By frag_editorial This very large fragment has sat, unloved, unseen and unfinished on my Vimeo for two years. It marks the most recent dalliance in a long-running love affair with Mackenzie Crook’s ‘Detectorists‘, and was itself an attempt to compile other videographic fragments I’d made on the show into a coherent whole. I wanted the tone and pace to mimic the show, expressing its slow and meditative qualities, whilst discussing how it relates to ideas around land and nation – but, after this long hiatus, I now wonder if this approach is right. Edited on a MacBook Pro, with Adobe Premiere Pro.
About the maker – Dr Richard Langley
I am an Associate Professor in Film and Head of the Department of Film and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. I have been a long-time experimenter with the videographic essay – including in my own Audio-visual PhD (2012) – and an avid supporter of practice-based research, especially sonic screen. I currently run the AV PhD programme at Birmingham, supervising multiple students working in various modalities – documentary, video essay, fiction, screenwriting and more. As an education-focused scholar-practitioner, my research is very much informed by my teaching, and my pedagogy is best articulated here: Video Essays, Documentaries and the Pedagogy in-between.
Contact
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/richardlangley