Made for ‘The Conceptual Epigraph’ exercise (2025), as part of our Feminist Citational Practices series.
Alison Peirse
Making Materiality Matter: Alison Peirse
Suffocated but Screaming is a response to “Making Materiality Matter: Johannes Binotto’s Art of the Process” videographic exercise developed by the Ways of Doing initiative. It explores the figure of the woman-cat-monster in Japanese kaibyo eiga (ghost cat horror films). The first screening of this work will be at the Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia […]
Dis/Re/Orienting Cinematic Language: Alison Peirse
For publication in a forthcoming In Media Res special issue, Hollywood Film Style and the Production Code: Criticism and History, edited by Tom Brown. The formal parameters for this video essay were taken from ‘Dis/Re/Orienting Cinematic Language: Barbara Zecchi’s Feminist Mechanisms’, one of Feminist Citational Practice exercises devised by the Ways of Doing collective (Lucy […]
Taste and Smell: 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/taste-and-smell/
Embodied Media Encounters: Alison Peirse
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/
Onscreen Cameo: 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/onscreen-cameo/
Embodied Sound: Alison Peirse
Exercise created by Dayna McLeod for the Embodying the Video Essay Videographic Workshop, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 2023 With thanks to Katie Grant, May Santiago and Pablo Torres for the original sound. Information on the exercise prompt at our Ways of Doing website:waysofdoing.com/resources/embodied-sound/
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/
