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

  • 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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  • Compass points

    I’ve done some nature this week. I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed it. Nature the first was a walk in an inner-city park on Tuesday.…

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  • Rules

    Taking my first steps in the world of programming, I’ve been intrigued to see that many of the overarching rules for ‘best practice’ and the…

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