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
https://www.arielavissar.work/
https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
Excited to have my latest videographic experiment published in 16:9: 16-9.dk/2025/10/the-...
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Excited to have my latest videographic experiment published in 16:9: 16-9.dk/2025/10/the-...
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...
Watch all seven wonderful pieces here: vimeo.com/showcase/118...
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...
Watch all seven wonderful pieces here: vimeo.com/showcase/118...
🎬 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...
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
🎬 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...
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...
"Brash, successful Ralph Behr is forced to fulfill a secret contract and marry a rich woman--whom he has met only once--trying to build the greatest project ever constructed in Manhattan"
May 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Brash, successful Ralph Behr is forced to fulfill a secret contract and marry a rich woman--whom he has met only once--trying to build the greatest project ever constructed in Manhattan"
"Cut to Sound" is a group exercise prompt based on a collaborative videographic experiment, exploring the relationship between sounds, images, and words.
See detailed instructions + 3 videos made by 24 participants here: www.arielavissar.work/cut-to-sound
Check them out - and make your own!
See detailed instructions + 3 videos made by 24 participants here: www.arielavissar.work/cut-to-sound
Check them out - and make your own!
April 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"Cut to Sound" is a group exercise prompt based on a collaborative videographic experiment, exploring the relationship between sounds, images, and words.
See detailed instructions + 3 videos made by 24 participants here: www.arielavissar.work/cut-to-sound
Check them out - and make your own!
See detailed instructions + 3 videos made by 24 participants here: www.arielavissar.work/cut-to-sound
Check them out - and make your own!
Exciting news: "𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" is now offered FREE of tuition, with travel stipend!
Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
@colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social
Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
@colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Exciting news: "𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" is now offered FREE of tuition, with travel stipend!
Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
@colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social
Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
@colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social
"𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" application deadline extended to April 7!
For more on this 5-day videographic workshop, organized by @colleenlaird.bsky.social, Matt Payne, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social and myself, visit: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
For more on this 5-day videographic workshop, organized by @colleenlaird.bsky.social, Matt Payne, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social and myself, visit: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
March 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" application deadline extended to April 7!
For more on this 5-day videographic workshop, organized by @colleenlaird.bsky.social, Matt Payne, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social and myself, visit: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
For more on this 5-day videographic workshop, organized by @colleenlaird.bsky.social, Matt Payne, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social and myself, visit: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
Now on Tecmerin, a special horror-themed edition of the Screen Stars Dictionary, with special guest curator Alison Peirse!
This all-female, all-bloody collection includes pieces by Alison, Quan Zhang, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, May Santiago and @filmstudiesff.bsky.social: vimeo.com/showcase/115...
This all-female, all-bloody collection includes pieces by Alison, Quan Zhang, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, May Santiago and @filmstudiesff.bsky.social: vimeo.com/showcase/115...
January 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Now on Tecmerin, a special horror-themed edition of the Screen Stars Dictionary, with special guest curator Alison Peirse!
This all-female, all-bloody collection includes pieces by Alison, Quan Zhang, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, May Santiago and @filmstudiesff.bsky.social: vimeo.com/showcase/115...
This all-female, all-bloody collection includes pieces by Alison, Quan Zhang, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, May Santiago and @filmstudiesff.bsky.social: vimeo.com/showcase/115...
For my Parametric Summer Series, we used "Payne's Constraint", which is all about repetition; my initial plan was to combine, in one video, two iconic Stephen Tobolowsky roles that are all about memory and repetition: Ned Ryerson and Sammy Jankis. I ended up making two videos...
November 26, 2024 at 5:41 PM
For my Parametric Summer Series, we used "Payne's Constraint", which is all about repetition; my initial plan was to combine, in one video, two iconic Stephen Tobolowsky roles that are all about memory and repetition: Ned Ryerson and Sammy Jankis. I ended up making two videos...
Very excited to share the outcome of the 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, an online videographic workshop I organized this summer!
