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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 Radio Spiricom fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Sep 30, 2017 |
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video essays tend to be shorter, exhibited/distributed on home media or social media, use primarily dvd/bd clips as opposed to archival reels or newly acquired footage essay films tend to be feature length, have theatrical exhibition, and are essentially full productions more often than not video essays are made by critics rather than by filmmakers (though the distinction between the two has been in flux at least since the cahiers critics put down their typewriters and picked up cameras in the 50s) i.e. filmmaking-as-criticism performed by critics rather than criticism performed by filmmakers so the rhetoric differs a little stuff like the beaches of agnes, sans soleil, pedro costa's where does your hidden smile lie? or some godard like ici et ailleurs and jlg/jlg i would say fall under essay films, to give some examples godard's tv work sort of throws a wrench in the works for this definition i suppose but they are essentially video essays before we had the term, though i usually consider them essay films because of their length and because they had full production budgets rather than being independent productions. harun farocki and thom andersen sort of split the difference between the two
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