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, Myles David Jewell of Pennington Productions creates a trailer-like montage of found footage for Colson Whitehead's "The Comedian" More »
Documentary filmmaker Casey Neistat pairs footage of the scene at Zuccotti Park between 1am and 6am on November 15 with Sinatra's "New York, New York" for an ironic twist More »
Kenyan Lewis and Grace Kelsey, vintage collectors and designers in Accord, New York, live in the dreamy world of faded Americana that they also create in their work More »
Remix artist Jonathan McIntosh's classic mashup of the two vampire franchises is a brilliant critique of Twilight's archaic gender roles More »
Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, filmmaker and multimedia artist Martha Colburn brings a single sentence from Diana Wagman's short story "Three-Legged Dog" to life More »
There's something unintentionally hilarious about the hyper-stylized look of food commercials, and Daan Oskam and Frenkel Schonfeld take it to the next level in their music video for Mason's track, "Le Big Bob" More »
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 »
