If you need an inspirational lesson in visual storytelling - start with this video. Lewis Bond has edited and presented an exceptional video essay titled Color in Storytelling (or "Colour" as they ...

Video essays have made criticism more accessible and creative, even as the attention economy pushes them toward formula and excess.

Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...

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 ...

How often are phallic symbols displayed in film? If you think long and hard enough about it, you’d realize that they appear on a regular basis. As the video below demonstrates, penis-shaped symbols ...

Perhaps video essays are like pornography in that, as the saying goes, you know it when you see it. But what distinguishes a video essay from a short film and what are the ground rules for this ...

The New York Times' latest video attempts to show Donald Trump that one must gracefully admit defeat. As the major networks declared a victory for Joe Biden Saturday morning and celebrations erupted ...

For the last few years, video essays have gained more and more prominence on YouTube. With more and more creators choosing a video essay — or video essay-inspired — format, there are video essays ...

"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 ...

To outside observers, it might seem like Hollywood blockbusters are having a practical effects renaissance. Films and series are being marketed by the amount of practical shots they include, often ...