[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies is the first academic journal of its kind. The open peer-reviewed journal encourages scholars to write using the very materials that constitute their objects of study—moving images and sounds—and publishes work that contributes to both the knowledge of film and media studies and the videographic form. The journal was awarded the 2015 Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship of Distinction by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Established in 2014 as a project of MediaCommons and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (then known as Cinema Journal), as of 2024, [in]Transition is published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and owned by SCMS.
Welcome to [in]Transition’s first issue of 2026, 13.1, featuring seven peer-reviewed videographic works that focus on a wide range of film and moving image studies topics: mediation in video games, a reflection on the relationship between media and philosophy in the age of artificial intelligence, an analysis of data center technical imagery and its relationship to environmental studies, a pedagogical reflection on the work of Catalan documentary filmmaker Joaquim Jordà, an analysis of the use of folk music in the films of the Coen brothers, and an analysis of early cinema aesthetics through the aquatic lens of the fish tank.
Finally, we are excited to publish the inaugural winner of the SCMS Digital Humanities and Videographic Criticism Scholarly Interest Group’s Graduate Student Video Essay Award: Veronika Hanáková’s “The Red Shoes: A Desktop Fairytale.” We would like to thank SIG co-chairs Allison Cooper and Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, Andrea Comiskey, and the review committee for their hard work establishing the award and vetting the submissions.
In addition, we would like to extend a sincere thank you to all of our peer reviewers. We appreciate their hard work and constructive feedback, ensuring that each submission is as strong as it can be. We also eagerly welcome new reviewers; if you are interested in reviewing for our journal, please contact us.
Finally, as always, we also encourage new submissions.
Chiara Grizzaffi, Drew Morton, Alan O'Leary, and Barbara Zecchi, co-editors
Kevin Ferguson and Kathleen Loock, production editors
Jason Mittell, journal manager
Research Articles
A Class with Joaquim Jordà
Nuria Cancela and Samantha da Silva Diefenthaeler
