Essays in Sight and Sound — an exhibition of video essays that I am co-curating with Spencer Slovic at Stanford — opens today. The wall text (above) outlines the aims and objectives of the show. Here is a list of the 13 works included:
Explorations of Narrative
On-Again, Off-Again Relationships: A Recurring Theme, 2017
Gita Krishna
Video, 5:33TALLADEGA NIGHTS: A Reinvention of the Tragic Hero, 2017
Robin Fierberg
Video, 5:56Crafting a Cinematic Universe, 2017
Antonio Avalos
Video, 8:37THE LAST OF US: What’s in a Moment?, 2017
Matt Bernstein
Video, 3:52Focus on Color
Minelli Red, 2017
Carlos Valladares
Video, 19:10Character Design in Pixar, 2017
Rogelio Salinas
Video, 5:55Sound, Form, Aesthetics
Sight and Sound Conspire: Monstrous Audio-Vision in James Whale’s FRANKENSTEIN, 2015
Shane Denson
Video, 8:47The Arc Shot, 2017
Sabrina Medler
Video, 5:17LOCK UP: Tonal Dissonance and Homoeroticism, 2017
Francesca Watkins
Video, 10:33Culture, Context, Contour
You Eat with Your Eyes First: Comparing the Eastern and Western “Foodie” Movie Genres, 2017
Rose Adams
Video, 11:05Healing Waters, 2017
Zoe Mhungu
Video, 5:21Flexing Culture, 2017
Eleni Aneziris
Video, 4:46The Animal in the Lake: Ambient Sound in CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR, 2018
Spencer Slovic
Video, 4:30