University of Wisconsin Press @uwiscpress.bsky.social Publisher of books and journals (scholarly, literary, and regional), at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. https://uwpress.wisc.edu. (We are not the UW news/PR office)
Rosa Barba @timeasperspective.bsky.social 
Cineaste Magazine @cineastemagazine.bsky.social America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
https://www.cineaste.com/
Cüneyt Çakırlar @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Visual Culture @ Nottingham Trent University, UK.
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
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
Desirée Garcia @dezigarcia.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dartmouth College- E e! @evaexclamation.bsky.social feed your head.
Em T @emtherese.bsky.social NC mountains. Dogs and cats. LGBTQ+, antiracist, pro democracy. no DMs
Zosia Koptiuch @zosiakoptiuch.bsky.social zosia | 🇵🇱🏳️🌈 | writer & literature student | words in @SANDJournal @popshotmag and others | she/he/they
@iangarwoodfilm.bsky.social @iangarwoodfilm.bsky.social 
Johannes Binotto @sennahojottonib.bsky.social 
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.
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.
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
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
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, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper.
Los Angeles/Texas
https://damorton.wordpress.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
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.
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
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)
Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social Audiovisual thoughts about audiovisual arts. Filmscalpel creates, collects and curates video essays at www.filmscalpel.com
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
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
Queline (kikikrazed) @queline.bsky.social 📺 Video essayist: BFI, GKIDS, youtube.com/@kikikrazed
💬 Community manager: @theessaylibrary.com
💻 kikikrazed.com
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 scholar, CUNY prof, culture writer, editor, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019).
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 🔜 PAX West @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
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
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/
Will Webb @willwebbful.bsky.social Filmmaker, video essayist. Staking out this username.
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
The Essay Library @theessaylibrary.com 📼 Video essay collective making weird and fun collaborative projects: youtube.com/@theessaylibrary
📱 Discord server with 900+ members dedicated to the craft of video essays: theessaylibrary.com
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.
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