Cormac Donnelly
@cormacrestrike.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Film LJMU | researching film sound & production
Making video essays & exploring creative practice
Founding editor @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social
Associate Editor @intransition.bsky.social
Making video essays & exploring creative practice
Founding editor @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social
Associate Editor @intransition.bsky.social
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Péter Lichter and Bori Máté's fragment shows "just how much the definition of a fragment can be stretched". Read their extended exploration of the making of the film and watch it as part of our 2nd collection of fragments. Find our more here fragments.video/2025/07/28/t...
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Péter Lichter and Bori Máté's fragment shows "just how much the definition of a fragment can be stretched". Read their extended exploration of the making of the film and watch it as part of our 2nd collection of fragments. Find our more here fragments.video/2025/07/28/t...
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"It’s a subtle (and welcome) reminder of how seemingly insignificant details can, when collated, lead to new ideas or prove worthy of greater aesthetic appreciation." Andrea Comiskey's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/p...
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"It’s a subtle (and welcome) reminder of how seemingly insignificant details can, when collated, lead to new ideas or prove worthy of greater aesthetic appreciation." Andrea Comiskey's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/p...
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"is it a humorous piece? Disturbing? What is the broader context from which this fragment comes? Will it feature in the final essay film or, like the damp loaf, is it now to be discarded?" @bolddecade.bsky.social's fragment in our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/s...
October 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"is it a humorous piece? Disturbing? What is the broader context from which this fragment comes? Will it feature in the final essay film or, like the damp loaf, is it now to be discarded?" @bolddecade.bsky.social's fragment in our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/06/19/s...
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"In Joel’s piece (and his description) I enjoy the idea of returning to a ‘safe’ videographic space, in this case the supercut, though one which is less ‘cut’ and more ‘blend’." Joel Blackledge's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/07/03/t...
October 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"In Joel’s piece (and his description) I enjoy the idea of returning to a ‘safe’ videographic space, in this case the supercut, though one which is less ‘cut’ and more ‘blend’." Joel Blackledge's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more here fragments.video/2025/07/03/t...
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So very excited to announce that as of today the number of Videographic Books in the world has doubled! Check out ADAPTIVE FORMS, Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley's fabulous new open-access book on contemporary science-fiction - complete with video essays on ARRIVAL, SNOWPIERCER, BLACK PANTHER, etc.!!!
Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film
An examination of media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film, with 14 video essays <br><i>Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/videographicbooks/">Videographic Books</a> series</...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
So very excited to announce that as of today the number of Videographic Books in the world has doubled! Check out ADAPTIVE FORMS, Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley's fabulous new open-access book on contemporary science-fiction - complete with video essays on ARRIVAL, SNOWPIERCER, BLACK PANTHER, etc.!!!
'The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself' has made the official selection for the Adelio Ferrero Video Essay prize. Exciting stuff vimeo.com/1074720429
October 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
'The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself' has made the official selection for the Adelio Ferrero Video Essay prize. Exciting stuff vimeo.com/1074720429
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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
"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...
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"The physical recreation of a footage bin...from magazine clippings combines with the carefully arranged Cheezit timeline and other elements to be entirely familiar as an editing space" Benedetta Andreasi's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more fragments.video/2025/06/25/c...
September 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"The physical recreation of a footage bin...from magazine clippings combines with the carefully arranged Cheezit timeline and other elements to be entirely familiar as an editing space" Benedetta Andreasi's fragment published as part of our 2nd collection. Read more fragments.video/2025/06/25/c...
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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
Our 2nd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 9 fragments (from eight creators) ranging from 35 seconds to an hour. fragments.video
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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…
justtv.wordpress.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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:
A wonderful new research/writing/thinking tool for moving image work. Bravo
I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.
July 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A wonderful new research/writing/thinking tool for moving image work. Bravo
My new video essay featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia, the journal of the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network.
vimeo.com/1074720429
You can find the journal at the link below
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/...
vimeo.com/1074720429
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…
vimeo.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
My new video essay featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia, the journal of the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network.
vimeo.com/1074720429
You can find the journal at the link below
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/...
vimeo.com/1074720429
You can find the journal at the link below
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/...
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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
"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...
Hello old friend. On television now in the UK. And all the grain is gone? Or is this me remembering it differently?
June 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Hello old friend. On television now in the UK. And all the grain is gone? Or is this me remembering it differently?
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We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video
May 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video
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Fellow film tech nerds, today I'm launching a brand new demo debunking some common misconceptions about so-called "HDR" colorspace. Up now on my website.
