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Fellow video essayist Thomas Flight observes videos about popular media receiving more clicks as part of the video essay economy. In 2017, Sight & Sound, the magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI), started an annual polls of the best video essays of the year. The 2021 poll reported that 38% of the essayists whose work received a

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From Kubrick to Ozu, Bresson to Tarantino, Wes Anderson to Hitchcock, and much more, Kogonada's video essays provide comprehensive breakdowns of the formal e

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Video Essay Channel Master List. Here's my personal list, I'll probably be editing this as time passes, but feel free to pm if you're interested in more channels (i have about 50 left lol) Games. Rhystic Studies - Video essays that explore the art, history, and culture of Magic the Gathering 77k subs - The Magic Art of Steven Belledin.

https://www.polygon.com/what-to-watch/23990893/best-video-essays-2023-youtube-vimeo
The best video essays on YouTube came from Hbomberguy, Defunctland, F.D. Signifier and more, explaining race, politics, Barbie, media, and YouTube itself.

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The 2022 video essay retrospective was compiled with the help of 44 voters (from 21 countries) for the 'Best of' or 'Emerging voices' sections. The contributors bring in their expertise as video essayists (several of whom earned nominations in the poll from their peers), film/art critics, film-studies academics (professors, researchers) and festival curators, collectively building a

https://www.polygon.com/22856443/best-video-essays-2021
Despite the homogeny of the creator space being apparent from a cursory glance, 2021 saw POC video essayists gaining momentum on the platform. From behemoths like D'Angelo Wallace to humble

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Knowing that dissecting art is an art in itself, Polygon asked some of the top video essayists working on YouTube today to come together in conversation at the 2020 New York Comic Con Metaverse

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The power of the video essayist. 5 min read time. BY. Filipe Coutinho. September 2, 2021. When YouTube came to prominence in 2005, it was evident that the video-uploading website was going to influence culture in unpredictable ways. Now, 16 years later, its impact is impossible to deny. From launching the careers of many cultural icons, to

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Video analysis essays lack distinguished boundaries since there are countless topics a video essayist can tackle. Most essays, however, begin with a thesis. A thesis is a point, claim, theme, or idea that the rest of the essay is designed to support. A thesis can be general exploring whole genres of art. Other theses can be very specific.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-video-essays-2021
The best video essays of 2021. Introspection and the act of watching emerged as recurring themes across a year in which video makers responded to the realities of a continuing pandemic. Our poll of 30 video essayists, academics, critics and filmmakers highlights 120 recommendations. 18 January 2022. Practices of Viewing (2021)

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New Beverly Cinema — October 2023 by Jeff Smith. Jeff Smith has cut a lot of the New Beverly's monthly previews and to me, they're pure video essays, on a pure pop-level. This one for October, a la Halloween, is especially captivating. Thelma & Louise: Rape Culture, Mudflaps, and Vaginal Horizons by Dayna McLeod.

https://www.thomasflight.com/blog/2018/12/20/18-great-video-essays-from-2018
As a video essayist naturally I watch a lot of essays and try to keep my pulse on the genre, so here are 18 video essays from this year that I think contain something special, introduced me to a new idea, didn't get as many views as they deserved, or are just generally worth your time. This isn't a "best of" list.

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Sometimes the most obvious answer is still the best one. Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou's gorgeous video series Every Frame A Painting is still the benchmark against which all other video essayists

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Make Music Choices That Play Into a Theme. Kevin B. Lee, chief video essayist at Fandor, recently did an interesting experiment on how sound and music play into how video essays are perceived. When creating a video essay on Chantal Akerman's documentary No Home Movie, Lee chose to highlight the film's fragile banality by putting together a composition of the shots which show the quiet

https://www.insidehook.com/internet/video-essay-youtube
Since YouTube launched as a platform in 2005, countless video trends have been birthed and subsequently died on it: daily vlogs, challenge videos, the era of collaborations with every British YouTuber imaginable. "I started my first YouTube channel in like, 2012," video essayist and NYU student Amanda Gordon of the channel amandamaryanna

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22967496/youtube-tiktok-creators
Video essays have been around for about a decade, if not more, on YouTube. There is some debate over how the form preceded the platform; some film scholars believe the video essay was born out of

https://www.reddit.com/r/videoessay/comments/7xbwmy/who_in_your_opinion_are_the_best_video_essayists/
I want to create a list of the best video essayists on the internet and was wondering if you guys could help out. Lindsey Ellis, also known as the Nostalgia Chick. Makes videos on movies, directors, editing, and history of film. Every Frame a Painting: unfortunately no longer active but has great videos on film and editing.

https://www.polygon.com/22202828/best-video-essays-of-2020
1. "In Search of Flat Earth," Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) Dan Olson of Folding Ideas has been a video essayist for years, helping solidify the medium on YouTube. "In Search of Flat Earth

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1. Noah Caldwell-Gervais. Funnily enough, Noah Caldwell-Gervais has been called the "closest thing video games have to Roger Ebert.". He may not have a column in the Chicago Sun-Times, but he certainly puts the "essay" in "video essayist.". Populated with anecdotes and artistic references, Caldwell-Gervais' videos bring a title

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The Listeners + LOS's Video Essay Guide. 2021. Episode 22. The 2020 Sight & Sound Poll + Kevin B. Lee. 2021. Episode 21. The Journeys of Cary Grant. 2020. Episode 20. Nelson Carvajal. 2020. Episode 19. 'Seen & Heard' at Open City Doc Festival. 2020. Episode 18. Cydnii Wilde Harris. 2020. Episode 17. Jason Mittell & Christian Keathley.

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Home of starterpacks! Actual good video essay YouTubers starterpack. Thanks OP. I have now new long vids to watch. Yeah, I respect a guy who is willing to link to a vid that completely disagrees with his point and still praise it. His Fear of Depths video is excellent. I've lost track of how many times I've watched it.

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MIT Video Productions team at the 47th Boston/New England Emmy Awards Ceremony. Front row, left to right: Rod Lindheim, Dawn Morton, Clayton Hainsworth, Mujtaba Jamali, Jean Dunoyer, Alexander Sachs, Christopher Capozzola, and Brigitte Tersek. ... (MechE), was nominated in the Environment/Science and Video Essayist categories. The film

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We all say things in bad taste we later regret, and sadly our Mayor fell victim to that when he jokingly said in a deleted comment about Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo's fiance that he "looks

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Here, the 12 new books you should read in July. The Cliffs, J. Courtney Sullivan (July 2) . A decade ago, best-selling author J. Courtney Sullivan became obsessed with a purple Victorian mansion

https://www.polygon.com/what-to-watch/23500291/best-video-essays-2022-youtube
Deconstructing the Bridge by Total Refusal. This is perhaps the least "essay-like" video on this list. It's more of a university-level lecture, but set in the least academic forum imaginable

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A group of prominent Israelis is urging congressional leaders to revoke the invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress, calling it a "terrible

https://www.polygon.com/22417320/best-video-essays-youtube-history
Dan Olson of Folding Ideas has been creating phenomenal video essays for years. Highlighting "In Search of Flat Earth" as one of the best video essays in 2020 (and, honestly, ever) gives an

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Lives Lived: The literary critic, essayist and author Frederick Crews was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who considered Sigmund Freud a charlatan and psychoanalysis a pseudoscience. He