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 embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, artist Jo Dery brings a single sentence from T Cooper's "The Time Machine" to life More »
Free culture organization Fight for the Future and Kirby Ferguson, the filmmaker behind Everything Is a Remix, have created an elegantly animated explanation of how the entertainment industry's push to stop piracy has far-reaching, and potentially very problematic consequences More »
Aerial footage of Independence Day riots in Poland on November 11, in which anti-fascist groups clashed with nationalists and police More »
Where Do We Go From Here? documents protesters' quiet reflections on the Occupy movement, one month into the occupation of Zuccotti Park More »
Reporter Jared Maslin captured his own arrest on video in the early hours of November 15, while police arrested protesters and cleared Zuccotti Park More »
Video artist Christophe Thockler took 36,000 photographs to create the stop-motion music video for Ben Neill and Mimi Goese's "Cusp." Here's how he did it More »
Christophe Thockler's poetic music video for Mimi Goese and Ben Neill's "Cusp" freezes symbolic objects into blocks of ice that melt over time, captured in 36,000 photographs More »
Marcel, the tiny shell with shoes on, returns in a sequel to the original viral hit More »
Many New York Transit rules must have been broken in the course of filming this skate video in stations and subway cars, but it's an amazing way to tour the city's iconic subway More »
A glittering time-lapse video captures Dubai's futuristic skyline over 24 hours More »
Jody Pendarvis plans to be the first to welcome aliens when they arrive at the 30-foot UFO Welcome Center he built in his backyard in South Carolina More »
With a toy Angry Bird as a good luck charm and a "zero-g indicator," three astronauts blast off from Kazakhstan on November 13, headed for the International Space Station More »
Courtney Welbon memorized Hamlet's famous soliloquy for an AP English quiz by singing it, accompanied by her ukulele More »
Let There Be Light documents the treatment of psychologically traumatized soldiers returning from World War II More »
Stunning footage documents the efforts of the World Wildlife Foundation's Black Rhino Range Expansion Project More »
A beautifully shot behind-the-scenes peek at Chevrolet's skydiving car commercial, by the creators of California Is a Place More »
Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, animator Luca Dipierro brings a single sentence from Lydia Millet's "Sir Henry" to life More »
Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine, like this "trailer" for Jim Shepard's "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You," animated by Jonathan Ashley More »
Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, animator Jonathan Ashley brings a sentence from Michael Cunningham's "Olympia" to life More »
Raw footage from the Berkeley student paper, The Daily Californian, documents violent confrontation between police in riot gear and students on November 9 More »
