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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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Sep 24, 2017 13:32
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Sans soleil is good, if that counts.
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Sep 24, 2017 13:41
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I liked Los Angeles Plays Itself a bunch
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Sep 24, 2017 15:24
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The huge Story of film: an Odyssey is essentially a narration of the book with 15 hours of video clips and it's pretty great. Also of course Godard's classic histoire du cinema, even though I haven't seen all of it
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Sep 25, 2017 22:54
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Nerdwriter does a lot of good ones.
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Sep 27, 2017 05:47
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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.
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Sep 28, 2017 16:01
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collative learning/rob ager gr8 freaking stuff actually surprised no one has mentioned him
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Sep 29, 2017 13:18
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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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Sep 30, 2017 02:18
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LA plays itself is so fantastic
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Sep 30, 2017 02:21
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Radio Spiricom posted:theres a pretty noticeable distinctions between video essays and essay films (i.e. thom andersen, godard, varda, marker (sometimes)) 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.
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Sep 30, 2017 10:53
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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?
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Sep 30, 2017 11:15
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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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Sep 30, 2017 15:06
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Chris Marker is an inspiration and for my money the best essayist in the history of the medium. Sans Soleil and A Grin without a Cat are the great works but his career is full of little gems like Remembrance of Things to Come and Level Five. If you're looking for films about film, A.K., One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich, and The Last Bolshevik are fantastic.
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Oct 1, 2017 21:05
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Movies With Mikey is some good poo poo y'all
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Nov 26, 2017 17:21
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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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Nov 29, 2017 02:16
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RIP tony zhou: https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc
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Dec 3, 2017 19:01
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Hercules, Disney's Beautiful Hot Mess: a Video Essay
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Dec 8, 2017 21:26
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lindsay ellis is extremely good. on that same note, Kyle Kallgren has one of my favorite channels on yt
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If you're interested by Ron Clements and John Musker's folow-up passion project to this, check out Treasure Planet: Disney's Biggest Mistake. It's a lot more sympathetic to the movie than Lindsay is in her video, but it's an interesting journey nonetheless.
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