Other Videos and short films

In addition to The Suggestion Box and the 21X in 201X series, here are some other miscellaneous videos and short experimental films I’ve made:

Here's my presentation of my paper (“Speakers for the Dead: Examining Subalternity and the 'Stolen Gaze' in Documentary Film”), including the Q&A session afterwards, at “Altered States” (the 24th Annual Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium, on 19 February 2022); which was hosted by the Cinema Studies Graduate Student Union; and which was co-sponsored by the University of Toronto, the Cinema Studies Institute, and the Film Studies Association of Canada.

I created this videographic epigraph (incorporating a quote from Laura Mulvey, the 2017 film A GHOST STORY, and other elements including a track from The Mars Volta) in Spring 2021 as part of my seminar work for Dr. Michael Cowan’s class “Film Studies and the Digital Turn,” as a graduate student in the Film Studies PhD program at the University of Iowa.

Here's a presentation of my paper (“‘We’re Bringing These Guys Back to Life’: The Necromantic Ventriloquism of the Cinematic Apparatus”); originally presented at “Spectre” (the 23rd Annual Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium, on 30 January 2021); which was hosted by the Cinema Studies Graduate Student Union; and which was co-sponsored by the University of Toronto, the Cinema Studies Institute, and the Film Studies Association of Canada.

In this video essay, I explore my ambivalence re: the "classical" Western genre; I closely look at the productive ways in which Western iconography has been remixed/revisited in THE MANDALORIAN, EL TOPO, and BLAZING SADDLES; and I reflect on how a faith transition has informed my mixed feelings re: the mythology of the American West. (Final project for a graduate class on epistolary, exilic, and accented filmmaking.)
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A montage of letter-writing in film. Focusing on process and materiality. For a project in a graduate class on epistolary, exilic, and accented filmmaking.

Artifacts (dis)ordered. The inevitability of distortion and recontextualization that comes with time, death, loss, and the temporal/social distribution and diffusing of individual and collective memory. For a project in a graduate class on cinema of the anthropocene.

I used an app called "1 Second Everyday" to piece together a montage of my personal cell phone videos from throughout 2016, and I put them all together.

I put this together back in 2013. At the time, my house had hosted four small concerts and we'd decided to film the last one with better equipment than our phones. The concert was filmed by Laura Smith and Jordan Kartchner, and I edited.

See more videos at www.chriswei.com/videos.