Unearthed Entertainment @unearthedent.bsky.social A Show About Things.
https://youtube.com/@unearthedentertainment?si=g35NYKrjGZ8n_Yzl
wren @lvlwon.com Making games. Writing about games. Learning about games. Sometimes even playing games.
www.youtube.com/@lvlwon
Batmanultra7 @batmanultra7.bsky.social I wear many hats. Co-Founder of Prodigy Comics. Writer, evil mastermind, YouTuber, Director, and Comic Book nerd. Let's make art, baby.
YouTube Channel:
https://youtube.com/@batmanultra7?si=DigOYW_qR7HSvzy_
Therapist Plus Gamer @therapistplusgamer.bsky.social Video Game Essayist + Therapist. Exploring how video games make us - and keep us - human. Owner of cats and dog.
Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7tZ_vCGJaV6vVqBckqdSBw
Emmylou @bluemmylou.bsky.social 🎞️✂️, researcher, detective, sleuth
film history, genealogy, newspapers
https://boxd.it/g8Sj + theessaylibrary.com
Kyle the Scott @kylethescott.bsky.social Part Scottish, Part Canadian, Part Coffee, 100% Sarcasm
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOkk9iwTzdN75c4_9FY3t2A
O'Blivion Broadcasting @oblivion-broadcast.bsky.social videos about games, art, and strange feelings (they/them)
Art by @gothydellamorte.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/@OBlivionBroadcasting
James DeLisio @delisioso15.bsky.social Filmmaker, Video Essayist, and Broadcast 🎥✂️ || Joshua 1:9 || Cognitive Science & Film Studies @ UCSD🔱
Sam (Afterthoughts) @afterthoughts.bsky.social Video essayist. Fiction Writer. ❌ AI slop.
Climbing rocks and living in 🚗 with best friend 🐶
(she/her)
SolidArf @solidarf.bsky.social Aaraf Afzal - Writer, professor, video essayist and person taking photographs of NPCs in games. | Contributor at Palette Swap | Bylines at Hard Drive, Los Suelos, Unwinnable Exploits
youtube.com/@SolidArf | instagram.com/npcsofgaming
rachel❌kendra @rachelkendra.com nausicaä of the valley of the dolls 🏳️⚧️
movies, music, and magic the gathering
she/her | rachelkendra.com/linkinbio
Art & Trash @artandtrash.bsky.social Art and Trash, a source for video essays on underground, avant-garde, psychotronic and outsider media. We are searching for surreal encounters in the dusty, subversive and marginal corners of cinema. Hosted by Stephen Broomer.
kev, it is what it is @kevinlferguson.bsky.social by popular demand
Barbara Zecchi @barbarazecchi.bsky.social Film Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts. Cat lady with dogs. Videoessayist trained at Middlebury College. Author of books on women filmmakers. Co-editor of [in]Transition. Member of the Film Academy of Spain. From Venice.
Patricia Gaytán @patriciagaytan.bsky.social Latin American Woman. 🎥 Audiovisual producer, feminist activist and doctoral student in communication and gender. 📚 Experimenting #videoessay as a methodology.
🦋 I believe in justice. 🌱 Ecocentric.
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Internet Couch @internetcouch.bsky.social Sentient furniture with opinions about media. He/him.
I make video essays at https://www.youtube.com/@internetcouch
Ariane Hudelet @arianehudelet.bsky.social Visual culture professor at Université Paris Cité; video essayist & author of written books and articles on TV series, intermediality, etc.
@fprunedasenties.bsky.social @fprunedasenties.bsky.social 
Grumpy dad energy @fdsignifier.bsky.social 
Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social Associate professor Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Academic director ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis), author of Fabricating the Absolute Fake and De muziekfabriek, co-editor of The Richard Dyer Reader. www.absolutefake.com
Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social AV essayist exploring New Media & Digital Culture ~ Media Archaeology ~ Researcher of gimmicky artifacts: from Star Wipe to my latest obsession the DVD ~ Member of Grassroots of Digital Europe ~ Curator for Marienbad Film Festival & Artycok.TV
Jessica Wax-Edwards @waxwards.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow @ University College Cork.
Working on AMLO/Mexico + visual populism in social media, film etc using videographic methods .
HMU to collaborate. 
Evelyn Kreutzer @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social Film/media scholar, video essay maker, feminist
www.evelynkreutzer.com
Postdoc at USI Lugano
Previously at Film University Babelsberg
PhD from Northwestern University
Cüneyt Çakırlar @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Visual Culture @ Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London
Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism
Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below
https://qmul.academia.edu/JiriAnger
Ella Wright @ellwrig.bsky.social Documentary film editor (current: CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN).
Audiovisual PhD candidate researching videographic criticism and the video essay.
Media & Film Technician @ University of Birmingham.
