TASTER SESSION
Thinking Images: A Short Course in Video Essay Making
From January 2026- March 2026 Queer Extension and the Live Art Development Agency are co-producing a short course on video esssay making.
About the Taster Session:
In this 1-hour free taster session, short course facilitator Dr Darren Elliott-Smith will map out what you can learn from the hybrid short course in January.
Appropriate for artists, researchers, and curators interested in new ways of sharing their work, developing impactful “about you” videos for their websites, strong video applications for commissions and grants, and developing new forms of content online.
About the Short Course:
15 January -26 February 2026 + Live Event at the Live Art Development Agency Saturday 14 March 2026
£120 / £90 concession
This four-week online short coursee explores the innovative practice of video essay creation as a cutting-edge development in film criticism, whereby lovers of film can use the moving image itself to deepen their appreciation and analysis of cinema and the moving image.
The video essay uses digital video editing techniques (known as videographic work) to create a new type of investigation, which offers an extra emotional dimension produced through the blending of words, images and sounds.
The course will be run in a relaxed and informal environment. No prior video editing experience necessary. Students may benefit from having had some knowledge and appreciation of film/media criticism.