This marks my first contribution to the blog in quite some time, but I hope to be posting more regularly in the months to come. As a good starting point to my future pieces I wanted to share a little side-project I worked on recently.
The wonderful Catherine Grant from Film Studies for Free started a fun top ten movies alphabet on Facebook, taking the common viral personal 'top ten' lists and giving it a twist: you are allocated a specific letter from the alphabet from which to choose your films and you should compile a video of your selection. I jumped at the chance to (finally!) experiment with the video-essay format. Here is my contribution with the letter R:
(You can find a better quality version at Vimeo, here: https://vimeo.com/91321656)
The alphabet game has taken shape in the forum of Audiovisualcy: Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies. Take a look at the other entries for the alphabet here at Audiovisualcy's Vimeo page, and follow them on Facebook here.
- K.S.
