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 »
what came first: the cat or the owl? (shaky thoughts on Sans Soleil)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged lopate, marker, sans soleil on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lopate’s essay answered my first question about Sans Soleil—what came first, the film or the essay? “The filmmaker can shoot, or compile previously shot, footage and then write a text that meditates on the assembled images. This is often Marker’s approach” (267). There goes my easy 100-word response to the essay. I initially found myself [...]
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