"The Bijou Room"

Assoc. Prof. Desirée Garcia has published a new video essay called The Bijou Room, a study of her relationship to the musical film Meet Me in St. Louis. It appears in a special cluster of video essays for ASAP/Journal.

I began this videographic essay with a measure of discomfort. While I attended the "Embodying the Video Essay Workshop" at Bowdoin College in the summer of 2023 with much enthusiasm, the act of making a video essay with an embodied approach to the material was daunting. In my case, I had chosen to work with a film that has personal resonance, Vincente Minnelli's musical, Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). 

Read the full article and watch the video essay at ASAP/Journal.com/personal mediascapes