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

  • What is it good for?

    I sunk about two hours into This War of Mine, and feel I’ve barely scratched the surface. As such, what follows are my very rudimentary…

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  • Gone Girl

    Maybe the point of this bizarre story of small-town America and the darkness beneath, is that there is no resolution, for the narrative or the…

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  • Editing

    Rough cut. Draft cut. Polish. Proof render. Final cut. *crack beer* … Changes arrive. Final cut V2. Final cut V3. Export for web.

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  • Cinemaaaah, cont’d

    I’ve been doing my best to take notes on as many films as I can, but for now I’ll just compile a list of those…

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  • Destiny breaks many indie records

    I’ve been spending the odd hour or two mucking around with Bungie’s latest reasonably small indie game Destiny*. In a combined play time of about 4-5…

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