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

  • Dunkirk (2017)

    David Cox’s no doubt controversial take on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has spurred me to writing, and not, as you might think, to leap to the film’s…

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  • That’s a wrap!

    That’s a wrap! Words that I’ve not had the utter, utter privilege and luck to utter in what is rapidly approaching six years. We have…

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  • Making

    In a few weeks, I’m making a short film again. My last short was made in 2011, and I feel like I’ve learnt a ton…

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  • Hypnosis

    Like the boy reaching out in Persona … … like Neo, who cannot resist the mirror … … cinema is hypnotic, and we are powerless to…

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  • GoPros and unintentional beauty

    No one ever consciously thinks of GoPro footage, ‘I will make this beautiful.’ I think the whole understanding around GoPros is that if you point it…

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