Shows
The Video Essay PodcastKatie Bird on Approaches to Videographic PracticeOn today's episode, Katie Bird discusses her work and practice in an interview with Johannes Binotto. Much of their conversation centers on Katie's 2023 desktop documentary, "With a Camera in Hand, I Was Alive." Katie and Johannes discuss the potentials of videographic practice, filming oneself as a method of videographic criticism, and her work as an independent scholar and industry professional. Other works discussed include, "young (woman) filmmaker(s)" (2023), "Feeling and Thought as They Take Form: Early Steadicam Labor, Technology, and Style, 1974-1985" (2019), and Katie's research on editing and Gunsmoke. This episode is the eighth in...2025-05-0955 min
The Video Essay PodcastEpisode 7. How to Measure the World - Filmexplorer’s Video Essay GalleryToday's episode features the latest collaboration with the Swiss publication, Filmexplorer. For the second time, Filmexplorer has invited guest curators to select video essays to screen as part of their online Video Essay Gallery. In this conversation, Evelyn Kreutzer, Julian Ross, and Volker Pantenburg discuss three videos they curated under the theme, "How to Measure the World." For more, visit filmexplorer.ch.
The conversation centers on three works:
Volker Pantenburg presents:capricorn sunset [a constellation] (2023) by Johannes Binotto
Julian Ross presents:Constant (2022) by Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner2024-12-2335 min
The Video Essay PodcastOn "Ways of Doing" w/ Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod, and Alison PeirseToday's episode features an interview with Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod and Alison Peirse on their ongoing series of collaborations and methodological practices, "Ways of Doing." They are interviewed by Kevin B. Lee.
This episode is the seventh in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National...2024-12-021h 07
The Video Essay PodcastAlan O’Leary and Evelyn Kreutzer on the Importance of Writing on Video EssaysThere’s been a lot of debate about what the relationship should be between videographic criticism and writing. Some have wondered if video essays could function as stand-alone scholarship and break free from having to be framed by text-based explanations such as creator statements or peer reviews. But even if one acknowledges the role of writing in advancing videographic scholarship, another question emerges: which writing?
At this year's SCMS annual meeting in Boston, videographic scholars Evelyn Kreutzer and Alan O’Leary observed that several video essay presentations would cite texts from feminist film studies, genre...2024-08-2256 min
The Video Essay PodcastTHE EXTENDED PLAY: Johannes Binotto & Kevin B. Lee Live at Austellungsraum KlingentalatFrom movies to television, YouTube to TikTok, it’s a big world of audiovisual media out there. How many videographic works have tried to take them all in? A new installation work has tried to do just that. The Extended Play is a collaboration between artists Anina Müller and Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, which was exhibited at the Austellungsraum Klingental in Basel. The piece consists of four videos, or tracks, that function like a musical EP. Collectively they explore how moving images influence the ways humans inhabit their bodies, an extended play if you will.
T...2024-06-1231 min
The Video Essay PodcastMaking Video Essays About Alice DiopToday's episode is the fourth in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
In this episode, Kevin talks with project members Libertad Gills, Marine de Dardel, and Silvia Cipelletti about the experience of making video essays on the work of Alice Diop, the featured filmmaker at...2024-05-0134 min
The Video Essay PodcastOn Videographic Berlinale: Viewing Tips with Libertad Gills & Evelyn KreutzerToday's episode is the third in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
In this episode, Evelyn talks with Libertad Gills, a project affiliate and post-doctoral researcher for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at the Locarno Film Festival, about works they encountered at this year's Berlinale that might...2024-04-0837 min
A Damn Fine Cup of CultureA Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #78: Just one more thing – The Columbo Episode
TV and murder are made for one another, and the crime series is still one of the most popular genres in television – but there’s no one quite like Lieutenant Columbo, the crumpled, harmless-seeming homicide detective played so memorably by Peter Falk, in ten seasons and 69 episodes over a stretch of 35 years (if you include the specials). What makes the series, and the character, so enduring? Join Sam, Julie (valiantly fighting a sore throat in order to take part in this conversation on one of her favourites!) and returning special guest Johannes Binotto (video essayist and Professor for Film and...2024-03-021h 20
The Video Essay PodcastOn Weirdness and Memory: Viewing Tips with Evelyn Kreutzer & Kevin B. LeeToday's episode is the second in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
In this conversation, Kevin talks with Evelyn about her picks for the 2023 survey of the year's best video essays by Sight & Sound magazine. Evelyn's selections serve as an entry point for the two to discuss the...2024-02-2038 min
The Video Essay PodcastCurating Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of 2023Today's episode centers on Sight & Sound magazine's new list, "The Best Video Essays of 2023." In a conversation moderated by Kevin B. Lee, the curators of this year's list, Irina Trocan, Queline Meadows, and Will Webb, discuss the results of the poll, their curatorial strategies, and offer general thoughts on the video essay landscape in 2023.
