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Coping with a pandemic: Television series and COVID-19

December 9, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2024_#Enough

by Ariane Hudelet From March 2020 to 2022, the global population endured months of lockdowns, social distancing, and sanitary measures, which restricted public gatherings and movement. One of the striking and intriguing effects was the specific sense of attachment, comfort, and knowledge that television series provided to their audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although all […]

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Utopia

December 9, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2024_#Enough

by Mathias de Bondt   This audiovisual essay examines a conspiratorial reading of the cult television series Utopia (Channel 4, 2013-2014). During the COVID-19 pandemic, I rewatched Utopia while conducting ethnographic research on conspiracy-oriented Reddit communities, where I observed intense engagement with this series. Users interpreted its plot – featuring a bioweapon engineered to sterilise […]

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On Being With Normal People

December 9, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2024_#Enough

by Catherine Fowler At a time when, for many, lockdown meant isolation from others, the absence of actual intimacy made depictions of it onscreen achingly poignant and even painful. That is one way to explain the streaming surge that accompanied the ten-part BBC/Hulu series Normal People in April 2020, when it was reportedly downloaded 16.2 […]

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Atemporalities and Becomings in the Age of Covid

December 9, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2024_#Enough

by Barbara Zecchi ‘Atemporalities and Becomings in the Age of Covid’ juxtaposes two distinct visual experiences: clips from the Spanish television series Estoy Vivo, a tragicomedy I watched during the evenings of the COVID-19 lockdown as a way to relax and disconnect from the horror of the outside; and news on the pandemic, which I […]

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The Look For Sit Down

June 26, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2024_#Open

by Nicolas Bailleul As a mostly stationary filmmaker, I was inclined to believe that documentaries filmed in offices and in bedrooms would erase the physical presence of the auteur. While viewing desktop documentaries I asked myself if the physical traces on screen of the stationary documentary filmmaker, such as the uncontrollable camera shaking that might […]

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Meeting/Eating Meat Joy: Productive (mis)understandings in feminist performance art legacy and self-authorising critique through the video essay 

June 26, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2024_#Open

by Chloé Lavalette  My research trip to New York at the beginning of 2017 closely followed the brutal and unexpected death of my 63-year-old father Christian Lavalette. He was a recently-retired man, a graphic designer, a painter, engraver and editor, and died in three days from a septicemia while he was himself on a trip […]

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Twisties!

June 26, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2024_#Open

by Alice Lenay and Théophile Gay-Mazas In this visual and performative setup, my body is embedded in a video of the Olympic Games. We focus on a specific sequence from the 1996 Olympics, when the gymnast Kerri Strug injured her ankle but continued the competition to win the gold medal for her team. By being […]

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xena’s body

June 26, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2024_#Open

 xena’s body by Occitane Lacurie https://vimeo.com/879454111 How close is my phone to my body? How far does the entanglement of knowledges and power that dwells on my screen under my fingertips take the data I feed it? First, I thought my iPhone was the technologically-enhanced version of the little hand mirror one uses to […]

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CORPS CANAPÉ

June 26, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2024_#Open

by morgane frund Link to the audiovisual essay I don’t really like to think about my body, let alone be creative with it. I hardly ever dance or perform ‘physically’. I tend to rely a lot more on words and voice to express myself. Because of that, I decided to approach the theme from a […]

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Sitting, standing, dancing with our screens: An introduction

June 25, 2024/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2024_#Open

by Chloé Galibert-Laîné Although it has received different names over time, from ‘interface film’ to ‘screen-life movie’, a consensus seems to have emerged among practitioners and researchers as to what defines a desktop film: it is the product of a filmmaking method that ‘uses screen capture technology to treat the computer interface (its screen space, […]

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Split Screen as Hermeneutic Tool: Recursivity and Crosstalk in ‘Better Call Saul’

December 11, 2023/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2023_#Cycles

by Nicolás Medina Marañón and Miklós Kiss Our video departs from an interest in the use of the split screen in Vince Gilligan and Peter Goud’s television series Better Call Saul. More specifically, we are interested in the use of the split screen as both a technique featured in the show as well as a […]

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The Time-Loop as Game Mechanic, Narrative Device and Cycle of Systemic Racism

December 11, 2023/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2023_#Cycles

by Daniel O’Brien by Daniel O’Brien This twenty-six-minute video essay explores ideas of the time-loop on screen. It examines a range of films to argue that the concept of the time-loop can be found within the mechanics of the computer game, particularly in the aspect of failure and repetition (considered through ludologist Jesper Juul’s 2013 […]

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