Welcome to The Audiovisual Essay project. This REFRAME website serves four main functions, currently:
- As an online repository for the papers, discussions and screening programme of an international conference and workshop on The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory, organised by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López (supported by and Vinzenz Hediger of Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany). These events took place in November 2013 at the Deutsches Filmmuseum – Deutsches Filminstitut, in Frankfurt in partnership with Film and Audiovisual Media at Goethe University. The section of the website where these materials can be accessed — titled The Frankfurt Papers (co-edited by Cristina Álvarez López, Catherine Grant and Adrian Martin) — can be found here.
- As a companion publication to issue 1.3 of the new peer-reviewed journal [in]Transition, A collaboration between MediaCommons and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ official publication, Cinema Journal, [in]Transition is the first peer-reviewed academic periodical specifically given over to videographic film and moving image studies. Issue 1.3 (edited by Catherine Grant), was devoted to a sustained reflection on the practice and theory of the audiovisual essay form, with particular reference to its emerging procedures and uses in film and moving image criticism and research. The table of contents for this section (also edited by Catherine Grant) can be found here.
- As a rolling publication for continuing reflections on the practice and theory of the audiovisual essay. The table of contents for this section (co-edited by Cristina Álvarez López, Catherine Grant, Chiara Grizzaffi, Hoi Lun Law, Adrian Martin, Lara Perski) can be found here.
- And as a place of publication for resources about and guides to making and teaching (about) audiovisual essays. The table of contents for this section (also edited by Catherine Grant) will can be found here.
Catherine Grant,
Producer/Director of the Audiovisual Essay website
Editor of REFRAME
September 2014, Updated March 2015
Co-editors of the Audiovisual Essay website:
Cristina Álvarez López, Catherine Grant, Chiara Grizzaffi, Hoi Lun Law, Adrian Martin, Lara Perski
Editorial Advisory Board for the Audiovisual Essay website:
Michael Chanan, Pam Cook, Ian Garwood, John Hondros, Pasquale Iannone, Christian Keathley, Miklós Kiss, Covadonga G. Lahera, Kevin B. Lee, Carlos Losilla, Richard Misek, Drew Morton, Ruth Novaczek, Miriam Ross, Matthias Stork, Manu Yáñez
Special thanks to Tanya Kant for her great work on the graphic design elements of the Audiovisual Essay website.