Hello. My name is Max Tohline.

I am a film scholar and video essayist turned data analyst whose work focuses primarily on editing and the manipulation of time. But I’m also interested in data-driven approaches to media, as well as recreational mathematics, classical music, amateur rocketry, trying to guess the names of artists in art museums, and really peaty scotch.

I’m best known for the video essay Editing as Punctuation in Film, as well as this Gender and the Periodic Table post on Tumblr, plus some Trolley Problem Memes that forked all over the internet.

I think you’ll really like my feature-length video essay A Supercut of Supercuts and this data-driven article linking historical trends on the IMDb Top 250 to broader ideological shifts.

I used to be online in some of these places: Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube, IMDb, OEIS, ORCID, Tumblr (this one’s a particularly deep well - check out the year-in-review posts: 2016, 2015, 2014, etc)

Oh, and check out my guest spot on the podcast The 250 or Socratic Cinema.

Contact me through one of the platforms above, or drop me a line at my name (no spaces) at gmail.

Have a nice day!