Here 👉 tinyurl.com/ParametricSu... 👈 you can find detailed instructions for the four parametric exercises used in the Series, w/links to Vimeo showcases of the works created.
Here 👉 tinyurl.com/ParametricSu... 👈 you can find detailed instructions for the four parametric exercises used in the Series, w/links to Vimeo showcases of the works created.
November 13, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Very excited to share the outcome of the 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, an online videographic workshop I organized this summer!
Here 👉 tinyurl.com/ParametricSu... 👈 you can find detailed instructions for the four parametric exercises used in the Series, w/links to Vimeo showcases of the works created.
Here 👉 tinyurl.com/ParametricSu... 👈 you can find detailed instructions for the four parametric exercises used in the Series, w/links to Vimeo showcases of the works created.
My own contribution to the AQ special issue was born last summer at a workshop in Bowdoin College; watch it (and read the supporting text) here: journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
A special thank you to @jmittell.bsky.social, Dayna McLeod, Barbara Zecchi, Alan O'Leary, and @filmstudiesff.bsky.social!
A special thank you to @jmittell.bsky.social, Dayna McLeod, Barbara Zecchi, Alan O'Leary, and @filmstudiesff.bsky.social!
September 13, 2024 at 4:10 PM
My own contribution to the AQ special issue was born last summer at a workshop in Bowdoin College; watch it (and read the supporting text) here: journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
A special thank you to @jmittell.bsky.social, Dayna McLeod, Barbara Zecchi, Alan O'Leary, and @filmstudiesff.bsky.social!
A special thank you to @jmittell.bsky.social, Dayna McLeod, Barbara Zecchi, Alan O'Leary, and @filmstudiesff.bsky.social!
Very excited to be included in this amazing, two-part special issue of Academic Quarter on "Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities", edited by Libertad Gills, @filmstudiesff.bsky.social and Alan O'Leary.
Read/watch both parts:
journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
Read/watch both parts:
journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
September 7, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Very excited to be included in this amazing, two-part special issue of Academic Quarter on "Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities", edited by Libertad Gills, @filmstudiesff.bsky.social and Alan O'Leary.
Read/watch both parts:
journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
Read/watch both parts:
journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...
Sight and Sound's annual video essays poll is out, this year featuring 181 unique videos picked by 48 voters (myself included), expertly herded by Irina Trocan, @queline.bsky.social and William Webb!
Dig in here: www.bfi.org.uk/polls/best-v...
Dig in here: www.bfi.org.uk/polls/best-v...
December 19, 2023 at 12:53 PM
Sight and Sound's annual video essays poll is out, this year featuring 181 unique videos picked by 48 voters (myself included), expertly herded by Irina Trocan, @queline.bsky.social and William Webb!
Dig in here: www.bfi.org.uk/polls/best-v...
Dig in here: www.bfi.org.uk/polls/best-v...
Issue 12 of Tecmerin is now up, featuring a curation of recent Screen Stars Dictionary entries by Sureshkumar P. Sekar, Dan O'Brien, Ritika Kaushik and Jialu Zhu, plus and a brand new, commissioned piece on Leonard Bernstein, by Evelyn Kreutzer!
Check it out here: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
Check it out here: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
December 8, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Issue 12 of Tecmerin is now up, featuring a curation of recent Screen Stars Dictionary entries by Sureshkumar P. Sekar, Dan O'Brien, Ritika Kaushik and Jialu Zhu, plus and a brand new, commissioned piece on Leonard Bernstein, by Evelyn Kreutzer!