This episode is the first in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and Kevin B. Lee, who, in his role as the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, is leading a three-year research...2023-12-1941 min
DialogplatzJohannes Binottos zerzauster StofffischJohannes Binotto ist der Schreiber hinter der Lomo-Kolumne im «Landboten». Im Dialogplatz-Podcast spricht er über seine Ängste, Probleme beim Schreiben und stellt ein Stofftier aus seiner Kindheit vor.Wann welches Thema besprochen wird:01:21 Wieso Johannes Binotto gerne Hüte trägt03:40 Sind die Leute zu streng mit sich selbst?05:15 Die Altersmilde in den Kolumnen07:12 Wer ist eigentlich dieser Lomo?09:40 Binottos Spieluhrenfisch13:19 Sein Beruf als Filmwissenschaftler17:33 Wie er mit Schreibblockaden umgeht29:16 «Die Ambivalenz begleitet uns das ganze Leben»33:53 Binotttos Forschung zum Unheimlichen37:07 Was Binotto Angst macht42:38 Die Faszination USA47:15 Wieso er in Winterthur geblieben ist
2023-02-2249 minA Damn Fine Cup of CultureA Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast Christmas Special 2022
It’s that time of the year again: join the gang at A Damn Fine Cup of Culture for a festive celebration and a look back at the year. In keeping with our big summer series, the Summer of Directors, we’re thinking back on the five episodes where we talked about Jane Campion, Dario Argento, Ida Lupino, Robert Altman and Martin Scorsese. Featuring contributions from our regulars Sam and Alan as well as this year’s wonderful guests Johannes Binotto, lecturer and video essayist, and Dan Thron of Martini Giant (who’s also had a lot to say about St...2022-12-2433 min
The Video Essay PodcastEpisode 32. Openness & Videographic CriticismToday's episode of The Video Essay Podcast features reflections from the organizers and participants of a recent symposium held in Hannover, Germany from November 2-4, 2022, "Videography: Art and Academia. Epistemological, Political and Pedagogical Potentials of Audiovisual Practices." Learn more about the symposium here.
The episode begins with a roundtable discussion between the symposium organizers -- Anna-Sophie Philippi, Maike Reinerth, Kathleen Loock, and Evelyn Kreutzer -- and is then followed by short reflections from symposium participants on the theme of openness. Specifically, participants were asked to "reflect on the term 'openness', as it emerged prominently in Hannover, such as...2022-12-0154 minThe Video Essay PodcastEpisode 5. Re-Inhabiting the Image - Filmexplorer’s Video Essay GalleryToday's episode features the fifth conversation between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the final exhibition of Filmexplorer’s Video Essay Gallery, “Re-Inhabiting the Image.” Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes. Exhibition five will be available to watch on the Filmexplorer website until November 30, 2022.
Episode topics include: "A video essay can express a form of embodiment that does not require the image of the body. The last selection of video essays lets emerge sensuality, where the sense of t...2022-11-141h 06The Video Essay PodcastEpisode 4. Technopresence - Filmexplorer’s Video Essay GalleryToday's episode features the fourth of five conversations between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the fourth exhibition of Filmexplorer’s Video Essay Gallery, “Technopresence.” Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes. Exhibition four will be available to watch on the Filmexplorer website until October 30, 2022.
Episode topics include: "Is the body ghostly present in the technological use and representation? How can we embody the technology of video essays? How much technology guides the subject’s choices, and so displace o...2022-10-171h 02
The Video Essay PodcastEpisode 3. (Dis)possessions - Filmexplorer’s Video Essay GalleryToday's episode features the third of five conversations between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the third exhibition of Filmexplorer’s Video Essay Gallery, “(Dis)possessions.” Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes.
Episode topics include: "Does the viewer possess the film or does the film possess the viewer? Is the viewer’s experience of dispossession nothing but the dissociation that is generated by film editing? Does this dissociation amount to the consciousness of using a medium??"
A speci...2022-09-2649 min
Sounds! ZentraleSounds! Story: Alles fliegt – Weshalb Fans Dinge auf Bühnen schmeissenOb Fledermaus, Lollipop oder Unterwäsche – diese Sounds! Story zeigt auf, wie geworfene Gegenstände Popgeschichte schreiben.
