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Ariel Avissar
@arielavissar.bsky.social
Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism.
https://www.arielavissar.work/
https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
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We’re excited to welcome Prof. Jason Mittell (Middlebury College, USA) for two insightful sessions exploring television narrative and videographic criticism.
📅 23 October | 14:00–16:00
Guest Lecture: “Complex TV … Continued”
📍 Conti Hochhaus, Room 609
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Excited to have my latest videographic experiment published in 16:9: 16-9.dk/2025/10/the-...
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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"There is something in its constructed-ness that seems to demand a normative reading of the video, i.e., what it is saying about this character—the wrestler—and how he is treated by the film and by himself." @arielavissar.bsky.social's fragment in our 2nd collection. fragments.video/2025/06/19/t...
October 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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In honour of Julie Andrews' 90th birthday tomorrow (and indeed, the 60th anniversary year of #TheSoundofMusic), here's the Screen Stars Dictionary entry I made a couple of years ago. 'Voice'.

#JulieAndrews #MaryPoppins #voice #videoessay @arielavissar.bsky.social
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Julie Andrews. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jemma Saunders (University of Birmingham)
This is "Julie Andrews. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jemma Saunders (University of Birmingham)" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for…
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September 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I placed two videos (by @sennahojottonib.bsky.social, @misek.bsky.social and Martine.Beugnet) side by side, and, well.... wow: vimeo.com/1122450439
Color | Blur (side by side)
A side by side juxtaposition of Johannes Binotto's "Practices of Viewing: Color" and Richard Misek and Martine Beugnet's "In Praise…
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September 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Very happy to have contributed a (35-seconds-long) fragment to the 2nd collection of @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social, alongside fragments by @drdanobrien.bsky.social, @bolddecade.bsky.social , @ursmusically.bsky.social, and others!
Our 2nd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 9 fragments (from eight creators) ranging from 35 seconds to an hour. fragments.video
September 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Our 2nd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 9 fragments (from eight creators) ranging from 35 seconds to an hour. fragments.video
September 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Screen Stars Dictionary #37: Ana Torrent, by Celia Sainz: vimeo.com/1104217407
Ana Torrent. Screen Stars Dictionary
This is "Ana Torrent. Screen Stars Dictionary" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Screen Stars Dictionary #34: Jessica Lange, by Flavia Soubiran: vimeo.com/1104222172
Jessica Lange. Screen Stars Dictionary
This is "Jessica Lange. Screen Stars Dictionary" by JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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August 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Now on Tecmerin: "Aging Stars – Fading to Dust or Shining as Stardust?", a special edition of the Screen Stars Dictionary, w/special guest curator @barbarazecchi.bsky.social!

Watch all seven wonderful pieces here: vimeo.com/showcase/118...
August 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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My new video essay featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia, the journal of the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network.
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You can find the journal at the link below
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/...
The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself
Featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/issue/view/1380 Screening…
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July 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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I've been working on this project for a long time and am excited to finally share "The Video Essay About The Show" publicly! It's a multipart video essay about "The Show About The Show," the cult webseries - check it out:
The Video Essay About The Show
For the past year, I’ve been working on a long-form project that I’m finally ready to share publicly. In Fall 2024, I taught a new course entitled Faking Reality: Mockumentaries, Hoaxes…
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July 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
TV Dictionary - entry #118: The Tripods, by David Martin-Jones

Another lovely entry from David - and a reminder that, even after an entire year's hiatus, the TV Dictionary is always accepting new additions!

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TV Dictionary - The Tripods
"The Tripods" in one word. Part of the TV Dictionary collection: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8660446
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July 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Two more days to join our summer project!
🎬 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂 𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐒! 🎬
This summer, we're diving into the New York Times' 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list — and we want you to join us! We’re very interested to see what kinds of works might come out of a collective analysis of/reflection on the same curation of films...
July 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🎬 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂 𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐒! 🎬
This summer, we're diving into the New York Times' 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list — and we want you to join us! We’re very interested to see what kinds of works might come out of a collective analysis of/reflection on the same curation of films...
June 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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New banger of a newsletter. See what we’ve been up to. 👀 Follow some links to new ideas and opportunities. ✨

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June 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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"framed as it is in this Zoom interface, I imagine for many of us it is a reminder of the virtual gatherings that became so ubiquitous during the COVID lockdowns" @jemsaunders1.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/04/03/w...
June 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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"As a teaser for a video essay that has not (yet) materialised, this approach is succinct and logical but certainly leaves one with questions about what may have followed" Rich Matthews' fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/05/21/w...
June 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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"Is this a slow videographic practice? I might even call it ‘furniture videographics’ but then that would do it a disservice." @richardlangley.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/05/01/s...
June 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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"I was genuinely excited by the idea of ‘seeing through sound’...with an immediate feeling of ‘I want to try that!’." @cormacrestrike.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/03/04/b...
June 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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"Is it an injustice to label this a fragment? It feels complete in the same way that a rhyming couplet out of context is still complete." @barbarazecchi.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find our more here fragments.video/2025/05/13/r...
June 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM