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: seamless cinema

  • Inhuman Screens

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    I am thrilled to announce that I’ve been invited to present at the inauguralĀ Inhuman Screens conference, convened in conjunction with Sydney Underground Film Festival.

    I’ll be presenting my research on drones and cinematography. This work considers the embodied experience of flying a drone, and some of the philosophical/existential questions that experience raises, as well as how drone shots might be brought into the language of film distinctly from other aerial footage.

    All speakers, keynotes and primary stream, comprise many of my film theory faves, so I look forward mostly to getting my presentation over and done with, and simply basking in the awesome to follow.

    Tickets available at the Inhuman Screens website.

  • Hypnosis

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    Like the boy reaching out inĀ Persona …

    … like Neo, who cannot resist the mirror …

    … cinema is hypnotic, and we are powerless to its mechanisms.