Made at Middlebury video essay camp (Scholarship in Sound and Image Workshop on Videographic Criticism) June 2022

Epigraph exercise: find a favourite quotation from a critical text that could serve as an epigraph that is not specifically related to your media object, max. 5 sentences. Select a scene from your film and alter it in some way: slow motion, image manipulation, or some other visual or temporal effect. Replace or alter source soundtrack significantly. Show quote on screen in some dynamic interaction with the images in the scene, calling attention to the role of design in videographic typography.

In this exercise, I’m thinking and making about lesbian queer representation from Desert Hearts with a Sara Ahmed quote and a Montreal shout-out via Lesbians on Ecstasy. Thinking too about working with queer sexual and sexualized content for the internet and for non-queer audiences by playing with/obscuring/blocking imagery. I’m using the end Sources credit as a way to further signal lesbian queer context and creation.

Thank you Christian Keathley, Jason Mittell, Will DiGravio, and Ethan Murphy, and the 2022 Middlebury cohort: Colleen, Daniel, Desiree, Laura, Lucy, Nila, Vika, Jeff, Andrew, Pablo, Sadia, Joel, Allison, and Alison!!