Jiří Anger
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Jiří Anger
@jirianger.bsky.social
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London
Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism
Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below

https://qmul.academia.edu/JiriAnger
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It’s happening! + @jirianger.bsky.social

CFP for FMH: Feminist Archaeologies of Desktop media is here 🔥

Looking for written articles as well as video essays

Send us your abstracts by October 28, 2025!

🫶 Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity 🫡
July 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
New paper out in Screen on my long-standing fascination with the so-called “bad” Woodstock, the ethics of live multi-camera broadcasting, and the importance of accidental archives.

Special thanks to @tomasjirsa.bsky.social @carobirdsall.bsky.social @veronikahanakova.bsky.social.
Archiving the live music spectacle: Woodstock ’99 and MTV pay-per-view
Disaster! Catastrophe! Trainwreck! The day the music died! That is the official legacy of Woodstock ’99, a music festival held on the 30th anniversary of t
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July 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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With @jirianger.bsky.social ~ The program of MFF 2025 is out! This is the third year that audiovisual essays will be screened on the big screen at the Marienbad Film Festival (from June 12–15).

The first block explores media gestures.
June 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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✨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT✨

The newest issue of MOVIE has just been published, and I’m excited to share that it features our audiovisual essay, A Tale of Two Desktops: The First Czech Films in Parallel Worlds, co-authored with @jirianger.bsky.social and Jiří Žák.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
May 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
@baftss.bsky.social Awards are out!
✨ Cycles of Labour won Best Videographic Criticism @veronikahanakova.bsky.social @m-tremcinsky.bsky.social
🔥 Towards a Film Theory from Below is Runner-Up, Best Monograph
Endless thanks for the support!
April 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Throughout #BAFTSS2025 we'll be screening all of the films nominated for the Practice Awards along with a selection of films from our Outstanding Achievement Award winner, Azza El-Hassan. See the schedule below. A more detailed schedule can be downloaded here: sites.google.com/view/baftss-...
March 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our works have been nominated for the BAFTSS Awards!

👉 Towards a Film Theory from Below: Best Monograph
👉 Cycles of Labour: Best Videographic Criticism
@veronikahanakova.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the nominees, especially
@filmstudiesff.bsky.social

👉 www.baftss.org/awards-2025....
March 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Yesterday evening, @jirianger.bsky.social presented his videographic criticism work (6 audiovisual essays) at ASCA, @uvahumanities.bsky.social, in the Belle van Zuylen room (the woman so prominently pictured).
December 6, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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One of the works @jirianger.bsky.social presented last evening is this wonderful audiovisual essay on Natalia Oreiro which he made together with @veronikahanakova.bsky.social.
Natalia Oreiro. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jiří Anger (National Film Archive) & Veronika Hanáková (Charles University)
This is "Natalia Oreiro. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Jiří Anger (National Film Archive) & Veronika Hanáková (Charles University)"…
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December 6, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Excited that our roundtable "Beyond Electronic Publication: Expanding Venues for Videographic Scholarship" was accepted by #SCMS2025, co-chaired by me and Allison de Fren, featuring @veronikahanakova.bsky.social Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, and @jirianger.bsky.social - hoping for a dynamic conversation!
November 25, 2024 at 10:25 PM
I’m super excited to share that this Friday, I’ll be presenting my book at the University of Amsterdam!

Date: November 29, 2024
Time: 14:30-17:00 hrs (CET)
Location: University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9 (BG1), room 0.16 (eLab)
Online: Teams (Meeting ID: 326 613 010 851, Passcode: pN7X4R)
November 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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💙 My baby is here 💙

ILUMINACE 2/2024 - OPEN ACCESS - TEXTS & AV ESSAYS

What if we stopped asking how computers shape moving images and asked: how is computer iconography represented in audiovisual media?

Dive into the complex portraits of computer labor in film & TV.

See: bit.ly/3YMMG5m
November 18, 2024 at 5:44 PM