Babelsberg

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”

Image from Out of Place (Or, Lost in Nomadland) by Catherine Grant, 2021

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/)

https://vimeo.com/28201216

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