How does Fincher make his movies look so good? Find out more in this video! StudioBinder has posted an entrancing video essay about David Fincher and the way he utilizes colors in his movies. It's ...

Over the last decade, long-form video essays have grown in popularity — arguably entering into a boom all their own. Viewers can easily look up a video essay on just about any topic they’d like to, ...

Polygon’s latest series, The Masterpieces of Streaming, looks at the new batch of classics that have emerged from an evolving era of entertainment. Like every medium before it, “video essays” on ...

"Matinee is almost like a thesis on the way that we turn to movies to process on our fears, and about the value of even the junkiest of schlock." Have you seen this movie? If you haven't yet, and ...

In Stilleben, Harun Farocki’s 1995 essay film (or film essay), we see a comparison between still-life paintings from the 17th-century and current commercial advertisements. The film aims to explore ...

Still from “What You ACTUALLY Need to Make Clothes in an Apocalypse” by Bernadette Banner (screenshot by Dan Schindel) For this edition of Hyperallergic’s video essay column, we’re doing something a ...

The term “video essay” has a myriad of associations: once synonymous with the documentary film genre also known as the “essay film,” the phrase increasingly refers more broadly to the creative and ...

“Video essays are a form that has lent itself particularly well to pop culture because of its analytical nature,” Madeline Buxton, the culture and trends manager at YouTube, told me. “We are starting ...

This image is the thumbnail for The Leftist Cooks’ “This is Not a Video Essay.” What is art? What is an essay? How are the creation and the criticism categorized? When does analysis become an art form ...