Cydnii Wilde Harris (she/her) is a film scholar and video essayist, whose work largely concerns the representations of marginalized communities, particularly the depictions of Black and brown women and femmes in film and television. She holds an M.A. in Cinema Studies from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and a B.A. in English from Spelman College.
Will DiGravio is the host of The Video Essay Podcast and writes the weekly newsletter, Notes on Videographic Criticism. He holds an M.Phil. from the Centre for Film & Screen at the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in Film & Media Culture from Middlebury College.
Before the meeting, check out some of their work below, as well as a few videos that they want to discuss with us:
Will is also sharing a video essay-in-progress that he is working on:
Additionally, you may be interested to see the excellent video essay Will produced for this class in 2017!
We will also discuss Cydnii’s video “The Original Ending”:
As discussed in the podcast, Cydnii and Will collaborated to co-curate the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist. There are dozens of videos on the list – I asked each of them to choose one to discuss with our class. Cydnii selected:
Choose 2 different options for your chosen critical object (film, TV show, webseries, etc.) – if possible, have digital files available or request media to be ripped.
Note that the first set of assignments involves working with a film or television episode that will need to be ripped into a digital file – it’s important that students request this media as soon as possible via this form. In thinking about what text to choose, think about a film / TV program that you find interesting that you want to spend many hours exploring videographically. If you’re not sure, you can request more than one to consider.
If you have not done so already, please install Adobe Creative Cloud on your computer following these instructions (it’s free with your Midd ID!) – please do this by Monday’s class:
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