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discount cathouse
Mar 25, 2009
Since the Format of Video Essays is picking up a lot of momentum on youtube, i'd like a few recommendations for some Classic ones. Which Ones are required viewing?

If you don't know what Video Essays are, Check out Adam Curtis or the yt Channel "every Frame a painting".

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discount cathouse
Mar 25, 2009

Good Canadian Boy posted:

Nerdwriter does a lot of good ones.

I don't like him. He massProduces so much stuff that Most of them are a dude reading Wikipedia articles to you in a condescending tone. He never has an interesting take on anything.

discount cathouse
Mar 25, 2009

Radio Spiricom posted:

theres a pretty noticeable distinctions between video essays and essay films (i.e. thom andersen, godard, varda, marker (sometimes))

in addition to la plays itself and histoire(s) i would recommend thoughts that once we had and six fois deux, 2x50 years of french cinema, france/tour/detour/deux/enfants, ici et ailleurs respectively

i don't know if there are even "classic" video essays yet, although b kite's vertigo variations probably comes closest
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-complete-vertigo-variations

in any case, tag gallagher, kevin b lee, adrian martin/christina alvarez, gina telaroli, nicole brenez, andy rector all do good work e.g.

https://vimeo.com/53775224
https://vimeo.com/29090401

criterion discs have some good ones. off the top of my head the tag gallagher one in the rossellini war trilogy set and the james quandt one in the rossellini/bergman set are good and if i remember correctly the kent jones one on the weekend disc is good and from before he became a parody of himself

this interview where tag gallagher talks about why he prefers doing criticism through visual essays is interesting http://www.kunst-der-vermittlung.de/dossiers/filmgeschichte-gallagher/tag-gallagher-truly-doing-film-criticsm/

extremely pro click https://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2009/07/video-essays-on-films-multiprotagonist.html


please don't watch crap made by youtubers

Thanks, this helps a lot!

Every Frame a painting is better than Standard youtuber Crap though, the guy is a filmmaker and teaches courses in vancouver, so give him a Chance.

discount cathouse
Mar 25, 2009

Radio Spiricom posted:

theres a pretty noticeable distinctions between video essays and essay films (i.e. thom andersen, godard, varda, marker (sometimes))


what are the differences?

discount cathouse
Mar 25, 2009
i watched sans soleil and the fictional letterwriter annoyed me with his backpack tourist observations. i know its intentional but it still rubs me the wrong way.

it looked and sounded great though.

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discount cathouse
Mar 25, 2009
RIP tony zhou:

https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc

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