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 ...
"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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
There is no cabin in the woods or scary house at the end of the street in “Amour.” There is no ax-wielding Jack Nicholson running around. Yet filmmaker Michael Haneke’s examination of the final days ...
“I wanted to beat most of the memories out of me.” That sentence hits like a stomach punch three paragraphs into Melrose native Rob Azevedo’s essay “Heavy Seven,” published in Farmhouse Magazine. In ...
In ‘Balti,’ starring Shane Nigam, Shanthnu Bhagyaraj, and Preethi Asrani, an unending stream of well-staged action sequences barely keeps afloat a plot sans any novelty ...
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