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Cormac Donnelly

@cormacrestrike

Senior Lecturer in Film LJMU | researching film sound & production Making video essays & exploring creative practice Founding editor @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social Associate Editor @intransition.bsky.social

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The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself Featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/issue/view/1380 Screening…

I finished this video essay in June 2025 and included a flash frame of the Doomsday clock showing 89 seconds to midnight. And now it's out of date...
vimeo.com/1074720429

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Péter Lichter and Bori Máté's fragment shows "just how much the definition of a fragment can be stretched". Read their extended exploration of the making of the film and watch it as part of our 2nd collection of fragments. Find our more here fragments.video/2025/07/28/t...

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"It’s a subtle (and welcome) reminder of how seemingly insignificant details can, when collated, lead to new ideas or prove worthy of greater aesthetic appreciation." Andrea Comiskey's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/p...

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"is it a humorous piece? Disturbing? What is the broader context from which this fragment comes? Will it feature in the final essay film or, like the damp loaf, is it now to be discarded?" @bolddecade.bsky.social's fragment in our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/s...

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"In Joel’s piece (and his description) I enjoy the idea of returning to a ‘safe’ videographic space, in this case the supercut, though one which is less ‘cut’ and more ‘blend’." Joel Blackledge's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/07/03/t...

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Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film An examination of media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film, with 14 video essays <br><i>Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/videographicbooks/">Videographic Books</a> series</...

So very excited to announce that as of today the number of Videographic Books in the world has doubled! Check out ADAPTIVE FORMS, Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley's fabulous new open-access book on contemporary science-fiction - complete with video essays on ARRIVAL, SNOWPIERCER, BLACK PANTHER, etc.!!!

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'The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself' has made the official selection for the Adelio Ferrero Video Essay prize. Exciting stuff vimeo.com/1074720429

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"There is something in its constructed-ness that seems to demand a normative reading of the video, i.e., what it is saying about this character—the wrestler—and how he is treated by the film and by himself." @arielavissar.bsky.social's fragment in our 2nd collection. fragments.video/2025/06/19/t...

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"The physical recreation of a footage bin...from magazine clippings combines with the carefully arranged Cheezit timeline and other elements to be entirely familiar as an editing space" Benedetta Andreasi's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more fragments.video/2025/06/25/c...

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Our 2nd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 9 fragments (from eight creators) ranging from 35 seconds to an hour. fragments.video

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The Video Essay About The Show For the past year, I’ve been working on a long-form project that I’m finally ready to share publicly. In Fall 2024, I taught a new course entitled Faking Reality: Mockumentaries, Hoaxes…

I've been working on this project for a long time and am excited to finally share "The Video Essay About The Show" publicly! It's a multipart video essay about "The Show About The Show," the cult webseries - check it out:

22.07.2025 23:49 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

A wonderful new research/writing/thinking tool for moving image work. Bravo

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The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself Featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/issue/view/1380 Screening…

My new video essay featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia, the journal of the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network.
vimeo.com/1074720429
You can find the journal at the link below
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/...

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"I was genuinely excited by the idea of ‘seeing through sound’...with an immediate feeling of ‘I want to try that!’." @cormacrestrike.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/03/04/b...

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Hello old friend. On television now in the UK. And all the grain is gone? Or is this me remembering it differently?

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We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

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Debunking HDR by Steve Yedlin

Fellow film tech nerds, today I'm launching a brand new demo debunking some common misconceptions about so-called "HDR" colorspace. Up now on my website.
#NerdyFilmTechStuff
www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR

02.05.2025 12:53 👍 71 🔁 19 💬 5 📌 6
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The Video Essay Podcast returns!

@jmittell.bsky.social joins to discuss his new videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad, the first in a series he edits for Lever Press.

Listen here:

thevideoessay.com/jason-mittel...

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Screenshot of the journal's homepage featuring the cover picture of the latest issue, the journal's logo and description

Screenshot of the journal's homepage featuring the cover picture of the latest issue, the journal's logo and description

New issue of @intransition.bsky.social is here! Issue 11.4 features 10 peer-reviewed video essays on queer spectatorship, vampires, pop music in fanvids, female subjectivity in socialist cinema, unfulfilled love stories, and more. Check them out: intransition.openlib...

04.01.2025 11:11 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Can't possibly skip Christmas dinner so I better get watching! 😉

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