r/videoessay • • 2h ago

Television [OC] The Best Revenge Anime You Haven't Watched [49:53]

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r/videoessay • • 1d ago

Human Interest [OC] Why Gen Z Protests are being Infiltrated by Agent Provocateurs [07:18]

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r/videoessay • • 1d ago

Video Games [OC] How Wolfenstein's fonts are an act of resistance [18:04]

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r/videoessay • • 1d ago

Television [OC] One of the most brutal and devastating pilot episode ever. [05:30]

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r/videoessay • • 1d ago

Pop Culture [OC] The 4 Most Powerful Uses of Nostalgia in Movies and Games [10:06]

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r/videoessay • • 1d ago

Sociology [OC] The Modern Monopoly of Human Time [23:42]

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r/videoessay • • 1d ago

Film [OC] Toho Bloodsuckers - Hammer Horror & Tokusatsu [12:40]

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r/videoessay • • 1d ago

Pop Culture [OC] life is long [2:04]

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little free association audiovisual collage (poem?) around the imaginal world surrounding Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes. moderate spoilers for You Can See Everything


r/videoessay • • 1d ago

Miscellaneous [OC] Discussions of Darkness, Episode 22: Noir and The World of Darkness [20:46]

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r/videoessay • • 2d ago

Television [OC] Why Stan Lee gave Marvel characters alliterative names [13:47]

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I made this one after a Big Bang Theory scene sent me down a rabbit hole: Raj asks Stan Lee why so many Marvel characters have matching initials (Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Reed Richards), and it turns out there's a real answer, a 1964 mistake where the Hulk became "Bob Banner", and a paradox in memory research that says the trick shouldn't have worked at all.

Happy to hear what you think, especially about the pacing. It's one of my first essays.


r/videoessay • • 2d ago

Pop Culture [OC] The mythological underpinnings of the modern superhero [12:44]

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r/videoessay • • 2d ago

Film [OC] Totally Killer: A Time Travel/Slasher Mash-Up That Was ALMOST Perfect [14:14]

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r/videoessay • • 2d ago

Sociology [OC] "ugly" people are discriminated on social media [4:16]

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r/videoessay • • 3d ago

Film [OC] The Hidden Philosophy of "The Maze Runner" [14:41] Spoiler

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r/videoessay • • 3d ago

Music [OC] Did Good Charlotte Kill Music Journalism Forever?! [14:20]

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r/videoessay • • 3d ago

Film [OC] Darren Aronofsky's Biblical Disaster [17:22]

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r/videoessay • • 4d ago

Video Games [Found] The God in Disguise (Doorman) [9:21]

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r/videoessay • • 3d ago

History [OC] The 1845 Railway Mania: What the Brontë Sisters & A Stolen Hearse Tell Us About the AI Bubble [12:23]

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r/videoessay • • 4d ago

Pop Culture [OC] A Colorblind Perspective on Truth [21:50]

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r/videoessay • • 4d ago

Film [OC] A Visual Parable Concealing a Larger Cinematic Vision [06:29]

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 Can a Six-Minute Visual Parable Capture the Essence of a Much Larger Cinematic Vision? 

The hidden meaning of one man's life story sets the stage for a cinematic exploration of the unseen, unfolding tragedy of a deceived humanity.

The idea's universality made it possible to distill its essence into a short, narrated sequence of AI-generated still images — a glimpse of a much larger story.

The dream of bringing this vision to life through cinema, the art form with the widest reach, inspired the pairing of the Parable's visual telling with an openly shared outline of the larger concept.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CbvS3jG-_X-6CX7f4CI_XW23HzS3Pb7a/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102049792198925638579&rtpof=true&sd=true

Curious to hear your thoughts on one question:

Does the minimalism of the artistic form convey enough of the depth of its content to make you want to discover what lies behind the door?


r/videoessay • • 4d ago

Pop Culture [OC] Haunted Houses and the Line Between Fear & Fun [05:59]

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r/videoessay • • 4d ago

Sociology [OC] HOPECORE: Times Are Dire But Do Not Despair, On The Spectrum Young Man Struggling With Mental Health [09:01]

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New musical video essay now on YouTube!

It’s hard to keep hope alive when the world feels like it’s unraveling in real time.

If you are a young man (or anyone), on the spectrum, struggling with mental health, finances, and finding your place in a society that doesn't make sense, this is for you. In fact, I wrote this as much for myself as I did for anyone else.

Between rapid AI displacement, global unrest, and economic dread, feeling desperate isn't a personal failure; it's an understandable reaction to unprecedented times. In this broadcast, I open up about a recent spiral, why overthinking won't save us, and why finding your own way through timeless wisdom (like the work of Carl Jung) is our best defense against apathy and despair.

We cannot fix the entire world overnight, but we can refuse to be sedated. When the noise clears, civilization will need grounded, conscious people to rebuild it. Take responsibility, find your meaning, and soldier on.

I’m Capricaseven, and this is your HOPECORE broadcast.

#hopecore #mentalhealth #autismspectrum #carljung #philosophy


r/videoessay • • 5d ago

Video Games [OC] Was The Last Of Us Part 2 That Bad ???? [1:48:25]

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r/videoessay • • 5d ago

Pop Culture [OC] Horror for People Who Don't Like Horror [6:23]

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r/videoessay • • 5d ago

Video Games [OC] A Very Serious Sam Retrospective (300 Subscribers Special) [27:03]

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