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, 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 »
An excerpt from a 1984 animated film by the Department of Defense, Man and Safety, talks about the psychological challenges of working in defense More »
NASA's educational film The Earthquake Below contrasts vibrant scenes from San Francisco in 1975 with dramatic footage of the 1971 San Fernando earthquake More »
The U.S. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency embraces the aesthetic of the times in this super stylized, New Age-inspired overview of disaster preparedness from 1972 More »
NASA's wonderfully trippy industrial guide, Laser Safety, includes retro graphics and uncharacteristically groovy music More »
A collection of public safety announcements from 1965 uses puppets to illustrate how to prepare for a nuclear attack More »
Perhaps the most well known public safety film from the Cold War, Duck and Cover shows Bert the turtle teaching children what to do in the event of a nuclear attack More »
YouTube user SaturnApollo has compiled a blooper reel of astronauts tripping over Moon rocks More »
Footage from the November 2 strike in Oakland, in which "black bloc"-style demonstrators vandalize a Whole Foods, only to clash with other protesters advocating nonviolence More »
Electric Literature embraces publishing in the digital age, so it's fitting that their promotional video explores the Internet-friendly theme of shooting stuff with guns More »
A short video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory gives us the scoop on the asteroid that will fly past our planet on November 8, 2011 More »
A rare look inside one of the nondescript buildings that house the major hubs of Internet connectivity More »
This 1950s promotional documentary by Western Union celebrates the telegram's role in American society More »
This infographic documentary about potential solutions to the refugee situation in the Israel-Palestine conflict is the third chapter in The Atlantic's and the S. Daniel Abraham Center's special report, Is Peace Possible? More »
Footage from the massive November 2 protest in which thousands of people flooded into the port of Oakland to shut it down More »
A gorgeous surf video from Rip Curl captures surfing with a multi-camera setup for a Matrix "bullet time" effect that freezes and orbits the surfers in mid air More »
Inside the process of constructing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, with footage of fearless workmen scaling catwalks high above the bay More »
Beginning with an urge just to "make stuff," Joel Bukiewicz started making knives by hand in a Brooklyn studio. As he perfected his craft, his business, Cut Brooklyn, thrived More »
