Embodied Supercut
Supercut: Alison Peirse
Exercise created by Dayna McLeod for the Embodying the Video Essay Videographic Workshop, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 2023. Information on the exercise prompt at our Ways of Doing website: waysofdoing.com/resources/embodied-supercut/
Supercut: Quan Zhang
In this supercut, I look at the exclamations (or ad-libs, as the music industry would call them) in K-pop music and music videos. They are sounds (or language) yearning to grow and fill space; however, by limiting their natural expansion through supercuts, it should provoke a unique bodily response and deliver a space (or metaverse??) […]
Supercut: Jeffrey Romero Middents
A supercut tracing the points in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men where the camera stops following the main character and diverts to something outside the film’s explicit narrative. Note: after completing this exercise, I discovered there is a 7th instance (right before Janice is killed). Crafted in Summer 2023 to fulfill the “Embodied Supercut” exercise […]
Supercut: Daniel Pope
A supercut exercise for “Embodying the Video Essay” workshop at Bowdoin College 2023.
Supercut: Joel Burges
Initially, I used various levels of opacity to create a much more sentimental supercut about masculine movement and gay desire. I also excerpted a song from “Call Me by Your Name” that emphasized sentimentality (see embodied supercut #1). But then I decided I wanted to do something more formal than felt, restricting myself to the […]
Supercut: Colleen Laird
I made this video in preparation for attending the “Embodying the Video Essay” workshop at Bowdoin College in July, 2023. The exercise, designed by Dayna McLeod, had a list of parameters with the aim of re-familiarizing participants with the main media object they would explore during the workshop. Details about the exercise can be found […]
Supercut: Lucy Fife Donaldson
Made in advance of ‘Embodying the Video Essay’ workshop, Bowdoin College, July 2023. Based on an audiovisual exercise designed by Dayna McLeod. For research purposes only.
Supercut: Dayna McLeod
I started off this supercut thinking I wanted to collect instances of characters touching each other in Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991). However, because I didn’t want to re-show any part of the attempted rape scene, I started cutting out all of the men and focused on when Thelma and Louise touch each other. […]