«Konzerte sind Messen, nach dem Tod von Gott», sagt Kulturwissenschaftler Johannes Binotto. Und er erklärt im gleichen Atemzug, auf welche kulturellen Rituale es zurückzuführen ist, dass Popfans Gegenstände auf Bühnen werfen. Von Tom Jones, an dessen Konzerten sich der Unterwäsche-Wurf zum tragenden Showelement etablierte, über Alice Cooper, dem ein fliegendes Huhn angeworfen wurde, bis zu den Black Eyed Peas, deren Fans Handys auf die Bühne schmeissen. Diese Sounds! Story ordnet ein und wirft die Frage auf, was das popkul...2022-09-2018 minThe Video Essay PodcastThird Anniversary Show: Part IThe Video Essay Podcast turned three-years-old in July! On today's show, Will offers highlights from the first ten episodes of the show. Topics include:
[02:15] - Catherine Grant on "working in the flow"
[03:48] - Philip Brubaker on an early influence
[05:20] - Grace Lee on drafting a script
[06:59] - Jacob Swinney on the act of watching
[08:17] - Adrian Martin on collaboration
[10:51] - Jennifer Proctor on filmmakers as essayists
[12:57] - Chloé Galibert-Laîné on the desktop documentary
[14:43] - Johannes Binotto on inspirations
[16:23] - Charlie Shackleton on an early work
Be on...2022-09-0818 min
The Video Essay PodcastEpisode 2. Online Affects - Filmexplorer’s Video Essay GalleryToday's episode features the second of five conversations between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the second exhibition of Filmexplorer’s Video Essay Gallery, “Online Affects”. Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes. This second exhibition is available on the Filmexplorer website until July 16, 2022.
Works discussed include:
Distant Feeling(s) #9 by Annie Abrahams and Daniel Pinheiro
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Wang Yuyan
How to Perform Teaching Du...2022-07-1133 minA Damn Fine Cup of CultureA Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #58: Summer of Directors – Ida Lupino
Our Summer of Directors reaches its midpoint, with an episode that is special in two different respects. For one thing, we’re talking about an artist whose name should be much, much more familiar than it is: Ida Lupino, the English-American actress, singer, writer, producer, and, yes, director, whose films such as Outrage, The Bigamist and The Hitch-Hiker are fascinating, intriguing, and unusually frank (not only for the time!), dealing with topics such as rape and its social fallout or toxic masculinity long before such topics were common in the movies, and in ways that are more intriguing and nu...2022-07-021h 21
The Video Essay PodcastEpisode 1. Home Positions - Filmexplorer’s Video Essay GalleryToday's episode features the first of five conversations between Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto, recorded as part of the first exhibition of Filmexplorer’s Video Essay Gallery, “Home Positions”. Filmexplorer, a publication based in Switzerland, invited Chloé, Kevin, and Johannes to each curate video essays centered on various themes. This first exhibition is available on the Filmexplorer website until June 12, 2022.
Episode topics include: "home as the uncanny place of defamiliarization, discomfort in embodiment and memory, trusting the experimental and amateur approach as revelatory, video essay as post-cinematic experience, video-essay as opening the potentialities of cinema...2022-06-0733 min
The Video Essay PodcastThe TV Dictionary w/ Ariel AvissarToday's episode features a short conversation with Ariel Avissar, a lecturer, PhD student and Tisch Film School Scholar at Tel Aviv University, and the creator and curator of the ongoing TV Dictionary project. The premise of the project? Try to capture the essence of a TV series with only a single word. The task? Make a short video that pairs the dictionary definition(s) of that work with a clip or clips from a single series.
[3:20] - The origins of TV Dictionary
[7:48] - Inviting new (and experienced) video essayists to join the project
[10:28...2022-05-3126 min
LiteraturfensterLiteraturverfilmungen im VisierNicht immer sind Literaturverfilmungen so aufregend wie Jane Campions «The Power of the Dog» und Rebecca Halls «Passing». Die beiden Netflix-Produktionen basieren auf fast vergessenen Romanen und machen gesellschaftliche Gräben in den USA der 1920er Jahre transparent für die Gegenwart.
Nella Larsen («Passing», 1929) und Thomas Savage («The Power of the Dog», 1967) untersuchen in ihren Büchern US-amerikanische Lebensläufe – Larsen in den schwarzen Communities von New York, Savage auf den Ranches im Westen. Schillernd zeigen sie Homophobie und Rassismus und die (selbst-)zerstörerischen Reaktionen der Betroffenen.
