Video Essays
A selection ofVideo essays published in journals including Alphaville, [in]Transition, Movie: a journal of film criticism, Music, Sound and the Moving Image, NECSUS, Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Research in Film and History.
Just published! Maps small town relationships across the standing sets of the Universal Backlot. Read the creator's statement here.
Winner, Audiovisual Essay Selection, Marienbad Film Festival, 2024. Published in Music, Sound and the Moving Image, where you can read a creator's statement. Featured in Sight & Sound's best Video Essays of 2024.
Published in Movie: a journal of film Criticism, 11, 2023. Creator's statement here. Featured in Sight & Sound's best Video Essays of 2023.
A video essay that is also part of a hybrid article ‘The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the Production Code’, by Kathrina Glitre, Douglas Pye and me, published in a special issue of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol. 42, Issue 1, entitled “Hollywood Film Style and the Production Code: Criticism and History”.
The soundtrack to this essay is binaural – use headphones for the best effect. A collaboration with Douglas Pye, published in NECSUS. Featured in Sight & Sound's best Video Essays of 2022.
An experiment in non-linear and non-hierarchical approaches to film history. This essay is published in Movie: a journal of film criticism, where you can read more about it. Featured in Sight & Sound’s Best Video Essays of 2019.
A collaboration with Suzana Reck Miranda, published in [in]Transition, captions in English, Portuguese or Polish.
A collaboration with Douglas Pye, Published in Movie: a journal of film criticism. Featured in Sight & Sound's best Video Essays of 2017.
Chanchadas and Intermediality: On the Musical Numbers of Aviso aos navegantes (Watson Macedo, 1950), a collaboration with Flávia Cesarino Costa, published in Alphaville 19
Opening Movements in Ophuls: Caught (and Madame de...) – published in [in]Transition