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.

Electric Literature: 'The Tunnel'

Electric Literature: 'The Tunnel'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, Luca DiPierro brings a single sentence from Jenny Offill's "The Tunnel" to life More »

Escape to Venice for a Dreamy 5-Minute Vacation

Escape to Venice for a Dreamy 5-Minute Vacation

Vimeo user FKY's gorgeous cinematography makes for a stunning travel diary of a day in Venice More »

Electric Literature: 'Little Things'

Electric Literature: 'Little Things'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, Vance Reeser brings a single sentence from Matt Sumell's "Little Things" to life More »

Extreme Weather: Episode 2

Extreme Weather: Episode 2

A new web series, Extreme Weather, looks at the weather-related disasters that seem to be plaguing the planet with increasing frequency due to global warming. This episode covers tornadoes in the U.S., flooding in Pakistan, and drought in Africa More »

Isa Leshko's Extraordinary Photographs of Elderly Animals

Isa Leshko's Extraordinary Photographs of Elderly Animals

A short documentary about Isa Leshko, who explores themes of mortality and aging in her gorgeous portraits of aging farm animals More »

Astronaut Plays Solo Game of Zero Gravity Baseball in Space

Astronaut Plays Solo Game of Zero Gravity Baseball in Space

Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa decided to kill some time while stuck on the International Space Station -- by playing a little baseball More »

'Girl Walk // All Day' Ditches Ballet

'Girl Walk // All Day' Ditches Ballet

Chapter one of the dance film Girl Walk // All Day begins with a girl breaking out of the mold of a traditional ballet class to dance her way to New York City More »

Electric Literature: 'The Red Ribbon'

Electric Literature: 'The Red Ribbon'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, Donna K. uses stop motion to create a video inspired by the fiction of Aimee Bender More »

Death to Pennies

Death to Pennies

A snappy YouTube video explains why pennies are bad for the economy and should be discontinued More »

A Gorgeous Time-Lapse of Oregon's Most Spectacular Landscapes

A Gorgeous Time-Lapse of Oregon's Most Spectacular Landscapes

The team behind Finding Oregon spent six months traveling across Oregon, including Mt. Hood, Crater Lake, and the Columbia River Gorge, to shoot over 6,000 images for this video More »

A Crowd-Funded Dance Extravaganza of Epic Proportions

A Crowd-Funded Dance Extravaganza of Epic Proportions

Girl Walk // All Day is a 70-minute testament to the power of remix culture and the joy of dancing like a crazy person in public. Here is the trailer More »

A Beautifully Cinematic Vision of Afghanistan

A Beautifully Cinematic Vision of Afghanistan

This simply gorgeous documentary reveals another side of the culture and landscape of Afghanistan More »

Beautiful Helicam Footage of a Montana Wind Farm

Beautiful Helicam Footage of a Montana Wind Farm

This aerial video of Glacier Wind Farm was shot with a remote control helicopter for a unique perspective More »

Trashy to Classy: B Movies Get a Makeover

Trashy to Classy: B Movies Get a Makeover

Top submissions from the first annual Fake Criterions DVD package design contest More »

Kids Make 3OH!3's 'We Are Young' Music Video

Kids Make 3OH!3's 'We Are Young' Music Video

The pop duo teamed up with actual kids to create their new video during the OMG! Everywhere! music video summer camp More »

Bon Iver's Latest Album Released as a YouTube Video Playlist

Bon Iver's Latest Album Released as a YouTube Video Playlist

The new release of Bon Iver's self-titled album now has a gorgeous YouTube video for each track More »

So You Want to Be a Journalist—70 Years Ago

So You Want to Be a Journalist—70 Years Ago

A career guidance film touts the thrills of working for a newspaper in 1940 More »

A Tilt-Shift Tour of Cannes, France

A Tilt-Shift Tour of Cannes, France

Joerg Daiber's sun-drenched, miniaturized vacation destinations never get old! More »

The Origins of Wind Energy in America

The Origins of Wind Energy in America

The Department of Energy's 1980 documentary, Wind: An Energy Alternative, is a handy overview of the history of wind technology in the U.S. More »

Fancy Cocktails Exploding in Ultra Slow Motion

Fancy Cocktails Exploding in Ultra Slow Motion

A series of alcoholic beverages exploding in slow motion, shot with a Phantom camera at 5,000 frames per second More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Early Monsoon Rains Flood Northern India

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