Beginning with this Spring 2010 edition, Blackbird is featuring a new form of creative nonfiction we’ve chosen to call the video essay. In its intent the video essay is no different from its print counterpart, which for thousands of years has been a means for writers to confront hard questions on the page. The essayist [...]
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Some Notes on the Origin of the Video Essay
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bresland, chris marker, lopate, sans soleil on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Superfluity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnes Varda, Bresland, This American Life, Tom Wolfe, Video Essay on October 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So many fascinating write-ups about Tom Wolfe and This American Life (the made-for-TV version) last week, that I felt compelled to post a few extracts. What many of you noted was how a finished literary text — already compressed and, I think most of us agree, already perfect in its God-given form — can be [...]
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