This video applies a deformative logic to images taken from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” (1989), connecting them intertextually with the film “Under the Skin” (2013), which provides the music for the piece. It thus highlights and accentuates the violent, rageful gender dynamics of “The Little Mermaid”, reimagining it as a nightmarish scene of body horror […]
Exercise created by Dayna McLeod for the Embodying the Video Essay Videographic Workshop, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 2023 Thanks to Lucy Fife Donaldson for the cinematography Information on the exercise prompt at our Ways of Doing website: waysofdoing.com/resources/embodied-media-encounters/
An exercise focusing on my embodied emotional response to a key scene in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. I filmed myself watching 10 minutes of this sequence with two cameras trained on my face. This most openly vulnerable of responses led to a larger examination of spectatorship and memory.
More scholarly than the embodied cameo, this piece is an initial exploration of how we at times forget about television in telling the story of gay male representation, especially by granting priority to film history. While a film like “Cruising” occupies an infamous place in that story, the visual repetition and sonic layering here aim […]
I made this video at the “Embodying the Video Essay” workshop at Bowdoin College in July, 2023. The exercise, designed by Dayna McLeod, had a list of parameters to help practitioners think about the embodied materiality of our media texts. In this case, I focused on the town of Onomichi itself. Details about the exercise […]
Made during ‘Embodying the Video Essay’ workshop, Bowdoin College, July 2023. Based on an audiovisual exercise designed by Dayna McLeod. For research purposes only.
I wanted to focus on the seams of scenes and shots touching, through multi-screen and look at how repetition effects the content. I was also drawn to the sound of the bullets when I cut the sound with the image, noticing that the aural power of the gunshot was not with Louise for her first […]
