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Videographic film criticism:
a field growing steadily
over the past decade
in which film scholars
make videos
about films.
Unlike visual anthropology
(another audiovisual field),
videographic film criticism
takes a more playful
and deconstructive attitude
toward its cinematic objects.
This journal:
perhaps it is somewhere in between?
Not quite so playful
as videographic film criticism,
but not quite so earnest
as ethnography.
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As performers and practitioners
who work with our own bodies
in audiovisual form…
What can we learn
from these developments
in videographic scholarship?
Film scholar
and video essayist
Johannes Binotto
analyzes several of what he calls
“practices of viewing.”
We might also call them techniques
of videographic thought.
For example:
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When we cut our own
audiovisual bodies,
it can sometimes hurt.
We should look for ways
to care for these bodies
— our bodies —
with every cut.
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Videographic film criticism:
Christian Keathley, “Pass the Salt” (2016).
Catherine Grant, “Skipping Rope” (2019).
Kevin B. Lee, “Transformers: The Premake” (2014)
Johannes Binotto, “Practices of Viewing” (2021).
with thanks to Alan O’Leary
“Techniques of Videographic Thought”
Ben Spatz
Editorial video essay
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