This website gathers together audiovisual and written criticism related to Indy Vinyl, a research project by Ian Garwood investigating the presence of records in American Independent Cinema, 1987 to 2018. The project is conceived as an attempt to produce a research output equivalent to an academic monograph, but incorporating video-based forms of criticism that have been popularised through online film culture (e.g. the supercut, the explanatory video essay, and the bite-sized audiovisual artefacts that are circulated via social media). If you are interested in this project as a piece of scholarship, this is the suggested tracklisting:
- Research Questions
- From ‘Video Essay’ to ‘Video Monograph’?: Indy Vinyl as Academic Book
- Vinyl Noise and Narrative in CD-Era Indiewood
- The L/Song Take in Before Sunrise
- Supercuts
- Indy Vinyl on The Clock (and the clock)
- Indy Vinyl, Interrupted
- Sleevenotes
The website also hosts Indy Vinyl for the Masses, a collaborative video essay project open to all.