Category Archives: Videographic

This video essay explores Tarkovsky’s 1979 sci-fi classic, Stalker, through the lens of the philosophical concept of hauntology. Hauntology refers to the potential for dead or dying ideals to return and haunt the cultural ethos of subsequent generations. This essay … Continue reading →

A companion video essay section to accompany the Digital Media dossier in FM 11.1 (2020) produced by Jennifer O’Meara and students, Trinity College Dublin. Another Cinema, Cinema of the OtherBy Giorgiomaria Cornelio and Lauren “Ren” O’Hare Artists’ Statement: Conceived as an … Continue reading →

This video essay analyzes the similarities between modern-day self-imaging via social media and celebrity culture within the framework of Satoshi Kon’s 1997 masterpiece Perfect Blue. In vacillating between reality and hallucinatory fantasy, the protagonist Mima becomes unable to distinguish between … Continue reading →

A video essay — by Nathan Simms — curated by Fabrizio Cilento and students, Messiah College, to coincide with their guest-edited dossiers on contemporary science fiction in issues 8.3 (2017) and 9.1 (2018). Circular Storytelling in Arrival from Cinemablography on … Continue reading →

This is the second “videographic” edition of Film Matters (the first can be accessed at https://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2017/03/17/introduction-videographic-essays-issue-1-2017-by-allison-de-fren-adam-charles-hart/). It features four undergraduate audiovisual essays that are each global in scope and varied in their interests. As in the previous edition, we attempted … Continue reading →

Framing Time: Tsai Ming Liang’s What Time Is It There? (2001) from Catrina Sun-Tan on Vimeo. Framing Time: Tsai Ming-liang’s What Time Is It There? Catrina Sun-Tan, Wellesley College Tsai Ming-liang’s style is not for everyone — the first time … Continue reading →

Gendered Resistance and Composition in the Film Timbuktu Alyne Figueiredo Gonçalves, Middlebury College Timbuktu is a gorgeous movie, and when I was investigating the use of composition in it, I naively, almost naturally, started focusing on the shots that were … Continue reading →

Slowness and Slow Cinema from Spencer Slovic on Vimeo. Slowness and Slow Cinema Spencer Slovic, Stanford University Writing on “slow cinema” often focuses on two poles of pacing in film: the fast-cutting, intensified continuity of twenty-first-century Hollywood, and the glacial, … Continue reading →

Perpetuating the Witch-Hunt: Animals and Female Power in Film from Hillia Aho on Vimeo. Perpetuating the Witch-Hunt: Animals and Female Power in Film Hillia Aho, Occidental College I created this video essay as an honors project, to accompany my senior … Continue reading →