Video Essays – Dayna McLeod

3 white people stand side by side: the first, an older man in a yellow construction vest and white hardhat, the second, a middle-aged woman in a pink shirt with flat pink hair, and the third a middle-aged bald man in a black suit and tie.

FoUBARthes: Death of the Author

A life-sized doll with long blonde hair, a beige dress, and a blue, red, and white scarf tied in a bow, from the film M3GAN

TURN.OFF.

A sculptural figure with its arms outstretched as though ready to fly is behind a window covered in rain.

Real Artificial Intelligence (supercut)

A stack of pastel rectangles that are positioned in an uneven arrangement

Ways of Doing

A layered image of various scenes from Desert Hearts (1985).

Feathered Desert Wipes (video essay exercise)

3 unicorn-people each hold a dripping knife in front of themselves. They are each dressed in sequins against a black and red glitter background.

Queer/ing Horror: Video Essays at the Intersection of Horror and Queerness

Title reads: 'Thelma & Louise: Rape Culture, Mudflaps, and Vaginal Horizons' over Thelma and Louise taking a selfie with a Polaroid camera

Thelma & Louise: Rape Culture, Mudflaps, and Vaginal Horizons (video essay)

a grid of surveillance images of Dayna McLeod sleeping with a purple glowing circle in the middle of the array

watch me sleep (video essay)

A 4-part reflected image of an explosion behind 2 figures in a convertible

screens touching (video essay exercise)

Two people driving in a convertible and the sun is reflecting on the camera lens

landscape cameo (video essay exercise)

Thelma and Louise standing in the moonlight with their backs facing us

interior monologue (video essay exercise)

Thelma and Louise posing for a Polaroid camera outside a house in front of a car from the back

Thelma Louise: ‘every time they touch’ Supercut (vide essay exercise)

Three white men standing with their hands clasped in front of themselves dressed nicely against a blue, pink, and black abstract background.

This is Ourselves: An AI actor lip flap remix

2 white men, 1 bald, the other with thick brown hair and a goatee, in close-up framed in circles with green backgrounds on top of a blue background.

Green screen Template (An increasingly heated & snarky dialogue) with AI

A white woman with blonde hair and glasses shushing someone

Secrets (shh!) (micro video essay)

Dayna McLeod superimposed on the body of one of the characters in Desert Hearts stroking the other main character's face

Speculative Queer Autoethnography: Desert Hearts (video essay)

s/mother love/r

s/mother love/r (video essay)

My Desert Hearts, trailer

My Desert Hearts…(video essay trailer)

Desert Hearts Montreal dreaming (video essay exercise)

Desert Hearts Montreal dreaming (video essay exercise)

Bet on Red

Place your bets on red (video essay exercise)

Caring is Anxious

Anxious Caring (video essay exercise)

Capitalism Machina (AI video essay)

Capitalism Machina (AI video essay)

Nicholas Cage gets punched in the face in Wild at Heart

Wild at Heterosexuality (video essay)

Frame beside frame of Glinda descending in The Wizard of Oz and Wild at Heart

This World is Only Gonna Break Your Heart (video essay)