You love video essays, we love video essays, everyone loves video essays. And why not? There's lot of video essayists out there doing great, illuminating work: Tony Zhou, the folks at IndieWire blog Press Play and Nerdwriter1 (who's recent Wong Kar-Wai video essay is amazing and helps you view the work in a new light or at least maybe one you haven’t considered). Using video context for a visual medium is a no-brainer, but it's time consuming, so generally those who are good at it, like some of the aforementioned folks, put a lot of time, effort and detail into their essays.
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But without question, some video essays can be a little heavy-handed and the worst ones border on pretentiousness and preciousness; the over-enunciated voice-over, making leaps for correlations that aren't really there or suffering from apophenia—debilitating pattern-itis that sees random and...
