A thoughtful new video essay digs into an issue a lot of creatives and hobbyists quietly struggle with: how social media ...

"Understood?" There's a new video essay series + short film premiering soon that you might want to take a look at - unveiling soon up in Canada. The Second is the short film that is part of a new ...

Between 2014 and 2016, a YouTube channel called Every Frame a Painting posted 28 video essays critiquing movies and dissecting different aspects of filmmaking before it went silent. Taylor Ramos and ...

"He wanted the movie to be like you were in a vault, and came across Citizen Kane, and next to it was Mank." There's a fascinating video essay out this year to watch called When a Modern Director ...

Youtuber Evan Puschak, better known as Nerdwriter, has long been one of our favorite sources of clear and concise explainer videos about film and tv industries around the world. In his latest post, ...

There’s a slightly unreal feeling to January, as we settle into the new year following the holiday rush. With new movies, shows, and such coming at a slow pace, here are some engaging video essays to ...

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 ...

The best storytellers make the unlikeliest scenes compelling. Tetris is one of the most elegantly simple of video games, but a community has cohered around it that’s remarkably complex, strategizing ...

2024 saw politics, culture, and the overlap between them grow ever stranger, and that’s reflected in our picks for the year’s top video essays. Videos about artificial intelligence, abuses of ...

Is Edgar Wright more at home in the world of video essays than any other working filmmakers? That’s the argument mounted by YouTube user the Nerdwriter, whose new “Scott Pilgrim: Make Your Transitions ...

While we spend a lot of time on this site talking about cinematography and the all-encompassing art of filmmaking itself, we admittedly don’t spend nearly enough time on audio and sound design as it ...