n addition to his film work, Leacock is a superb essayist who, eschewing the stuffiness often found in theoretical writing for the cinema, presents opinions that are readable, enjoyable, and of tremendous importance for the filmmaker/auteur of today wishing to create in a seemingly very expensive world. We have chosen four essays which, we feel, represent "the essential Leacock". All bear his copyright. They are:
CTI reviews the direct-to-video movie featuring one of the most charismatic and controversial figureheads of the modern Pentecostal movement. From the review: "Rossi, who wrote and directed the 2001 Motion Picture Council Best Documentary winner Saving Si
The original image is titled the "CGI Effect Uncanny Valley", both in reference to the sharp dip over the last few years, and also as a nod to the real "uncanny valley" - the effect that makes robots or animated characters that are clearly not human acceptable to viewers, whereas those that appear almost real appear creepy.
Winner of the 2001 Electronic Literature Award for poetry, Cayley's windsound is a long digital poem in QuickTime format. Poet Heather McHugh was judge of the competition.
S. Ikeda, T. Sato, and N. Yokoya. Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI2003.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on, (July 2003)
S. Eden, A. Livne, O. Shalom, B. Shapira, and D. Jannach. Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, page 99-109. ACM, (July 2022)
M. Taboada, J. Brooke, and M. Stede. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, page 62--70. Stroudsburg, PA, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, (2009)
L. Zhuang, F. Jing, and X. Zhu. CIKM '06: Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, page 43--50. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2006)