(All views my own).
🏳️🌈
The Arcanist @the-arcanist-yt.bsky.social ~ Cherish the past, without forgetting the future ~
Video-essayist who explores our relationship with fiction and each other through analyzing various media, with a focus on JRPGs and 2000s nostalgia. 
Kelly @prawnricestirfry.bsky.social I make videos sometimes
Questing Refuge @questingrefuge.bsky.social they/them
https://youtube.com/QuestingRefuge is where I sometimes make video essays about disability, autism, parenting, politics or whatever usually looking at media
Nina @zeitgeistmistress.bsky.social Your Wii is not thirsty. It does not want orange juice.
🏳️⚧️ | 29, Pan, Sapphic
Writer, Narrative Designer, Video Essayist & an illusive Gender Outlaw
My video essays live here: https://www.youtube.com/@zeitgeistmistress
TSD Talks @tsdtalks.bsky.social Creator of @kingscreekofficial.bsky.social
I make youtube videos https://www.youtube.com/@TSDTalks22
zutto @zuttoshow.bsky.social Video Maker. Niche Media Enjoyer. Hi Bsky!
http://youtube.com/@zuttoshow
https://letterboxd.com/zuttoshow
https://www.patreon.com/zuttoshow
PFP by @apple-toast.bsky.social
Matt "MML" Lucas @mml.bsky.social Video Producer by day.
Video Essay guy at night.
MML all the time.
Portfolio at http://mattmlucas.com.
He/Him
Viktoria Paranyuk @vikap8.bsky.social film scholar & teacher | video essayist | occasional violinist
Sureshkumar P. Sekar @ursmusically.bsky.social PhD - Royal College of Music, London; MA - Univ. of East Anglia; B. Tech - NIT, Trichy. Researching audience experience, audiovisual culture, video essays.
bit.ly/baahubalive
Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social Film historian and video essayist.
Assistant Professor at University of Warwick.
Previously at Goethe University and University of Chicago.
https://www.ritikakaushik.com/
Desirée Garcia @dezigarcia.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dartmouth College
@drdpo.bsky.social @drdpo.bsky.social 
Peet Gelderblom @peetgelderblom.bsky.social Creative Creature • Filmmaker • Pattern Weaver
WHEN FOREVER DIES • PACT MET DE DUIVEL • BLACK-OUT
https://beacons.ai/peet
directorama.net
James MacDowell @jamesmacdowell.bsky.social Film/media scholar & video essayist at Warwick. The Lesser Feat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelesserfeat6298
Tom Hemingway @tomhemingway.bsky.social Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at University of Warwick. Usually at a gig.
Kevin from Pixel Lit @kevin.pixellitpod.com One half of the @pixelitpod.com Podcast! We read video game novels because the only thing better than playing a game, is reading it. (Citation needed)
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.social Professor, videographic critic and co-editor of [in]Transition, author of Panel to the Screen and After Midnight, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper.
Los Angeles/Texas
https://damorton.wordpress.com/
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Chris Becker @chrisbecker.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre and the Sport, Media, & Culture Minor at University of Notre Dame. Working on a local TV history project: https://sites.nd.edu/boc-project/
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya @nilanjana.bsky.social Teaching professor at a large public university in Arizona. I start more books than I finish and write on music and films. (I also photograph trees.)
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
mesk @meesk.bsky.social TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
Katie Bird @arthousedirectr.bsky.social Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.social American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside
PREPROGRAMMED: HOW ELECTRONIC PRESETS CHANGED MUSIC AND MEDIA, out Sept. ‘26: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/preprogrammed/paper
Social histories of music, sound, technology, & media
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | film, dance, musicals, Jacques Demy, genre, videographic criticism | she/her | maman | author of Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical (Oxford UP, 2024)
Miklós Kiss @mikloskiss.bsky.social Associate Professor of AV Arts & Cognition @rug.nl, author of this http://bit.ly/2SJM29Q, this http://bit.ly/2a4zvaw and this http://bit.ly/3A0KrPG.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9136-8200
Philip Józef Brubaker @bolddecade.bsky.social Essayist/Filmmaker • Master of Ceremonies • Herzog Film School '10 | Fandor | MUBI |tecmerin | [in]Transition | Vague Visages | Substack
https://linktr.ee/philipjozefbrubaker
Johannes Binotto @jbinotto.bsky.social Professional hat wearer, amateur video tinkerer, wild analyst www.transferences.org
Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film LJMU | researching film sound & production
Making video essays & exploring creative practice
Founding editor @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social
Associate Editor @intransition.bsky.social
Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social Asst Professor in perpetuity | researching fandom and popular culture |
RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself | Osaka
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & lit prof, culture writer, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019). Opinions my own.
Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
Stephen Broomer @stephenbroomer.bsky.social filmmaker & writer. video essayist. host of art & trash. publisher, black zero. programmer, ad hoc. sessional lecturer, cinema studies institute, university of toronto. he/him.
Nelson Carvajal @nelsoncarvajal.com 📍Los Angeles ‣ Creator Manager at TikTok ‣ Webby Award winner ‣ Emmy-nominated Producer ‣ Born & raised in Chicago ‣ 📧: nelson.carvajal@tiktok.com ‣ nelsoncarvajal.com
Maike Reinerth @maireinerth.bsky.social Media Studies, Politics, Stuff. Dr. phil. & Angry Mom.
Film/Media scholar currently working on/with film, animation, videographic criticism & green media.
Based in Babelsberg, 🩷 in Hamburg.
Homepage: https://maikereinerth.de/
Photo Credit: S. Reis
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
Shannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.social video editor, Marlin on Oddity Roadshow, cohost of Fight Together on the One Piece Podcast. also the parasocial hell person. based in ATL
Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social contact: christopher at nebula dot tv
Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Pop Detective @popdetective.bsky.social Video essays focusing on the intersections of society, masculinity, politics, and entertainment. Hosted by Jonathan McIntosh
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Jemma Saunders (Penny) @jemsaunders1.bsky.social Film & TV placement person by day, audio-visual PhD student researching Birmingham's representation on screen by night (both UoB). Videographic criticism, documentary, TV, history, locations, employability... and being a Mum.
Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social I am a lecturer in Film and Digital Media. My research publications span across: Film, Television, Video Gaming, Digital Performance and Video Essaying.
https://vimeo.com/user107379730
https://criticalcommons.org/user/DanOB1/media
Jeff Romero Middents @middento.bsky.social "Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul." (James)
"What would it be like, he asked himself, a world where everything was foreign?" (Fouad Laroui)
Sam Close ButNoCigar @butnocigar.bsky.social Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism.
https://www.arielavissar.work/
https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
Chris Sutcliffe @notquitecool.bsky.social I read a lot of Spider-Man comic books.
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@every_spider-man_ever
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/everyspidermanever
Pixel a Day @pixeladay.bsky.social Youtube video essays critically analysing games and how they make us feel (youtube.com/pixeladay). Articles published in Uppercut, Into the Spine, Kritiqal, Gamers With Glasses. She/her. Support: patreon.com/pixeladay
Quimbles @quimbles.bsky.social video essayist, writer, bozo. they/he/she
Writing: https://unwinnable.com/author/quinn-quimby/
Videos: https://youtube.com/quimbles
Pillar of Garbage @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social your fifth favourite video essayist
www.YouTube.com/c/PillarOfGarbage
Will Webb @willwebbful.bsky.social Filmmaker, video essayist. Staking out this username.
Puddle @that5thpuddle.bsky.social Any/all
https://youtube.com/@that5thpuddle?si=6gt0thQZ4vu0ssVa
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/5thpuddle
Patreon: https://patreon.com/That5thPuddle
Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history
critic: Paste, Time, etc.
assistant editor, Cineaste
PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
The Video Essay Podcast
views mine
www.willdigravio.com
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social Audiovisual thoughts about audiovisual arts. Filmscalpel creates, collects and curates video essays at www.filmscalpel.com
harry @videogamesarebad.co.uk http://videogamesarebad.co.uk. Occasional videos. He/Him aro 💚
https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamesAreBad
Florian. @inlandthempire.bsky.social Idiot Doom Spiralling.
They/Them
hotcyder @hotcyder.bsky.social Big Rascal. HOTCYDER on YT. Words at Lost In Cult, Ninty Media. Learning Developer. 🏴
✉ https://hotcyder.carrd.co/
CyberGrapeUK @cybergrapeuk.bsky.social I am Cyber. I am Grape. And that makes me great! || she/they || 24 years old || autistic || no stealing or NFTs please
James Makepeace @kaiafterkai.bsky.social AKA Kai After Kai 🇱🇨
Actor | Writer | Video Essayist | Music Maker.
They/Them.
Composer/Producer/Writer for @kingscreekofficial.bsky.social
WEBSITE: https://jamesmakepeace.carrd.co/
YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@kaiafterkai
Miranda Ketita @nassattack.bsky.social No one of consequence
J. Nicholas Geist @jnicholasgeist.com i cant stop making video essays about a goofy movie
LambHoot @lambhoot.bsky.social Video maker. B.Eng. μαλάκας γροίκστερ 🧿🌋🐑 he/him, en/fr 🍁 https://youtube.com/@LambHoot
Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online web developer, writer, video maker, mad/disabled + audhd, queer, luddite, black innit | they/them | elsewhere: https://olu.online/contact
max teeth @maxteeth.bsky.social i don’t understand movies (they/them)
https://youtube.com/maxteeth