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A vintage black and white photograph from 1927 on a film set. A man is standing and operating a large, dual-lens motion picture camera mounted on a wooden tripod. Beside him sits a woman, director Lois Weber, looking attentively forward while holding a dark megaphone with "Lois Weber" printed on it in white lettering.

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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An evening street scene featuring the Yara cinema in Havana, Cuba. The theater has a prominent red corrugated facade with "YARA" in bright neon letters above a brightly lit entrance and marquee. A blurred car streaks across the dark foreground street. In the background looms a tall white high-rise building with "habana libre" on the roof, alongside another building adorned with a blue and white abstract mural.

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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A close-up portrait of the musician Lorde looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. Her dark hair is loose, and she is wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt pulled up over her head against a metallic grey background.

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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A film still showing a man in a bright red spacesuit walking through a futuristic, brightly lit white octagonal corridor lined with dark rectangular panels, recognizable from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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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An older video still of a smiling woman with voluminous curly blonde hair wearing a light pink blazer over a mauve blouse, seated at a desk and looking at a piece of paper in her hands.

Annotating Adler: Identity and Embodiment in the Stella Adler Collection

This project by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth contextualizes recently digitized video from the Stella Adler and Harold Clurman Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The eleven digitized videos, provided to the public by The Ransom Center, show Adler teaching at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting between 1969 and 1980 as well as being interviewed by Bob

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A daytime street view of East Austin with cars parked along a road lined with local businesses like "Austin Body Works" and "The Brixton." The downtown Austin skyline, featuring high-rise buildings including the Omni Hotel, rises in the background under a clear blue sky.

RHE 306 Anthology

This is an anthology of AVAnnotate projects developed for RHE 306: Rhetoric and Writing. For this project, students were asked to think about how arguments about gentrification function differently in digital spaces—through sound, image, and voice. Using AVAnnotate, they produced original audio or video compositions paired with annotations and a transcript that examine the rhetorical

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A yellow-tinted still from a silent film showing a young woman with short hair sitting on a wooden chair in a modest bedroom, holding a dark object, possibly a shoe, in her lap.

Lois Weber’s Shoes

This comparison project by Luke Sumpter annotates Lois Weber’s 1916 silent film Shoes. In one of the annotation sets, the first contributor traces the film’s narrative through its use of intertitles to establish a timeline, pathos, dialogue, and its overall exegesis. The second set of annotations traces the film’s editing techniques, which in 1916, were

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A yellow-tinted still from a silent film showing two people lying in bed. The woman in the foreground is awake, clutching her blanket with a fearful expression as she looks up. Hovering ominously over the bed is a large, superimposed, spectral hand and arm with the word "POVERTY" written across it, reaching down toward the sleeping figures.

Comparison Screen for Shoes

This comparison project by Luke Sumpter and Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth showcases two different aspects of formal film analysis, editing and intertitle, within the 1916 silent film Shoes by Lois Weber.

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A vintage, sepia-toned title card for the 1921 film "Camille". On the left, a dramatic scene shows a man kneeling and pressing his face into the dress of a standing woman in front of a large circular backdrop. The text on the right reads "METRO presents NAZIMOVA in Camille," crediting Alexander Dumas, the younger, director Ray C. Smallwood, and screenwriter June Mathis.

Camille (1921): A Case for Annotating Film History

This digital edition by Janet Reinschmidt annotates the 1921 film Camille starring Rudolph Valentino and Alla Nazimova.

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Several flowers of various types and sizes illustrated.

Digital Florilegium

This project is an interdisciplinary study by Luke Sumpter, an undergraduate student at UT Austin, of time in digital media. Sumpter annotates and discusses films by Denis Villeneuve, Derek Jarman, a radio play adaptation of The Glass Menagerie, and a recorded conversation between Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams held at the Harry Ransom Center.

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