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PRESS MENTIONS AND INVITED TALKS
2023
Jan. 2023 - The best video essays of 2022 (Sight and Sound poll) - selected six video essays to highlight and made one nomination to the emerging voices section. The Essay Library was also mentioned elsewhere in the poll.
2022
Nov. 2022 - Presentation about YouTube video essay viewing and production cultures at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).Jul. 2022 - Fear Street Is Cool, Queer, and Corpse-Filled (feat. KikiKrazed) | Socratic Cinema S6, Ep 2 - a podcast conversation about the Fear Street trilogy and its queer subtext.Mar. 2022 - The video essay boom (Vox | The Goods) - quoted in a piece about long-form video essay content in the age of TikTok.Feb. 2022 - ‘Deja View’ – Comedy: “Saving Face” (2004) - a conversation about my favorite romantic comedy.Jan. 2022 - Sight and Sound's Best Video Essays of 2021 - mentions The Rise of Film TikTok (3x), The Two Worlds of Wolfwalkers, and the ongoing Essay Library Anthology project.
2021
Dec. 2021 - Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore Trilogy - a box set including the exclusive Blu-ray of Wolfwalkers as well as my video essay The Two Worlds of Wolfwalkers as a bonus feature.Oct. 2021 - ‘Deja View’ – Women in Film: “Jennifer’s Body” (2009) - a conversation with Sydney Brumfield for the Deja View podcast.Jul. 2021 - Cinema Rediscovered Festival - spoke on two panels related to Film TikTok: industry-facing and public-facing.Jul. 2021 — Woman with a Movie Camera Summit - "Film TikTok Creators" panel with Pavan Bivigou and Nirupam Dhakal, hosted by Isobel Harrop. Also mentioned in Refinery29.Jun. 2021 — On Your Screen: The Rise of Film TikTok - a podcast interview with Will DiGravio about my video essay.Feb. 2021 — Queline Meadows (kikikrazed/Ithaca College) - student spotlight in Will DiGravio's Notes on Videographic Criticism newsletter.Feb. 2021 — Can Film TikTok Save Film? - mention in Brian Newman's Sub-Genre Media newsletter.
About
Hi! I'm Queline Meadows. I'm a freelance video editor with a degree in Screen Cultures from Ithaca College.I write and edit video essays about film, video games, and other interesting media topics. I produce these for my own YouTube channel, kikikrazed, as well as clients both big and small by commission. To commission a video essay, contact me.You may have seen me quoted on Vox.com talking about video essays, or found my work in physical form on a Blu-ray box set. You can find all these appearances here.I have also organized several video essay projects with The Essay Library.[she/her]
I make video essays under the name kikikrazed. Questions? Commissions? Let's talk! You can reach me at kikikrazed (at) gmail (dot) com.
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Video Essays
NEW: Being Outed at the Oscars is Kinda Funny, Actually
Every video essay I've ever made:
2023
Being Outed at the Oscars is Kinda Funny, Actually (1:24)
The Musical Easter Egg in Everything Everywhere All At Once [5:40]2022
The Exquisite Relay: An Essay Library Co-Construction [17:37] (14-person collaboration)
Why Aren't There More Thanksgiving Movies? [9:36]
BEAST (Commissioned for the BFI In Dreams Are Monsters horror season) [2:59]
The Lesbian Horror Movie from 1942 [5:51]
What Makes Luca's Race Scene So Good? [7:58]
The Invisible Horror of Left 4 Dead [1:22] (Part of an Essay Library project)
Tripping Criticism [3:30] (Commission for Berlin Critics' Week)2021
Adventure Time and the Undead [1:27] (Part of an Essay Library project)
The Two Worlds of Wolfwalkers [16:16]
Esc (Escape) [4:23]
Outer Wilds and the Debris of Time [1:22] (Part of an Essay Library project)
Ready or Not Like Other Girls [6:06]
Beginning at the End [1:18] (Part of an Essay Library project)
Notes on Camp (Rock) [1:51]2020
The Rise of Film TikTok [13:59]
Bumblebee, CGI, and the Rules of Disney Animation [20:34]2019
What Does Insanity Look Like? Psychonauts and German Expressionism [9:41]
Comparative Study: How do animated films adhere to Eisenstein's idea of plasmaticism? [8:45]³