PEER-REVIEWED VIDEO ESSAYS
The Fits: A Structure of Feelings | 9:58
[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Studies. Vol. 12, no. 4 (2025).
What alternative knowledge about the expressive and perceptive dimensions of “black” film, viewer, and video essay bodies might videographic criticism provide? This work uses The Fits (2015) to explore this question and the relationship between the material coherence of its filmic components, the manipulation of its audiovisual data, and its preteen protagonist’s body.
The Black Ecstatic | 2:58.
Screenworks. Vol. 15, no. 1 (January 2025). https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/15.1/4.
My video essay The Black Ecstatic uses sound to explore these connections between resilience, belonging, and liberation in Black diasporic communities across time in a scene from McQueen’s musical Lovers Rock.