This video was made as part of “One Hundred Movies Walk into a Bar…” – a collaborative videographic workshop organized by Ariel Avissar and Colleen Laird during the summer of 2025. The workshop was conceived as a collective response to The New York Times’ recently-published list, “The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century.” Participants were prompted to treat this list as a generative provocation, inviting critique, remix, reflection, and play. The resulting pieces were diverse in tone and form, ranging from experimental collage to critical commentary, but all emerged through a shared process of communal creation, screenings, feedback sessions, and iterative revision. A selection of these is published here in 16:9, and the entire collection is curated here.
Benedetta Andreasi’s entry, “One Hundred (Lonely) Movies Walk Into a Bar,” engages with the visual form of the list by analysing the shape and choice of the featured images. The work is dedicated to freeing the pictures chosen for The New York Times’ list from their designated frame and place, thus removing them from the article’s scrolling motion and creating new relations between them. Different attempts to rework the visuals of the list are made and the voiceover participates in the pictures’ collective struggle to escape the list.
Facts
16:9 is publishing six selected works form the collaborative videographic workshop “One Hundred Movies Walk into a Bar…” organized by Ariel Avissar and Colleen Laird during the summer of 2025.
“One Hundred (Lonely) Movies Walk Into a Bar” by Benedetta Andreasi (the current one, see above) is the fourth work in this series. Links to the rest will follow, when they get published during the next weeks:
- “See Under: Orient” by Colleen Laird.
- “Parasite and the Ones Below” by Wickham Flannagan.
- “All About Numbers: 100 Films – 11 Women” by Barbara Zecchi.
- “One Hundred (Lonely) Movies Walk Into a Bar” by Benedetta Andreasi (current).
- “Seen, Heard: Language Use in the ‘Best Movies’” by Jeffrey Romero Middents.
- “But What Do They Sound Like?” by Ariel Avissar.
