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: short film

  • stuff

    A thing from last year.

  • Housebound

  • Making

    In a few weeks, I’m making a short film again.

    My last short was made in 2011, and I feel like I’ve learnt a ton since then, but have struggled to find time to put it into practice.

    It’s something of an irony, given that since my last film, I’ve taught around 350-400 students how to conceive, develop, shoot, and edit their own media projects.

    The script is short, simple; a single location. I’ve been obsessed with single-location drama for some time. In part, because it’s close to theatre, but also because it’s a challenge for the writer, the director, and the cinematographer.

    A lot of ideas are converging on this little film of mine, and I can’t wait to get stuck in.