The Digital Video Essay
Final Report Abstract
The project "The Digital Video Essay" explored the current state of critical audiovisual transformations of existing moving-image media that may be categorized under the umbrella term of the (digital) video essay. I considered how moving-image media in the digital era perform as open, living archives of sounds and images, which are subject to constant audiovisual appropriation, and how their digital accessibility shapes our collective media experiences, environments, and histories. While I focused particularly on academic video essays and digital methods of audiovisual scholarship, I also examined how moving-image media objects (predominantly excerpts from existing films, television programs, and online videos) circulate in-between and transcend formerly distinct media technologies and diWerent realms of media production and audiences more broadly, including experimental, documentary, and installation media. I conducted close analyses, interviews with moving-image makers, and advanced my own videographic research. These investigations have wide-ranging implications for the present and future of digital moving image media scholarship, specifically with regards to the blurring lines between media theory and practice. More importantly, while grounded in the tradition of experimental film, essay film, and documentary, contemporary video essays can be understood as a new audiovisual language that responds to, makes sense of, and transforms the digitization of our lives, experiences, and knowledge.
Publications
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Video Essay: Footsteps. Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 16(2), 97-99.
KREUTZER, EVELYN
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“Once Upon a Screen: Mirror, Mirror.” [in]transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3.
Avissar, Ariel & Evelyn Kreutzer
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En sortant du cinéma. [in]Transition, 9(4).
Kreutzer, Evelyn
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“A Manifesto for Videographic Vulnerability”, Zeitschrfit für Medienwissenschaften: Videography Series, edited by Evelyn Kreutzer, Kathleen Loock, Anna- Sophie Pihilippi, and Maike Reinerth.
Kreutzer, Evelyn & Johannes Binotto
