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In the Mix: The Collaborative Video Essay in Theory and Praxis

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The video essay has become an important part of the scholarly toolkit. The focus of the scholarly video essay has been primarily driven toward auteurial topics, which is often mirrored by single authorship or a singular perspective. In this workshop, we want to disrupt this approach by modeling a pathway into collaborative video work. Collectively, we will take an agnostic approach to the variety of possible forms of the video essay, and see if new forms may materialize as we work together.  We propose a project that begins several months prior to the SCMS conference: using the prompt “Post-Truth,” each of the workshop participants will add ten files (image, audio, video, text) that we will each draw from to create video essays of 90 seconds each. We will then share these essays on the Scalar platform so that our group can comment, annotate, and consider the next round of edits.  For the second round of edits, each workshop participant will edit another’s video essay. These second essays will be shared on our Scalar site, along with the original files, and SCMS colleagues will be invited to comment, annotate, re-edit, and post.

At the SCMS workshop, we extend the dialogic process further through a session that includes a discussion of the basic process, sample viewings, editorial reflections, and attendee feedback.  We also will share our materials with attendees and set aside time for a DIY remix session. Using files we provide in the session, attendees can edit into a new video (using online freeware or their own software) or prepare a storyboard.  We will post the results of our workshop on Scalar for further commentary, annotation, and new edits. Our goal with this workshop is to find new ways of thinking about the video essay as well as reimagining scholarly dialogue.

We will each be making 90 second - 5 minutes videos
We don't have a limit on the time per clip, and each person should post 10 clips from which they will make their video
Here's our timeline for our workVicki Callahan, University of Southern California

Vicki Callahan is Associate Professor at University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts in MA+P.  With Virginia Kuhn she co-edited, Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies (2016) and a special issue (#11) of The Cine-Files: “The Video Essay: An Emergent Taxonomy of Cinematic Writing,”(2017).  She published “Introduction to The Video Essay” (co-author Virginia Kuhn) and “Introduction to MEmorial with her video essay, The Just War,” The Ciné-Files, #11 (2017).
Co-Chair

Daniel Clarkson Fisher, Ryerson University




Daniel Clarkson Fisher is a student in the MFA Documentary Media program at Ryerson University. His video essays have been featured by The AV Club, io9, Films for Action, Boing Boing, Filmscalpel, Vimeo Staff Picks, and others. In addition, he has written for outlets that include AlterNet, Bright Lights Film Journal, Nonfics, Diabolique, and Culture Matters. He was formerly a professor of applied Buddhist theology, and has co-edited one book and contributed chapters to three others.



Nicole Richter , Wright State University

Nicole Richter is Coordinator/Associate Professor at the Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures at Wright State University. She is the author of The Moving Image (Cognella, 2017). Her research focuses on sexuality/gender in popular culture. She has published in the Journal of Bisexuality, Reverse Shot, Gender Forum, Feminism at the Movies, and Queer Love in Film and Television. She founded the KinoFemme and KinoQueer filmmaking collectives and serves on the editorial board for Short Film Studies.
Participant

J. D. Bradley, Harold Washington College

J.D. Bradley teaches media studies and interdisciplinary humanities. She is a professional photographer, and her research interests include Afrotuturism and black diasporic media, film narration, and the spatial uses of sound and music. She has published in Cinema Journal and is writing a chapter on the film adaptation of Fences, the “ugly cry” and black women’s spectatorship for the an edited collection on August Wilson.

Participant

Christina Lane, University of Miami

Christina Lane is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami. Recent publications include the video essay “Carole Lombard and What Remains” (The Cine-Files: The Videographic Essay, 2016), “A Modern Marriage for the Masses: Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, and the Cultural Front” (Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2016), and a forthcoming article on the feminist and racial politics of an early Florida film in Feminist Media Histories.




Liz Cambron, Wright State University

Liz Cambron is a visiting professor of film and video at Wright State University. Her work has shown at Slamdance, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and various galleries. Her work incorporates fiction and non-fictional elements; she is interested in transformations, portals, and radical politics.

Bibliography

Becker, Christine, ed. “In Focus: Videographic Criticism.” Cinema Journal 56, No. 4 (2017).
Callahan, Vicki and Virginia Kuhn, “Introduction to The Video Essay: an Emergent Taxonomy of Cinematic Writing.” Special issue on video essay (co-editors), The Ciné-Files #11 (January 2017).

http://issue011.thecine-files.com
Grant, Catherine. “How Long is a Piece of String: On the Practice, Scope and Value of Videographic Film Studies and Criticism.”  The Audio-Visual Essay  (November 2013). http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/frankfurt-papers/catherine-grant/
Keathley, Christian, and Jason Mittell. The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image. 1st edition. Montreal: caboose, 2016.

Lopez, Cristina Alvarez and Adrian Martin: “The One and the Many: Making Sense of Montage in the Audiovisual Essay.” Reframe ( September  2014). http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/frankfurt-papers/cristina-alvarez-lopez-adrian-martin/


 

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  1. Resources
  2. SCALAR GUIDE