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

  • This weekend’s planned viewing

    An ambitious list, but here goes… The American (2010), d. Anton Corbijn, the last hour or so. Don Jon (2013), d. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the last…

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  • On Snowpiercer

    In a lot of ways, Snowpiercer is a mere shadow of films like The Road or I Am Legend, in the sense that humanity’s last…

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  • My theory of cinema

    The more I think about it, though, the more intrigued I’m getting about just what my conception of cinema is.

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  • Today I wrote a letter

    It’s been a very long time since I sat down to write a letter. On paper. Without the aid of a spell-check, or the need…

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  • Death to the selfie stick

    Today I had the pleasure of attending the RMIT nonfictionLab‘s symposium on interactive documentary. A great many interesting talks were given, and I’m hoping to…

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