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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

"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 ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The ending of a film can be a bittersweet ...

It’s very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky’s latest documentary as “Architection,” since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is ...

Global streaming giant Netflix has given a release date to Voir, its “collection of visual essays” about film executive produced by David Fincher. The six-episode series will release on the streamer ...

Cieara Adams walked into the Baltimore Youth Film Arts program this summer hoping to make a film about the city's drug epidemic. But when she was assigned to work on the film project with two of her ...

In 1956, Dorothy Parker said, "I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on." Parker was expressing much of the emotional feeling projected by ...