Credits:
Featuring: Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden
Series Producer: Sam Vladimirsky
Editors: Sam Vladimirsky
Animator: Tricia Cenit
Executive Producer: Sky Dylan-Robbins
Footage: Courtesy of The New Yorker
The Playback is a digital series from the Video Consortium that
takes viewers behind the scenes of their favorite nonfiction
storytelling, from feature documentaries to The Washington Post's viral
TikTok account. Each episode explores a different element of the craft
and new episodes are released every other Thursday.
Sam Vladimirsky
is a filmmaker & artist whose hunger for a good story has taken him
through the underground tunnels beneath the Met, inside the homes of
New Yorker cartoonists, and onto remote farms, developing cities, gun
ranges, catacombs, and costume shops. A New Jersey native, he is an
advocate for the tiny but mighty team, and collaborative storytelling
that is fearless and uncompromising. His work has appeared on PBS,
Vogue, the British Journal of Photography & more. Most recently, he
served as the creative marketing director at the Academy Award®-winning Breakwater Studios. In his previous incarnations, Sam directed documentary shorts for The Billboard Creative, co-taught archaeology at the Dalton School, worked in MoMA’s
photography department, and served on the education team at the Met. He
graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in History and French and
earned an M.A. in Art History from University College London.
