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The video is part of a larger project dedicated to chronicling environmental collapse through the felt experience of everyday life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613d204ffbd3b117e8e884b9/1631488128783-R1AVD8DOPBCZ16IOXU7C/Kentridge+Sonnets.jpg News - Books Onscreen Conference I’m getting materials ready for a presentation titled “Figure and Frame, Letter and Line” on films, like those of William Kentridge, that turn the pages of a book into frames of a film. The conference is hosted by the University of Leeds and Anglia Ruskin University. This image comes from Kentridge’s visualization of three sonnets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613d204ffbd3b117e8e884b9/1631488868423-D8FMIHWDXMV9E0H8UK6N/wanda.jpg News - Nonfiction Now Conference The topic of this project is creative critical writing and other media forms, with six panelists altogether. I’m looking at all the work around Barbara Loden’s film Wanda, with a video essay… https://www.hollywillis.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2023-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613d204ffbd3b117e8e884b9/bdeb5792-ea0d-4577-ba88-9d99d53fde19/Willis_Holly+2023+Vertical+Small.jpg About - Hello… I teach in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, where I currently co-chair the Media Arts + Practice program and co-direct the AI for Media & Storytelling (AIMS) initiative of the USC Center for Generative AI and Society. My research centers on the edges of cinema, from handmade feminist film practices to the post-image, post-cinematic and posthuman and experiments in digital image capture. My writing spans arts journalism, creative nonfiction and more scholarly forms. I wrote the essays that comprise the catalog Björk Digital, and I am the author of Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts and New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image; I also served as editor for David O. Russell: Interviews and The New Ecology of Things, which collects essays on pervasive computing. 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