What if Dorothy never made it inside the farmhouse on the day of the storm? What if the portal to elsewhere wasn’t a bump on the head but a gaping maw into the unknown? What if Dorothy was trapped outside with it?In conversation with: Viktoria Paranyuk and Sadia Quraeshi Shepard
Made for the Conceptual Epigraph exercise, devised by Ways of Doing waysofdoing.com/ My collaborators for this piece were Dayna McLeod and Sadia Quareshi Shepard. I used this exercise to help me think through some ideas and formal choices for my video essay “Meet Part | Mothers Daughters”, published in Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and […]
I made this video to interact with the “Conceptual Epigraph” videographic exercise developed by the Ways of Doing initiative. As explained on the website, the exercise is “part of an exploratory series, this exercise is designed to encourage feminist citational practices in which the process is envisioned as a means of public thinking through a […]
Made for the Ways of Doing ‘Conceptual Epigraph’ videographic exercise, using All That Heaven Allows (1955), Priscilla (2023) and I Saw the TV Glow (2024). Inspired by the writing of Maryam Tafakory, accompanying ‘Chaste/Unchaste’, and responses from Catherine Grant and Maria Walsh. This is part of a series of exercises exploring feminist citation designed by […]
Made for the Ways of Doing ‘Conceptual Epigraph’ videographic exercise, using Kairo / Pulse (2001, Japan). Inspired by the writing of Maryam Tafakory, accompanying ‘Chaste/Unchaste’, and responses from Catherine Grant and Maria Walsh, published in [in]Transition 10.3 (2023). This is part of a series of exercises exploring feminist citation designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen […]
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 […]
I made this video to interact with the “Making Materiality Matter: Johannes Binotto’s Art of the Process” videographic exercise developed by the Ways of Doing initiative. As explained on the website, the exercise is “part of an exploratory series, this exercise is designed to encourage feminist citational practices in which the process is envisioned as […]
A videographic exercise inspired by the work of Johannes Binotto and using the film Midsommar (2019). This is part of a series of exercises exploring feminist citation designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod and Alison Peirse. waysofdoing.com/feminist-citational-exercisesFor research purposes only
I made this video to interact with the “Dis/Re/Orienting Cinematic Language” videographic exercise developed by the Ways of Doing initiative. As explained on the website, the exercise is “part of an exploratory series, this exercise is designed to encourage feminist citational practices in which the process is envisioned as a means of public thinking through […]
Inspired by Barbara Zecchi’s “Being Dolls” (2023), “The Accented Sound of Camp” (2023), and “169 Seconds: Improbable Dialogism or the Art of Flying” (2022). The “Dis/Re/Orienting Cinematic Language” exercise was developed by the Ways of Doing Collective (Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod, and Alison Peirse). For Relaxing Times (A Dis/Re/Orienting Cinematic Language Exercise) […]
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 […]
“Found in Transition” videographic exercise developed by the Ways of Doing initiative: waysofdoing.com/feminist-citational-exercises/found-in-transition-catherine-grants-dissolves-of-passion/ Modelled after Catherine Grant’s “Dissolves of Passion”: vimeo.com/145070069
Made in December 2023 as part of the “Ways of Doing” initiative – a network and archive of ongoing collaborations and methodological practices developed by videographic scholar-makers Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod and Alison Peirse. This video experiment is designed after the following prompt: Inspired by Catherine Grant and her work DISSOLVES OF […]
A videographic exercise inspired by the work of Barbara Zecchi and using the film Midsommar (2019). This is part of a series of exercises exploring feminist citation designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod and Alison Peirse. waysofdoing.com/feminist-citational-exercisesFor research purposes only
I made this video to interact with the “Found in Transition” videographic exercise developed by the Ways of Doing initiative. As explained on the website, the exercise is “part of an exploratory series, this exercise is designed to encourage feminist citational practices in which the process is envisioned as a means of public thinking through […]
A short examination of hard cuts in Midsommar (2019), a videographic exercise exploring feminist citation: Found in Transition: Catherine Grant’s Dissolves of Passion (designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod and Alison Peirse). waysofdoing.com/feminist-citational-exercises/found-in-transition-catherine-grants-dissolves-of-passion/For research purposes only.
A study of the wipe transitions from Desert Hearts (directed by Donna Deitch, 1985) that have been slowed down and feathered with a pink overlay. An homage to Catherine Grant and her video essay, Dissolves of Passion (2015), vimeo.com/145070069