#NerdyFilmTechStuff
www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR
#NerdyFilmTechStuff
www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR
Debunking HDR
by Steve Yedlin
www.yedlin.net
May 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Fellow film tech nerds, today I'm launching a brand new demo debunking some common misconceptions about so-called "HDR" colorspace. Up now on my website.
#NerdyFilmTechStuff
www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR
#NerdyFilmTechStuff
www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR
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The Video Essay Podcast returns!
@jmittell.bsky.social joins to discuss his new videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad, the first in a series he edits for Lever Press.
Listen here:
thevideoessay.com/jason-mittel...
@jmittell.bsky.social joins to discuss his new videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad, the first in a series he edits for Lever Press.
Listen here:
thevideoessay.com/jason-mittel...
May 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Video Essay Podcast returns!
@jmittell.bsky.social joins to discuss his new videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad, the first in a series he edits for Lever Press.
Listen here:
thevideoessay.com/jason-mittel...
@jmittell.bsky.social joins to discuss his new videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad, the first in a series he edits for Lever Press.
Listen here:
thevideoessay.com/jason-mittel...
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New issue of @intransition.bsky.social is here! Issue 11.4 features 10 peer-reviewed video essays on queer spectatorship, vampires, pop music in fanvids, female subjectivity in socialist cinema, unfulfilled love stories, and more. Check them out: intransition.openlib...
January 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New issue of @intransition.bsky.social is here! Issue 11.4 features 10 peer-reviewed video essays on queer spectatorship, vampires, pop music in fanvids, female subjectivity in socialist cinema, unfulfilled love stories, and more. Check them out: intransition.openlib...
The Sight and Sound video essay poll for 2024 is out! My first time voting which was a real honour (thanks to the organisers for inviting me). Something for everyone in here. Enjoy!
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The best video essays of 2024
From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.
www.bfi.org.uk
December 18, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The Sight and Sound video essay poll for 2024 is out! My first time voting which was a real honour (thanks to the organisers for inviting me). Something for everyone in here. Enjoy!
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
A fabulous collection of new video essay work here.
We made a thing! The videographic cluster “The Personal Mediascape in the Age of Videographic Heterotopias” has just gone live over on ASAP/Review. Happy watching and reading! asapjournal.com/cluster/the-...
The Personal Mediascape in the Age of Videographic Heterotopias
ASAP/Review is one of the scholarly publications of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, along with the print publication ASAP/Journal.
asapjournal.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
A fabulous collection of new video essay work here.
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Brand new issue up with 10 video essays!!! Check them out:
intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1295/i...
intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1295/i...
[in]Transition |
Issue: Issue: 4(11) (2024)
intransition.openlibhums.org
December 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Brand new issue up with 10 video essays!!! Check them out:
intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1295/i...
intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1295/i...
Reinstating the office cd player is genuinely the best decision I've made in a long time
December 5, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Reinstating the office cd player is genuinely the best decision I've made in a long time
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Check out @cormacrestrike.bsky.social's “Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth” at SCREENWORKS, a videographic portfolio that questions the extent to which a scholar (the creator) might go before they consider a piece of videographic research to be ‘complete’ www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...
Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth
Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth
Author: Cormac Donnelly Format: Videographic Portfolio Duration: 9′ 58″; 88′ 07″ & 34′ 53″ Published: October 2024
https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/15.1/1
www.screenworks.org.uk
November 29, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Check out @cormacrestrike.bsky.social's “Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth” at SCREENWORKS, a videographic portfolio that questions the extent to which a scholar (the creator) might go before they consider a piece of videographic research to be ‘complete’ www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...
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The reason Hong Kong action films used to be the most kinetic? In the words of the late David Bordwell:
November 28, 2024 at 1:12 PM
The reason Hong Kong action films used to be the most kinetic? In the words of the late David Bordwell:
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On November 28, 1961, Alfonso Cuarón was born. He has directed just eight feature films but often does double duty on his movies. He's won Academy awards as director, producer, editor and cinematographer.
Here's a selection of half o dozen video essays to celebrate his birthday.
🧵📽️ #filmsky
Here's a selection of half o dozen video essays to celebrate his birthday.
🧵📽️ #filmsky
November 28, 2024 at 10:37 AM
On November 28, 1961, Alfonso Cuarón was born. He has directed just eight feature films but often does double duty on his movies. He's won Academy awards as director, producer, editor and cinematographer.
Here's a selection of half o dozen video essays to celebrate his birthday.
🧵📽️ #filmsky
Here's a selection of half o dozen video essays to celebrate his birthday.
🧵📽️ #filmsky