Humanities Teaching Lab with Dr. Catherine Grant
Video Essay Workshop
Location
Online
Date & Time
October 27, 2023, 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Description
The Joy (and the Power) of Critical Remix in the Humanities Video Essay and Classroom
In this Humanities Teaching Lab, Catherine Grant will introduce participants to the rise of the video essay in humanities education, and in particular - in the disciplines of film, television and screen studies - to the increasingly popular methods of creative-critical research and teaching that involve the compilation and remixing of extracts from the audio-visual works under investigation. She will show several examples of such short-form essays, including her own 2019 video ‘The Haunting of The Headless Woman’ and Cydnii Wilde Harris’s 2018 work ‘Cotton: The Fabric of Genocide.’ Using the online editing platform WeVideo, Grant will show participants how to begin to make such works themselves, introducing them to a range of basic editing techniques using available audiovisual media clips as a model for a classroom exercise or project.
Participants should sign up for WeVideo in advance of the workshop. The platform works best in Chrome.
Biography: Catherine Grant is Honorary Professor at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark, Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, where she was Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies until 2020, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Reading, UK. She was elected a member of the Film, Media and Visual Studies section of Academia Europaea in 2020. She carries out her film and moving image studies research mostly in the form of remix-based video essays. She also runs the Film Studies For Free social media platforms, and is a founding co-editor of the award-winning peer-reviewed journal [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies.
