Video – AVAnnotate

A Finding Aid for GBH Special Collection Promotional Reel

This AVAnnotate project serves as an interactive finding aid for the GBH Archives Special Collection promotional reel, offering viewers a deeper dive into the featured content. By providing detailed annotations for each clip, the project contextualizes the footage and directs users to the full-length programs available in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Designed to […]

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Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities

This AVAnnotate project explores the final annual Sound Institute of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership, Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in Kelowna, in May 2025. Over four days, poets, professors, archivists, artists, librarians, and researchers participated in a “summer camp” of immersive literary-audio activities. During the SpokenWeb Collections Showcase—where each

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The Mike Wallace Interview

This AVAnnotate project, created by Trent Wintermeier, presents several annotated interviews of famous figures, such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Salvador Dalí, from the Mike Wallace interview, held in the Harry Ransom Center collections. The project is designed as a teaching and learning tool to show how instructors can incorporate archival audiovisual material into coursework.

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Enough Said Reading Series

The “Enough Said Reading Series” is an AVAnnotate project by SpokenWeb that provides a digital edition of Montreal spoken-word events from 1994–1996. It features individual event pages (with performer line-ups and open-mic details), compilation reels, and an oral-history interview, along with commentary from recent community “watch parties.” What’s especially interesting is the 2025 watch-party model:

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Literary Sound Studies Anthology: English 483, University of Alberta

“Literary Sound Studies: English 483 Class Anthology” is a student-created AVAnnotate project in collaboration with Sam Turner that compiles course projects into a public anthology. It focuses on how literature is performed and heard, using time-coded annotations to analyze voice, rhythm, silence, and audience in recordings of poems and performances. The variety is striking: students

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Lester Hamlet in Depth

The project was created by Jack Riordan and focuses on the work of Lester Hamlet, the distinguished and influential Cuban filmmaker. Offering bilingual content (English and Spanish), the project explores Hamlet’s poetry, archival materials, and cultural contexts. It presents a richly annotated digital edition of Hamlet’s poems alongside historical documents and interactive commentary, allowing readers

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The Lonely Villa (1909) & Suspense (1913)

This is a project created by Jack Riordan that explores two canonical early-cinema films side by side. Clement introduces viewers to Lois Weber, a pioneering silent film-era director, and contrasts her film Suspense (1913) with D. W. Griffith’s The Lonely Villa (1909), situating both within the “panic room” motif. What’s especially interesting is the close

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Cuba en Pantalla

The project “Cuba en Pantalla” was created by Jack Riordan and draws on his experience taking the “Curso de Cine Cubano” at the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) in the fall of 2019. The project explores Cuban history, identity, and social imaginaries through a curated selection of films spanning from the 1960s

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The Evolution of Lorde

This project by Leiah Bodden traces the artistic development of the New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde through a curated selection of audiovisual materials that include music videos, performances, and interviews. The annotations highlight the evolution of her style, themes, and public persona across her career, moving from the minimalist detachment of Pure Heroine to the emotional

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Auterism

This project by Jack DeVry Riordan explores the theory and topic of Auteurism and some of the filmmakers who best represent it, including filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, and more.

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