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.

Tag: directors

  • Welles and the frame

    The Trial, d. Orson Welles, 1962.
    The Trial, d. Orson Welles, 1962.

    Suffice to say that Orson Welles taught me all I ever needed to know about framing*.

    Happy 100th, old friend.

    * for ‘framing’, read ‘all of cinema’.