By frag_editorial ‘No Videographic Manifesto’ sets out a negative poetics of videographic criticism: what it should not do; what it should not be. Presentation for panel ‘Method, Messiness, and Meaning: Collecting the Fragments of Videographic Process’, organized by Cormac Donnelly (chair), Jemma Saunders, and Will DiGravio. BAFTSS conference, Bournemouth, April 2026.
About the maker
Alan O’Leary is an academic filmmaker and Associate Professor of Film and Media at Aarhus University. He publishes video essays in venues including 16:9 and [in]Transition, which he also co-edits. Men Shouting: A History in 7 Episodes was awarded first prize for videographic criticism in the BAFTSS awards 2024, and his ‘Manifesto for a parametric videographic criticism’ appeared in NECSUS in 2021.
Contact
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ouscholpo
Profile: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/aoleary@cc.au.dk