Check it out here: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
Check it out here: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
Screen Stars Dictionary, entry #18: Gong Li, by Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social: vimeo.com/883000540
November 9, 2023 at 7:16 PM
Screen Stars Dictionary, entry #18: Gong Li, by Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social: vimeo.com/883000540
TV Dictionary - entry #112: The Last of Us, by Niki Radman: vimeo.com/872320747
See also this lovely writeup by Niki for the CST Online Blog: cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
See also this lovely writeup by Niki for the CST Online Blog: cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
November 5, 2023 at 6:52 PM
TV Dictionary - entry #112: The Last of Us, by Niki Radman: vimeo.com/872320747
See also this lovely writeup by Niki for the CST Online Blog: cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
See also this lovely writeup by Niki for the CST Online Blog: cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
TV Dictionary - entry #111: The Avengers, by Wickham Flannagan: vimeo.com/879785164
October 31, 2023 at 2:00 PM
TV Dictionary - entry #111: The Avengers, by Wickham Flannagan: vimeo.com/879785164
Screen Stars Dictionary, entry #17: Shah Rukh Khan, by Ritika Kaushik: vimeo.com/875575478
October 18, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Screen Stars Dictionary, entry #17: Shah Rukh Khan, by Ritika Kaushik: vimeo.com/875575478
Check out the 10th CST Online Blog post on the TV Dictionary, this time written by Lindsay Nelson!
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
October 16, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Check out the 10th CST Online Blog post on the TV Dictionary, this time written by Lindsay Nelson!
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
Screen Stars Dictionary, entry #16: Tony Leung, by Jialu Zhu: vimeo.com/872578801
Check it out - and make your own!
For more on the Screen Stars Dictionary on Tecmerin, including the previous entries and our open call for contributions: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
Check it out - and make your own!
For more on the Screen Stars Dictionary on Tecmerin, including the previous entries and our open call for contributions: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
October 9, 2023 at 4:57 PM
Screen Stars Dictionary, entry #16: Tony Leung, by Jialu Zhu: vimeo.com/872578801
Check it out - and make your own!
For more on the Screen Stars Dictionary on Tecmerin, including the previous entries and our open call for contributions: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
Check it out - and make your own!
For more on the Screen Stars Dictionary on Tecmerin, including the previous entries and our open call for contributions: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
Check out the 9th CST Online Blog post on the TV Dictionary, this time written by Evelyn Kreutzer!
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
October 7, 2023 at 9:12 AM
Check out the 9th CST Online Blog post on the TV Dictionary, this time written by Evelyn Kreutzer!
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
The CST Online blog is back, with the 8th entry in a series of blog posts on the TV Dictionary - this time written by David Martin-Jones; check it out!
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
October 2, 2023 at 10:35 AM
The CST Online blog is back, with the 8th entry in a series of blog posts on the TV Dictionary - this time written by David Martin-Jones; check it out!
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
cstonline.net/tv-dictionar...
"Wes Anderson’s Trains", a wonderful new video from Farzaneh Yazdandoost: vimeo.com/866170709
September 20, 2023 at 6:24 PM
"Wes Anderson’s Trains", a wonderful new video from Farzaneh Yazdandoost: vimeo.com/866170709
Screen Stars Dictionary, entry #15: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, by Sureshkumar P. Sekar: vimeo.com/866339957
Check it out - and make your own!
For more on the Screen Stars Dictionary on Tecmerin, including the previous entries and our open call for contributions: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
Check it out - and make your own!
For more on the Screen Stars Dictionary on Tecmerin, including the previous entries and our open call for contributions: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
September 20, 2023 at 1:26 PM
Screen Stars Dictionary, entry #15: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, by Sureshkumar P. Sekar: vimeo.com/866339957
Check it out - and make your own!
For more on the Screen Stars Dictionary on Tecmerin, including the previous entries and our open call for contributions: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
Check it out - and make your own!
For more on the Screen Stars Dictionary on Tecmerin, including the previous entries and our open call for contributions: tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/scre...
First post!
I'm very excited to be part of this event in Huddersfield next month; I look forward to meeting old friends, and to making new ones :)
I'm very excited to be part of this event in Huddersfield next month; I look forward to meeting old friends, and to making new ones :)
September 20, 2023 at 4:58 AM
First post!
I'm very excited to be part of this event in Huddersfield next month; I look forward to meeting old friends, and to making new ones :)
I'm very excited to be part of this event in Huddersfield next month; I look forward to meeting old friends, and to making new ones :)