Video(Essays)

A collection of videos ranging from scholarly essays to video art

Steven Sehman Steven Sehman

Plenitude // Haunting // Death

An exploration of the final 3-minute sequence from Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy (2018), framed by Ana María Ochoa Gautier’s writing on silence: silence as plenitude, silence as a haunting, and silence that signifies death.

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Steven Sehman Steven Sehman

Grave // Mandy

A split screen video essay exploration of visual and thematic parallels in Julia Ducournau’s Grave (Raw) (2016), and Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy (2018).

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Side Effects

It takes surprisingly little editing to turn a prescription drug commercial into a dystopian hallucination.

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To Take

An hommage to Hollis Frampton’s Straits of Magellan (Pan 4)

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