1. FATED TO BE MATED: An Architectural Promenade from Catherine Grant on Vimeo. As discussed in "Screen studies as device?: Working through the video essay" and at Filmanalytical
Sawing Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in half.
A queer experiment in cinephilic re-spatialisation
Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays from Film Studies For Free! Let's celebrate with a new video essay (above) and nine sets of treats (below) representing some of FSFF's favourite online film and moving image studies items from 2018.
2. MEDIÁTICO - Special Dossier on Alfonso Cuarón's Roma (2018) by nine world-leading scholars on Latin American Cinema
- INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL DOSSIER ON ROMA (ALFONSO CUARON) by Dolores Tierney
- WATCHING ROMA IN MEXICO CITY by Paul Julian Smith
- BROKEN MEMORY, VOICE AND VISUAL STORYTELLING by Pedro Ángel Palou
- ALFONSO CUARÓN’S LOVE LETTER TO HIS NANA by Deborah Shaw
- CLASS TROUBLE by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
- MEMORIES OF C/LEO – ON AUTEURISM AND ROMA by Jeffrey Middents
- FEMINISM AND INTIMATE/EMOTIONAL LABOR by Olivia Consentino
- THE PARADOXES OF CINEPHILIA IN THE AGE OF NETFLIX by Belén Vidal
- RECUERDA, NOTES ON ALFONSO CUARÓN’S ROMA by Robert Carlos Ortiz
3. Twenty of FSFF's favourite video essays from 2018
Cotton - The Fabric of Genocide from Cydnii Harris on Vimeo.
What's Walt Thinking? Mind Reading & Serialized Memory in Breaking Bad from Jason Mittell on Vimeo.
Dorothy, Isabella, Dorothy from Liz Greene on Vimeo.
The Signature Effect - trailer from Christian Keathley on Vimeo.
What's Walt Thinking? Mind Reading & Serialized Memory in Breaking Bad from Jason Mittell on Vimeo.
Dorothy, Isabella, Dorothy from Liz Greene on Vimeo.
The Signature Effect - trailer from Christian Keathley on Vimeo.
The Thinking Machine 24: When You Read This Letter by Cristina Alvarez López and Adrian Martin from De Filmkrant
Cinders of La Invasión: Reenactment as Index in Abner Benaim's Invasión from Nike Nivar Ortiz on Vimeo.
Remixing Rose Hobart from Derek Long on Vimeo.
America is (not) Cool from Jenny OK on Vimeo.
Sound in Hanna-Barbera from Patrick Sullivan on Vimeo.
Some People Like Hearing Sad Things: A Meditation on "Transparent" from Nicole Morse on Vimeo.
Cruising Différance in 3 Scenes from Marc Francis on Vimeo.
#65 - Childhood by Hirokazu Kore-eda // Enfants rois from TROISCOULEURS on Vimeo.
4. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. Autumn 2018 Issue on Mapping
- Early cinema, Sergei Eisenstein, and film culture today: An interview with Ian Christie on new directions in film history by Annie van den Oever and Malte Hagener
- The playfulness of Ingmar Bergman: Screenwriting from notebooks to screenplays by Anna Sofia Rossholm
- Handmade films and artist-run labs: The chemical sites of film’s counterculture by Rossella Catanese and Jussi Parikka
Special section: #Mappingedited by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta
- Border crossings: Serial figures and the evolution of media by Shane Denson and Ruth Mayer
- The exact shape of the world: Mapping and the media by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta
- The mapping of ‘500 Days of Summer’: A processual approach to cinematic cartography by Chris Lukinbeal
- Earth networks: ‘The Human Surge’ and cognitive mapping by Tiago de Luca
- Embodied cartographies of the unscene: A feminist approach to (geo)visualising film and television production by Laura Sharp
- Making the map speak: Indigenous animated cartographies as contrapuntal spatial representations by Lola Remy
- Plus ultra: Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip II by Adam Wickberg
Festival reviews:edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist
- Media mapping and oil extraction: A Louisiana story by Janet Walker
- A brief study of film festivals in Mexico: Consumption and historical evolution 2010-2016 by Jacob Bañuelos and Juan Olmedo
- The Dutch film festival landscape: A walk-through by Harry van Vliet
Exhibition reviews:edited by Miriam de Rosa and Leo Goldsmith
- Evidentiary aesthetics: Landscapes of violence at RIDM 2017 by Patrick Smith
- Codes of conflux: Collaborations between human and computer in MoMa’s ‘Thinking Machines’ by Leo Goldsmith
Book reviews:edited by Lavinia Brydon and Victoria Pastor-González
- Nothing stable under heaven at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Justin Ross Muchnick
- (Re)imagining African independence by Vicente Sanchez-Biosca
Audiovisual essays:edited by Miklós Kiss
- Form and feeling: Kinaesthetic Knowing / Artificial Darkness by Seth Barry Watter
- Videographic scene analyses, part 2 by Miklós Kiss
- Witnessing the western by Luís Azevedo
- Marxism in ‘Metropolis’ by Greta Calaciura and Shant Bayramian
- The l/song take in ‘Before Sunrise’ by Ian Garwood
- Agent of chaos: Discontinuous editing in ‘The Dark Knight’ by Drew Morton
5. Erika Balsom's brilliant essay on Jean-Lun Godard's latest film Le livre d'image The Image Book
6. Latest round up of profiles at the amazing Women's Film Pioneers Project
- Travelogue filmmaker and anthropologist Kathleen Romoli(Colombia) by Isabel Arredondo
- Director, producer, and screenwriter Louise Kolm-Fleck(Austria, Germany, China) by Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl
- Director, actress, producer, and screenwriter Francesca Bertini (Italy) by Monica Dall’Asta
- Chief accountant, office manager, and production secretary Aili Kari (Finland) by Hannu Salmi
- Producer, screenwriter, and editor Virgínia de Castro e Almeida (Portugal, France) by Tiago Baptista
- Director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and camerawoman Angela Murray Gibson (United States) by Charles “Buckey” Grimm
- Set designers and location scouts Frances Baker Farrell and Lettice Ramsey & actress/editor Máirín Hayes (Ireland) by Donna Casella
- Publicist, trade journal editor and writer, and business owner Mabel Condon (United States) by Carolyn Jacobs
- Director, actress, and film company founder Cleo de Verberena (Brazil) by Marcella Grecco de Araujo
7. The fabulous research project and resource Timeline of Historical Film Colors is now on Instagram as @timeline_filmcolors!
10. "Breaking your reservation: the rise of indigenous cinema" by So Mayer