Wie machen Jane Campion und Rebecca Hall aus diesen Stoffen packend aktuelle Filme...2022-01-1729 min
Gardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsWonderful how I celebrate you and myself // Dylan WatkinsWonderful how I celebrate you and myself
How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around!
How the clouds pass silently overhead!
How the earth darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on! How the water sports and sings! (surely it is alive!)
How the trees rise and stand up, with strong trunks, with branches and leaves!
(Surely there is something more in each of the trees, some living soul.)
O amazement of things—even the least particle!
O spirituality of things!
O str...2021-10-2701 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsMiracles // Brian HuberWhy, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
Or look at...2021-10-2702 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsVocalism // Emma PeetersVocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words;
Are you full-lung’d and limber-lipp’d from long trial? from vigorous practice? from physique?
Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?
Come duly to the divine power to speak words?
For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
After treading ground and breasting river and lake,
After a loosen’d throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes,
After complete faith, after c...2021-10-2701 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsEver upon this stage // Andrin PeterhansEver upon this stage,
Is acted God’s calm annual drama,
Gorgeous processions, songs of birds,
Sunrise that fullest feeds and freshens most the soul,
The heaving sea, the waves upon the shore, the musical, strong waves,
The woods, the stalwart trees, the slender, tapering trees,
The liliput countless armies of the grass,
The heat, the showers, the measureless pasturages,
The scenery of the snows, the winds’ free orchestra,
The stretching light-hung roof of clouds, the clear cerulean and the silvery fringes,
The high-dilating stars, the placid beckoning stars,
...2021-10-2702 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsLook down fair moon // Jay DürigLook down fair moon and bathe this scene,
Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
On the dead on their backs with arms toss’d wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon.2021-10-2702 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsGive me the splendid silent sun // Lena KissoczyGive me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
Give me autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows,
Give me an arbor, give me the trellis’d grape,
Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,
Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb’d,
Give me for ma...2021-10-2702 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsTo a President // Anna-Lena GruberAll you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
You have not learn’d of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have not learn’d the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from these States.2021-10-2701 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsMe and mine, loose windrows, little corpses // Johannes BinottoMe and mine, loose windrows, little corpses,
Froth, snowy white, and bubbles,
(See, from my dead lips the ooze exuding at last,
See, the prismatic colors glistening and rolling,)
Tufts of straw, sands, fragments,
Buoy’d hither from many moods, one contradicting another,
From the storm, the long calm, the darkness, the swell,
Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil,
Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented and thrown,
A limp blossom or two, torn, just as much over waves floating, dr...2021-10-2702 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsAlways our old feuillage! // Carmen WaldvogelAll the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of these States, reminiscences, institutions,
All these States compact, every square mile of these States without excepting a particle;
Me pleas’d, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok’s fields,
Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
The country boy at the close of the day driving the herd of cows and shouting to them as they loit...2021-10-2702 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsFrom this hour I ordain myself loos’d // Luka GaljerFrom this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
Listening to others, considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
I inhale great draughts of space,
The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.
I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness.
All seems be...2021-10-2702 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsWe two boys together clinging // Gian-Luca KuoniWe two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm’d and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.2021-10-2700 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsTrickle drops // Sinja BucherTrickle drops! my blue veins leaving!
O drops of me! trickle, slow drops,
Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops,
From wounds made to free you whence you were prison’d,
From my face, from my forehead and lips,
From my breast, from within where I was conceal’d, press forth red drops, confession drops, Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops,
Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten,
Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet, Glow upon all I have written or s...2021-10-2700 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsWe two, how long we were fool’d // Claudia WindWe two, how long we were fool’d,
Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,
We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return,
We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark,
We are bedded in the ground, we are rocks,
We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side,
We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,
We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,
We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings,
We...2021-10-2701 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsWe Two, How Long We Were Fool'd // Daniela Diaz SalgadoWe two, how long we were fool’d,
Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,
We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return,
We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark,
We are bedded in the ground, we are rocks,
We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side,
We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,
We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,
We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings,
We...2021-10-2702 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsOut of the rolling ocean the crowd // Hannah KünzlerOut of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me,
Whispering I love you, before long I die,
I have travel’d a long way merely to look on you to touch you, For I could not die till I once look’d on you, For I fear’d I might afterward lose you.
