who discusses his video essays made in collaboration with Cristina Álvarez López. The two discuss their essay, "Only Free Gestures," and Rafael Guilhem's "Traspasos." Learn more at thevideoessay.com.

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Jacob Swinney comes on the show to discuss his work at Fandor, his popular Twitter account First & Final Frames, how he built a large following on Vimeo, and what it's like to have Paul Schrader share your work. He and host Will DiGravio also discuss Jake's essay "First and Final Frames," and the video essay "The Art of Overanalyzing Movies" by Now You See It.

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