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Film and art

Video essays on directing, editing and storytelling, plus short introductions to art history.

19 entries, about 10 hours of single videos. Bloom scroll this shelf

19 entries
1 h 1 min An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the RingsFolding Ideas

Olson at Folding Ideas is comfortably my favorite guy on the platform currently, and his work in the last two years has mostly focussed on wackadoo financial-industry scam cults (or WoW), but he's also done great videos about Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings film, the Fifty Shades trilogy, and…

Recommended in r/blankies

18 min How Star Wars was saved in the editRocketJump

…the History of Cinema and I struggle with these questions as well. Go take a look at some of the good video essays. Ahoy (Quake 1 essay amongst others): FilmmakerIQ (History of green sreen ... amongst others): Rocket Jump (How Star Wars was Saved in the Edit): What make those great? content.…

Mentioned in r/VideoEditing

7 min Werner Herzog and The Ecstatic TruthHaven Of Singles

Singles : Another channel new on the scene, and what it lacks in polish compared to some of the other channels, it makes up for with some really unique and interesting videos. They are more interested in the potential of genre through analysing filmmaking techniques than actual filmmakers.…

Recommended in r/movies

1 h 7 min RetroAhoy: QuakeAhoy

…working on a Video Essay on the History of Cinema and I struggle with these questions as well. Go take a look at some of the good video essays. Ahoy (Quake 1 essay amongst others): FilmmakerIQ (History of green sreen ... amongst others): Rocket Jump (How Star Wars was Saved in the Edit): [

Mentioned in r/VideoEditing

5 min Ma: Miyazaki's CalmGlowing Screens

Check out this video on Bergman's framing Glowing Screens: Another newbie on the scene, he's very much in the style of Nerdwriter but he's finding his voice fast. His video on the danger of American Sniper's patriotism is great, but I'd personally recommend checking out his video on Miyazaki's films

Recommended in r/movies

42 min The Art of Editing and The Snowman | Folding IdeasFolding Ideas

…and his work in the last two years has mostly focussed on wackadoo financial-industry scam cults (or WoW), but he's also done great videos about Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings film, the Fifty Shades trilogy, and the utter fuckery that was The Snowman.

Recommended in r/blankies

9 min Why You Don't Like Art HistoryThe Art Assignment

1 ! Sarah Urist Green is a former curator for the Indianapolis Museum of Art. However, she is also very invested in making art history interesting for regular people. She even has a video about why you hate art history

Mentioned in r/ArtHistory

1 h 58 min ROBLOX_OOF.mp3hbomberguy

…tommy tallerico video, this is prolly the best video essay ever made, it's worth hitting a few blinkers to and just getting absorbed for 2 hours

Recommended in r/youtube

Questions about film and art videos

Where should I start with film and art videos?

The entries on this shelf that came up in the most Reddit threads are Expressionism in 8 Minutes: The Most Disturbing Art Ever? 😱 (8 min), Professional Wrestling is Stupid and Beautiful and I Love it (30 min) and An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings (1 h 1 min).

Are there short film and art videos?

Yes. 7 run under 15 minutes, including Expressionism in 8 Minutes: The Most Disturbing Art Ever? 😱 (8 min) and Werner Herzog and The Ecstatic Truth (7 min).

Where on Reddit were these film and art videos shared?

Most came up in r/movies (8), r/VideoEditing (4) and r/blankies (3). A mention can be a recommendation, a question or an argument, and each video’s page says which it was.

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