The Clockwork Penguin

Daniel Binns is a media theorist and filmmaker tinkering with the weird edges of technology, storytelling, and screen culture. He is the author of Material Media-Making in the Digital Age and currently writes about posthuman poetics, glitchy machines, and speculative media worlds.



The Archives

  • The Debrief: that’s a wrap!

    That’s a wrap on The Debrief! Thanks to the incredible cast and crew. Super fun to shoot something that is truly single location, in real-time.…

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  • The Debrief

    Day 1 down.

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  • one day more

    I shared on the weekend that I had been working, and how rare that was (working on the weekend, not working full stop!). I’m now…

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  • Come sail away

    It’s been over a year since I worked on the weekend. Since some pretty severe burnout I’ve had to make sure that weekends and most…

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