The epigraphic video essay as an epistemological instrument
Links and resources pertaining to the presentation by Catherine Grant for the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF public lecture and discussion series of the project “Creating Knowledge. Videographic-essayistic research as an epistemological instrument”


Presentation : The Epigraphic Video Essay as an Epistemological Instrument
Videos – mentioned or screened
Un/Contained: A Video Essay on Fish Tank, published in ‘Beyond tautology? AudiovisualFilm Criticism’, Film Criticism, Vol. 40, No.1, 2016. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.13761232.0040.113
Facing Film by Johannes Binotto (2017): https://vimeo.com/231289717
Wollen Epigraph by Christian Keathley: https://vimeo.com/223329882
Bush Mama Epigraph by Neepa Majumdar: https://vimeo.com/280991124
American Dreams (Lost and Found) by James Benning (1984) – at Holly Willis’s Scalar project Writing Images: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/writing-images/graphic-writing?path=index
50 years on by Christian Keathley (2011): https://vimeo.com/25027483
Curated by Catherine Grant, “The Audiovisual Essay: My Favorite Things”, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies – a Cinema Journal/MediaCommons Collaboration, 1.3. September 2014 on The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory. Online at: http://mediacommons.org/intransition/2014/08/26/how-long-piece-string
Video Epigraph exercise at ‘Scholarship in Sound & Image: A Pedagogical Essay’ by Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell: http://videographicessay.org/works/videographic-essay/scholarship-in-sound–image
Video Essay Podcast Epigraph exercise: https://thevideoessay.com/leighsinger and https://thevideoessay.com/exercises
Memories of Heidi by Catherine Grant (2014) : https://vimeo.com/86428511
Touching the Film Object by Catherine Grant (2011): https://vimeo.com/28201216 (with audio commentary: https://vimeo.com/44566069; and transcription: http://framescinemajournal.com/article/bonus-tracks/2/)
Catherine Grant, ‘The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea? Videographic Film Studies Practice as Material Thinking’, ANIKI: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, 1.1, 2014, Online at: http://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/59/html
(Also on material thinking: Catherine Grant, ‘Dissolves of Passion: Materially Thinking through Editing in Videographic Compilation’ in The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy edited by Christian Keathley, Jason Mittell and Catherine Grant, including all the quoted videos: http://videographicessay.org/works/videographic-essay/dissolves-of-passion-1)
Carnal Locomotive by Catherine Grant (2015): https://vimeo.com/119051190 (and ‘making of’ article: https://necsus-ejms.org/film-studies-in-the-groove-rhythmising-perception-in-carnal-locomotive/)
Jessica McGoff on Carnal Locomotive in “Expresser, Agitator, Salve and Mirror: the Video Essay and Contemporary Cinephilia”, MA Thesis, UvA, 2017. Online at : https://scripties.uba.uva.nl/scriptie/632589
Lesley Stern, ““Once I’ve Devoured Your Soul We Are Neither Animal Nor Human”: The Cinema as an Animist Universe,” The Cine-Files, 10, 2016. Online at: http://www.thecine-files.com/once-ive-devoured-your-soul/http://www.thecine-files.com/once-ive-devoured-your-soul/
Out of Place (Or, Lost in Nomadland) by Catherine Grant, 2021
VEDTTE – For Laura Mulvey by Catherine Grant, 2021