Post-Cinema: The Hall of Mirrors

Saturday 11:30
The Chopin House
2024, 12 min., English

Director: Joel Blackledge

Post-cinema has been framed by Francesco Casetti (2015) as both the persistence and transformation of cinema as an idea, through various technological and cultural contexts. This video explores those twin processes with the metaphor of the "mirror routine", assembled in a supercut that both links cinematic “essence” to online media and points to the affordances of videographic methods in post-cinema research.

Joel Blackledge is an AHRC-funded doctoral researcher at Birmingham City University. His research uses video practice to explore the formal and thematic links between cinema and internet memes. His work has appeared in [in]Transition, Vittles, the International Journal of Creative Multimedia, and been shortlisted for a BAFTSS Practice Research Award.

International Film Festival in Marienbad

Post-Cinema: The Hall of Mirrors

Saturday 11:30
The Chopin House
2024, 12 min., English

Director: Joel Blackledge

Post-cinema has been framed by Francesco Casetti (2015) as both the persistence and transformation of cinema as an idea, through various technological and cultural contexts. This video explores those twin processes with the metaphor of the "mirror routine", assembled in a supercut that both links cinematic “essence” to online media and points to the affordances of videographic methods in post-cinema research.

Joel Blackledge is an AHRC-funded doctoral researcher at Birmingham City University. His research uses video practice to explore the formal and thematic links between cinema and internet memes. His work has appeared in [in]Transition, Vittles, the International Journal of Creative Multimedia, and been shortlisted for a BAFTSS Practice Research Award.

International Film Festival in Marienbad

The Marienbad Film Festival is an international film festival focusing on works of an experimental nature, marginal forms of cinema, contemporary moving image, and artistic & challenging films. It creates an opportunity for independent and experimental filmmakers and artists using the moving image to meet, but also aims to make more challenging films accessible to a wider audience.

© 2025 Marienbad Film Festival

The Marienbad Film Festival is an international film festival focusing on works of an experimental nature, marginal forms of cinema, contemporary moving image, and artistic & challenging films. It creates an opportunity for independent and experimental filmmakers and artists using the moving image to meet, but also aims to make more challenging films accessible to a wider audience.

© 2025 Marienbad Film Festival