Video Graphic Work by Film Studies Professor Barbara Zecchi Included in British Film Institute's "Best Video Essays of the Year"

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Barbara Zecchi

By Sophia Apteker '23

For a second year in a row, Professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Program and Director of Film Studies Barbara Zecchi's video graphic work was included in the list of "Best Video Essays of the Year" by the prestigious Sight and Sound poll of the British Film Institute. 

It was recognized in four video essays:

  1. Filling (Feeling) the Archival Void: the case of Helena Cortesina’s Flor de España
  2. Empowering the Accent: an (accented) video-essay
  3. Improbable Dialogisms or the Art of Flying
  4. Breaking the Silence and Singing

Of the video essay "Filling (Feeling) the Archival Void: The Case of Helena Cortesina’s Flor de España," the film institute said, "A deeply moving, personal, political, and revelatory work that showcases the potentials of videographic criticism as it relates to the archive. Video essays can not only animate the archive, but attempt to fill, as this video essay does, voids in the archive. A work that charts the way forward for what video essays can do and be.A deeply moving, personal, political, and revelatory work that showcases the potentials of videographic criticism as it relates to the archive. Video essays can not only animate the archive, but attempt to fill, as this video essay does, voids in the archive. A work that charts the way forward for what video essays can do and be."

For more information, visit https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-video-essays-2022.

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