ONCE UPON
A SCREEN
(with Evelyn Kreutzer)
Once Upon a Screen is a collaborative videographic project dedicated to personal explorations of childhood screen memories and traumas. The project was started by Evelyn Kreutzer and myself in 2019.
The first volume of the project consists of 9 video essays that explore personal, traumatic screen memories.
It was published in Fall 2020 as issue 15 of The Cine-Files, and was featured prominently on Sight & Sound's poll for the best video essays of 2020 (and mentioned on the previous year's poll as well).
The second volume consists of 16 video essays that collaboratively explore formative screen memories.
It was published in two instalments of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies;
the first issue was published in December 2022; the second issue was published in February 2023.
Entries from this volume were featured prominently on Sight & Sound's poll for the best video essays of 2022, receiving multiple mentions on the 2023 poll as well.
Watch a recording of a Once Upon a Screen screening and Q&A event at Platform K, Horsens, Denmark, hosted by Alan O'Leary, featuring Evelyn Kreutzer and myself (December 2022):