“A new video literature is lighting up literary journals,” wrote the editors of Blackbird in 2010. Like other forms of hybrid writing, the video essay had been an “emergent” genre for decades, but it remained slippery to define. Since then, the transition of journals like TriQuarterly Review from print to digital formats have opened up new spaces for literature played on screen. Ten years after John Bresland’s “Introduction to the Video Essay,” what does the genre look like? Join us for a screening of short video essays followed by a discussion of the video essay, its and history and trajectories, with Hannah Bonner of Brink and Joshua Bohnsack and Sarah Minor of TriQuarterly Review.

At PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Proof of vaccination required.
Access via stairs only while we complete accessibility upgrades.

 Videos:

“Situation 7” Claudia Rankine – 5:58
“Pattern for Survival” Kelly Sears – 6:53
“Grandpa” Steven Chen – 5:09
“New Arctic” Allain Daigle – 3:00
“How to Break out of a Mental Institution” Heather Hall – 5:37
“The Lilac Game” Emma Piper-Burket – 4:25
“Pies z glowa”Auden Lincoln-Vogel – 14:54
“Project Hazmatic: Score for Body as Cautionary Tale” Willa Carroll – 14:36