Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg

Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She curates the Video channel. More

Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg's work in media spans documentary television, advertising, and print. As a producer in the Viewer Created Content division of Al Gore's Current TV, she acquired and produced short documentaries by independent filmmakers around the world. Post-Current, she worked as a producer and strategist at Urgent Content, developing consumer-created and branded nonfiction campaigns for clients including Cisco, Ford, and GOOD Magazine. She studied filmmaking and digital media at Harvard University, where she was co-creator and editor in chief of H BOMB Magazine.

A Stereoscopic Music Video for Mint Julep's 'To the Sea'

A Stereoscopic Music Video for Mint Julep's 'To the Sea'

Rapidly alternating between two similar camera angles, Vivien Weyrauch and Fabian Röttger's video for Mint Julep creates a 3D effect.  More »

An Eerily Beautiful Film Visualizes Energy Use as Massive Blobs of Light

An Eerily Beautiful Film Visualizes Energy Use as Massive Blobs of Light

Light, an experimental film, combines 35mm cinematography and special effects to make a point about energy consumption.  More »

Why Space? A Surreal 1957 Cartoon About Space Exploration

Why Space? A Surreal 1957 Cartoon About Space Exploration

An archival film from the Department of Defense makes the case for space.  More »

Visualizing the Paths of 10,000 Taxi Rides Across Manhattan

Visualizing the Paths of 10,000 Taxi Rides Across Manhattan

Using data from 10,000 taxi trips and the Google Maps API, graduate students at Columbia University created this mesmerizing animation of the transit arteries of New York City.   More »

A Music Video Remix of Classic Sci-Fi Films About A.I.

A Music Video Remix of Classic Sci-Fi Films About A.I.

John Pavlus's video for Jascha Hoffman's "Limited" combines clips from TRON, 2001, Moon, WarGames and Robocop to create a new, impressionistic narrative.  More »

NASA's Documentary About the First American to Orbit Earth

NASA's Documentary About the First American to Orbit Earth

John Glenn and the other astronauts who manned the Friendship 7 mission 50 years ago give a play by play description of the effort, including stunning archival footage. More »

Fauna: Monkeys Love iPhones

Fauna: Monkeys Love iPhones

Mark Rober discovers the secret to getting amazing footage of primates at the zoo -- and all it takes is an iPhone. More »

1930s Hong Kong Revealed in a Vintage Travel Film

1930s Hong Kong Revealed in a Vintage Travel Film

Hong Kong: Gateway to China is rich with amazing footage of the "mountainous and verdant island."  More »

'Inception'-Inspired Floating Roller Coasters in Buenos Aires

'Inception'-Inspired Floating Roller Coasters in Buenos Aires

Inception Park is pure fun, with theme park rides zipping between historic buildings in Buenos Aires, thanks to clever special effects.  More »

This Glow-in-the-Dark Snowboarding Video Will Blow Your Mind

This Glow-in-the-Dark Snowboarding Video Will Blow Your Mind

Jacob Sutton's simply gorgeous video captures a snowboarder on a night run in the French Alps -- in an LED-encrusted snowsuit.  More »

Everything Is a Remix: Part 4

Everything Is a Remix: Part 4

Part four of Everything Is a Remix examines the history and incentives that shaped current intellectual property laws, and how they are blocking, rather than promoting, innovation.  More »

A Video About People Who Fall Out of the Sky for a Living

A Video About People Who Fall Out of the Sky for a Living

An incredible montage of BASE jumping, skydiving, and wingsuit athletes doing their thing, hundreds of feet above stunning landscapes.  More »

The Oldest Cat Video of All Time?

The Oldest Cat Video of All Time?

This 1894 film, one of the earliest produced by Thomas Edison's movie studio, features two cats boxing -- but it's not actually the first recording of a cat in motion. More »

Quantify My Love: Ranking the Neurochemistry of Feelings

Quantify My Love: Ranking the Neurochemistry of Feelings

A filmmaker teams up with a lab at Stanford University to scan subjects' brain activity as they feel love. More »

A Love Story About Getting Tangled Up, Emotionally and Literally

A Love Story About Getting Tangled Up, Emotionally and Literally

Heartstrings is an amazingly expressive short animation about two impossibly cute creatures falling in and out of love. More »

Not for Cynics or Haters: A Montage of Hollywood's Most Romantic Scenes

Not for Cynics or Haters: A Montage of Hollywood's Most Romantic Scenes

Matthew Belinkie packs iconic moments from 95 classic movies into four minutes in How Hollywood Says "I Love You."  More »

A Short Animated Biography of Nikola Tesla

A Short Animated Biography of Nikola Tesla

A three-minute whirlwind tour of the inventor's career, full of fun facts and more than a little disdain for Thomas Edison  More »

The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Animation

The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Animation

Petros Vrellis recreated Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night in openFrameworks, so that viewers can touch and manipulate the swirls of color.  More »

A Hauntingly Beautiful Zombie Love Story

A Hauntingly Beautiful Zombie Love Story

In Rest, an American soldier killed in World War I rises from the grave to go in search of his beloved.  More »

A Short Animated Biography of Thomas Edison

A Short Animated Biography of Thomas Edison

This playful animated short gives an overview of the inventor's life, while pointing out that he might have been more of an exceptional businessman than a creative genius. More »

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