Dan O’Brien
I am a lecturer in Film and Digital Media. My research publications span across: Film, Television, Video Gaming, Digital Performance and Video Essaying.
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- 🎬 Double Bill this Saturday 1st Nov at the Electric Palace: The Collector (William Wyler, 1965) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) 🎟️ Discount available for both! 👉 Event info: www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/... 🎟️ Tickets: electricpalace.com/production/2... 📺 Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBP...
- My review for The Thing With Feathers 🪶 theconversation.com/the-thing-wi...
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- Very pleased my video-essay will be part of today’s screening at the Marienbad Film Festival, showing alongside the brilliant work of fellow video essayists and filmmakers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LdHX...
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- Very pleased to be part of this new issue of MAST on Time Machines with some more video-essay work on Time Loops. Many thanks to Michael Goddard, James Burton, and Aleena Chia for your support with this 🕰️➰⏰ www.mast-journal.org/vol-6-no-1-2...
- The Phoenician Scheme: a fun watch even though it’s the same journey in a different vehicle theconversation.com/the-phoenici...
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- Reposted by Dan O’BrienNot quite a comedy, not quite a horror, not quite a musical - film expert @drdanobrien.bsky.social reviews Opus. He explains why this satire about an evil celebrity cult has plenty to say, but what that is remains frustratingly unclear. theconversation.com/opus-clunky-...
- Pleased to have another article published with @uk.theconversation.com on One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest & the role of games within the film. Like Anora, it picked up 5 Oscars at the 48th Academy Awards including best picture, actress & director. This article includes a short video-essay I made:
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- Was pleased to attend another press screening today, this time for A Complete Unknown at Soho Hotel. The plush surroundings certainly did not upstage the film and a very favourable review will follow shortly 🎸🪕
- Incredibly happy to be included in the Sight and Sound poll of best video-essays of 2024. In fact all videos from ILUMINACE: Configuring Computer Labor, put together by @veronikahanakova.bsky.social & @jirianger.bsky.social was. Proud to be in such great company. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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- As it’s Thanksgiving, here’s some of Dylan Baker’s original audition for Owen in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)✈️ 🚋 🚗 Happy Holidays
- Pleased to have received an author copy of this in the post
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- Very pleased to be part of this wonderful publication and congratulations to @veronikahanakova.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social for putting it all together 💾🖥️💿⌨️
- Reposted by Dan O’BrienGladiator II: a wavering thumbs up for a rehashed sequel that can’t escape the ghost of Russell Crowe
- Reposted by Dan O’BrienAre you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!
