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’.

Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular and poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer. She has the ability to judge critically her own ecstasies and grief, and her emotions lose nothing of their force by being recollected in tranquillity.

Marble statue of Sappho on side profile.

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