Now we have met, we have look’d, we are safe,
Return in peace to the ocean my love,
I too am part of that ocean my love, we are not so much separated, Behold the great ro...2021-10-2701 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsDead poets, philosophs, priests // Adrian WolfensbergerDead poets, philosophs, priests,
Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since,
Language-shapers on other shores,
Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate,
I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither,
I have perused it, own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it,)
Think nothing can ever be greater, nothing can ever deserve more than it deserves, Regarding it all intently a long while, then dismissing it, I stand in my place with my own day here.2021-10-2701 minGardens and Machines: The Whitman Field RecordingsIn cabin’d ships at sea // Alessia CusanoIn cabin’d ships at sea,
The boundless blue on every side expanding,
With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious waves,
Or some lone bark buoy’d on the dense marine,
Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails,
She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night,
By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read, In full rapport at last.
Here are our thou...2021-10-2702 min
Dritte Klappe - Podcast für Film, Forschung und WissenstransferDenkbewegung durch Video EssaysUnabgeschlossen, versuchhaft, sich vortastend: Video Essays sind kritische Landkarten, bei denen die Kamera zu Stift und Papier wird. Als eine Form des Nachdenkens hinterfragen Video Essays die Fixiertheit von Wissen. Ob als analytischer Kommentarfilm, found footage-artige Montage oder DIY Experimentalfilm - Video Essays werden nicht nur unter Fachleuten, cinephilen Akademiker:innen, sondern auch bei Amateur:innen immer beliebter. Den Video Essay eindeutig zu definieren, ist allerdings schwer. Und damit fängt es schon an: Heißt es überhaupt "der" Video Essay? Oder "das"? - "Geht beides!" sagt Dr. Johannes Binotto. Der Schweizer Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftler und Video-Essayist spricht in dieser Epi...2021-09-0144 min
FILMEXPLORER Podcasts (English)Critical Clicks: The Challenges of Digital Film PublishingRound table on the challenges of digital film publishing with Ekkehard Knörer, Nadine Mai, Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Johannes Binotto, in collaboration with the Industry Talks of Visions du Réel Nyon 2019 (moderation: Pascaline Sordet).2021-03-171h 39
The Video Essay PodcastEpisode 11. The 2019 Sight & Sound PollWill is joined by his fellow co-editors of the 2019 Sight & Sound magazine poll of the best video essays of the year, Grace Lee (What's So Great About That?) and Ariel Avissar. They discuss what it was like editing the poll, what changed about the poll this year, how they'd like to see the poll evolve in the future, and how they made their own selections. The second half of the show features commentary from nine contributors to this year's poll: Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Scout Tafoya, Jason Mittell, Philip Brubaker, Andrea Moran (on behalf of FILMADRID), Shannon Strucci, Ian Garwood, Osw...2020-01-311h 03
The Video Essay PodcastEpisode 9. Johannes BinottoScholar Johannes Binotto joins the show to discuss his video essays on John Ford's Stagecoach and François Truffaut. He and Will also discuss Hartmut Bitomsky’s 1991 essay film, Das Kino und der Wind und die Photographie (The Cinema and the Wind and Photography).
Music via: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mela/Mela_two/MELA_-_Mela_Two_-_05_Brain_Power2019-12-2340 min
Filmpodium Zurich TALKSElisabeth Bronfen und Johannes Binotto im Gespräch über BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEINDie beiden Kulturwissenschaftler Elisabeth Bronfen und Johannes Binotto haben sich im Anschluss an die Vorstellung von James Whales BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN vom Dienstag, 29.1. im Filmpodium Zürich über den Stoff und seine Verfilmungen unterhalten.
«It's alive!» schreit Colin Clive als Titelheld in James Whales Frankenstein von 1931. Quicklebendig und faktisch unzerstörbar ist auch der Mythos Frankenstein selbst. Das Geschöpf, das Mary Shelleys arroganter Antiheld aus Leichen gebastelt hat, ist schon tausend Filmtode gestorben, um immer wieder in neuer Form zu erstehen. Auch die Figur des ehrgeizigen Forschers, der die Folgen seines Tuns nicht bedenkt, bis es zu spät ist, ha...2019-02-0743 min
Filmpodium Zurich TALKSPodiumsgespräch Ida LupinoAuf dem Podium sprachen Lukas Foerster (Filmkritiker und Kurator aus Berlin), Ivo Ritzer (Juniorprofessor an der Universität Bayreuth), Elisabeth Bronfen (Ordinaria an der Universität Zürich), Hanna Schoch (Assistentin an der Universität Zürich) sowie Prof. Fabienne Liptay (Seminar für Filmwissenschaft), Dr. Johannes Binotto (Englisches Seminar) und Prof. Barbara Straumann (Englisches Seminar) von der Universität Zürich.2016-06-0914 min