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 ...

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 ...

Over the last decade, long-form video essays have grown in popularity — arguably entering into a boom all their own. Viewers can easily look up a video essay on just about any topic they’d like to, ...

How can cinema be poetic? For video essayist Tony Zhou, it’s when he can “ignore the plot and just appreciate the picture and sound doing something unique.” That’s how he opens his latest episode of ...

"It's a game called, 'Find What's Wrong With This Shot.'" Here is another must watch new video about the current state of the VFX industry in cinema. It's a 20 minute video essay created by Crafthive ...

Movie trailers can be tricky. They can make or break a film months before it hits screens. More often than not, they are rather banal. Over the past two decades, the majority of trailers have fallen ...