Video-essays

In dit video-essay reflecteert Kevin B. Lee op de utopische wereld die in Minari (Lee Isaac Chung, 2020) verbeeld wordt, en contrasteert dat met de Atlanta spa shootings, waarbij 8 mensen – het merendeel van Aziatische komaf – doodgeschoten werden.

In this episode of Remake/Remodel, Leigh Singer breaks down #DavidCronenberg’s iconic 1986 body horror #TheFly and the various ways it differs from the 1958 #VincentPrice sci-fi horror of the same name.

Read the introduction to this video essay on MUBI's Notebook: https://mubi.io/3g6UeKf

Video essay by Eva Elcano Fuentes Selected for "The Video Essay," a section at FILMADRID Festival Internacional de Cine presented in collaboration with MUBI.

"Generated Spaces" by Eva Elcano Fuentes.

The history of CGI animation (computer generated imagery) shows the voice of the computer from different angles. A musicalized language.

The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival.

As part of TCM's From Hollywood to the Heartland programming, in which we highlight a number of films set in small towns all across America, Indiana native and singer-songwriter John Mellencamp reflects on classic Hollywood's portrayals of small-town life in films such as Picnic (1955), Paper Moon (1973), East of Eden (1955) and The Music Man (1962).

In this Video Essay, I take a look at the elements that go into the melodramatic ghost in A Ghost Story (2017) and why it works so well.

Merriam-Webster defines New Wave as “a cinematic movement characterized by improvisation, abstraction, and subjective symbolism that often makes use of experimental photographic techniques.”

Also known as Nouvelle Vague, the New Wave began in France in the 1950s and blossomed there in the ’60s. The roots of the style were in Italian Neorealism, which began during World War II and continued into the postwar years. Britain and Japan offered their own variations on the theme. Overall, the movement had a profound effect upon international cinema.

Take a deep dive look into the technical mastery of the one and only legend of horror John Carpenter. This video essay is by Billie Jean of Video Nasty Presents.

Adam Nayman overviews the two-decade collaboration between director Paul Thomas Anderson and his great friend, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman — from PTA’s feature directorial debut, HARD EIGHT, to the culmination of their work together in THE MASTER (Anderson’s self-proclaimed favourite film that he’s made).

What is the Language of Love? The Cinema Cartography delve in to the deeper emotive and romantic themes of Todd Haynes' Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Dialect coach Erik Singer discusses the art of perfecting accents in film.

Voor hun serie The Thinking Machine creëren filmcritici Adrian Martin en Cristina Álvarez López iedere maand een nieuw video-essay voor de Filmkrant.

Filmwetenschapper Noël Burch uitte in 1979 stevige kritiek op de films uit de jaren vijftig van de Japanse filmmaker Mikio Naruse. Hij zou vastzitten in een “westerse modus van representatie”, en zijn werk zou “academisch” en “overgemonteerd” zijn. Misschien zelfs bijna als de soapseries op TV! Wat Burch niet zag is hoe Naruse een ogenschijnlijk simpele découpage transformeert tot zijn geheime vorm van mise-en-scène, met eindeloze variaties en modulaties. Laten we kijken naar achttien opeenvolgende shots uit Sound of the Mountain (1954)…

"They've gone up the ventilation shaft!" Of course they have. Film characters are constantly climbing up, through and around the bits of buildings where the air's supposed to flow. Air ducts have provided a route in and a refuge for a variety of Hollywood heroes from the likes of Mission: Impossible, Alien, Die Hard and... Garfield. In this video essay filmmaker Luís Azevedo explores how squeezing through the system became a rite of (narrow) passage.

Cinema simply put is the Art of Audio-visual Storytelling; the art of telling stories and expressing ideas through the interplay of sound, performance, cinematography, art direction, and editing. With a strong sense of visual narrative, master filmmakers elevate Cinema to the heights of its artistic possibilities. Discover the power of visual storytelling from a range of STUDIOCANAL classics in this brand new video essay by The Cinema Cartography.