"Films don't need to have grandiose visual production to have pertinent and strong imagery." While film is a visual medium, there's more to cinema than just pointing a camera at actors. Here's another ...

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 ...

We write a lot about video essays. A lot. As fans of pop culture, it can be fun for us to see someone take a deep, obsessive dive into a film, TV show, pop culture trend, or genre. But, what if video ...

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 ...

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, ...

"He specializes in child characters who don't live carefree lives," says the narrator. A new video essay by Fandor, titled “The Childhood Whimsy of Wes Anderson,” explores how the filmmaker presents ...