Below is a starter bibliography—limiting myself to ten titles—that straddles the philosophy of film and other disciplines like neuroscience and cognitive science. Colman (2009) and Wartenberg...
https://kino-eye.com/2022/11/05/the-philosophy-of-film-and-beyond-in-ten-titles/
Over spring break I read The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas by Gal Beckerman (Crown, 2022), a new book offering an insightful approach to understanding social change and...
You are cordially invited to attend the first public screening of Farm and Red Moon (2021, 78 minutes), a documentary film by Audrey Kali, and yours truly, on April 21, 2022, at 4:30 pm in the Dw...
https://kino-eye.com/2022/04/11/farm-and-red-moon-screening/
On April 1, 2022, I conducted a panel discussion in my Introduction to Film (Media) Production class asking questions: Are NFTs the key to a creator economy and a democratized art market? Or are ...
There are many guides out there on how to take good notes. The first thing I will say is that choosing the right system comes first, and selecting the software and/or paper tools come second. Imp...
https://kino-eye.com/2022/03/17/a-brief-note-on-note-taking/
This panel discussion took place in the Copyright in the Creative Industries (David Herlihy) and Introduction to Film Production (David Tamés) classes in the College of Arts, Media and Design, N...
https://kino-eye.com/2022/03/10/first-amendment-v-copyright/
Way back in 2010 I posted A one-case lighting kit ready for travel that pretty much was the kit I used for three short documentaries and freelance work. That was eons ago. Fast forward to the pre...
https://kino-eye.com/2021/10/14/one-case-lighting-kit-updated/
In this short film, you’ll visit a unique shop in Shoreditch, London offering artists’ books and serving as a center for individual and institutional collectors, artists, publishers, and the ...
A while ago, I embarked on an adventure of reading and viewing to understand better cinematic and visual metaphors used by media makers. My intuition drove this study that cinematic metaphor prov...
https://kino-eye.com/2020/11/11/notes-on-cinematic-metaphor/
When considering the purchase of a microphone for use in documentary work, I suggest it’s essential to think of the microphone’s equipment ecosystem. A microphone requires a variety of access...
https://kino-eye.com/2020/11/03/got-a-good-windshield-in-your-kit/
I came across the work of Eleven Films looking for fresh examples of remix works to share with my students and I reached out to them to learn about the makers behind their work. Tiffany and Jam...
The institution where I teach asked me to submit a plan over Spring Break how I might transition my courses online. Then last week, we made a move to teaching online for the rest of the semester....
https://kino-eye.com/2020/03/14/video-conferencing-options-for-teachers-during-the-pandemic/
Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies have been around for some time. There’s a substantial body of literature that’s worth reading to develop an understanding of how immersive m...
https://kino-eye.com/2020/02/23/immersive-media-bibliography/
The following storytelling experiences, implemented in 360 video or virtual reality, demonstrate the potential of spatial media storytelling and continue to resonate for me. The affordances of 36...
https://kino-eye.com/2020/01/23/ten-spatial-media-storytelling-works-that-stand-out/
What is an artist manifesto? An artist manifesto (from the Latin manifestus meaning clear, evident) is a declaration of the perspectives, motives, or intentions of an artist or artistic movement....
https://kino-eye.com/2020/01/02/notes-on-the-artist-manifesto/
Here are two books providing perspectives on narrative in both real and virtual space. Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and ...
https://kino-eye.com/2019/01/07/perspectives-on-narrative-in-real-and-virtual-spaces/
Door Into the Dark (Anagram, 2014) premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2014, and I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to experience it at the festival. This is one of the most engaging and ...
I’ve been thinking about the role of narrative in constructing our shared world. With our contemporary epistemological crisis fueled by the rise of Trumpism, the normalization of lies, the spre...
This post is provided as a follow-up to the “Video Clinic” session on February 8, 2018 in support of Bobette Buster’s “8 Minutes and Under” workshop at Northeastern University, Spring ...
When I was in Toronto last weekend I went to Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and saw “At Home with Monstersâ ,” an exhibition presenting Guillermo del Toro’s “cabinet of curiosities.�...
A growing number of non-fiction works are being produced at the intersection of documentary storytelling and journalism and Sheffield Doc/Fest has become one of the best events to experience the...
Journalist Brooke Gladstone’s new book, The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time, is a little gem of a book offering an examination of our notion of reality. She wrote ...
What is binaural recording? What we hear is determined by the way that sound is transmitted around the head, the position of the ears, the shape of the ears, and the shape of our ear canals. Bina...
https://kino-eye.com/2017/03/21/some-notes-on-binaural-recordings/
Chile's long coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, provides the setting for The Pearl Button (2015), Patricio Guzmán poetic visual essay that brings together the voices of the indig...
I’ve been investigating 3-axis gimbal stabilizers for smartphones and have held off purchasing one because I just don’t like how sloppy they feel, there’s a lot of lag in the motion, you pa...