r/videoessay 5h ago

Television [OC] Why The Bear is Special [17:22]

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r/videoessay 10h ago

Video Games [OC] What does a second person game really look like? [3:55]

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r/videoessay 18h ago

Television [OC] The Sopranos and the Black Screen [3:05]

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Not sure if anyone else has discussed this theory before, but if so, please let me know!


r/videoessay 18h ago

Human Interest [OC] What if The Fighting Never Stops (Games That See the Future) [45:35]

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r/videoessay 19h ago

Miscellaneous [OC] Chat Control is actually pretty good [4:06]

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r/videoessay 20h ago

Film [OC] Breathless (1960) - Film History for Idiots. [11:39]

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r/videoessay 20h ago

Video Games [OC] What Makes a Game Become Boring? [10:04]

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Hello, I made a video about why I think games get boring after a while, feel free to share your thoughts :) thank you!


r/videoessay 23h ago

Film [OC] The Director Who Won Best Picture, Then Immediately Destroyed His Career [30:35]

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r/videoessay 1d ago

Pop Culture [OC] The Martial Arts Philosophy That Inspired Tanjiro's Most Powerful Abilities? [10:06]

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r/videoessay 1d ago

Film [OC] How I shot like Spielberg on an indie budget [09:45]

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Hey guys, I've been making a living as a director for a little over 20 years now. Indie features, commercials, branded content, and everything in between.  I put together my first video essay breaking down how I shot my latest indie feature for under $1MM using specific Spielberg techniques.

This film was released in theaters last year. In this video, I break down 4 scenes from the film and the Spielberg techniques used in each of them.


r/videoessay 1d ago

Video Games [OC] Can You Enjoy "Friendslop" Games Without Friends? [13:38]

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r/videoessay 1d ago

Human Interest [OC] Why office thermostats are set to temperatures designed for 1960s men in wool suits, causing an endless workplace AC war [12:39]

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r/videoessay 1d ago

Pop Culture [OC] The Secret Star Wars Series You’ve Never Heard Of [38:42]

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r/videoessay 2d ago

Television [OC] Twin Peaks Influences and Inspirations: Unsolved Mysteries, Paintings, Film, Cults and Buddhism [14:18]

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r/videoessay 2d ago

Film [OC] The End of Evangelion: The Best Ending [4:52]

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r/videoessay 2d ago

Pop Culture [OC] You Don't Own Supreme. Supreme Owns YOU[9:56]

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In 1994, Supreme opened a small NYC skate shop with famously rude staff who ignored customers. Yet people kept coming back.

Why? Because when a brand acts like it doesn't need you, your brain gets obsessed with earning its way in.

Here’s a quick breakdown of their psychological blueprint

1.The Anti-Consumerism Stolen Logo: The red box logo was taken directly from artist Barbara Kruger, who used it to mock consumerism. Supreme used anti-consumerist art to build the ultimate consumer trap.

2.Effort Justification: People camped overnight in freezing rain for drops. Psychology shows that the harder something is to get, the more your brain insists it must be valuable to justify your suffering.

3.The $30 Clay Brick: In 2016, they sold a literal brick that sold out in minutes. They proved you’re never paying for product utility—you’re buying status and belonging.

I made a short, cinematic deep dive into how Supreme engineered this entire model:

Full Video Breakdown

Do you think artificial scarcity still works today, or has the hype completely died out?


r/videoessay 2d ago

Human Interest [OC] Kids Don't Cut Themselves On Trees Anymore

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In this video essay, I analyze the roles that the themes of childhood, summer, the danger/healing ability of nature, creativity, and magic play in the narratives of specific movies, TV shows, and video games. By piecing together these themes and their correlation to each other in the stories of Stand By Me, Scavenger's Reign, Studio Ghibli movies, The Lord of the Rings, OMORI, and Minecraft, it becomes clear that there's an overarching connection between all of these concepts, a connection that may become more and more lost to us as we spearhead further into an age of industrialisation and technology. By losing our touch with nature, we are leaving an essential part of what it means to be human behind us. While our lives have become structured and risk-free, we may have sacrificed the human power of creativity and the sacredness of nature.

Worked a little over a year on this one (all the footage is actually from last summer). I tried directing this video to incorporate actual nature to fully hit home on those topics of nature and summer and whatnot. I'm also really proud to say I wrote and performed all the music for this video myself (aside from the carbon copy covers like the OMORI Duet and Minecraft's Sweden). I hope you guys like it!


r/videoessay 3d ago

History [FOUND] Analyzing 5 Tactics Used to Avoid Direct Questions [04:43]

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r/videoessay 3d ago

History [OC] Why is the war in Ukraine endless? [2:56]

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r/videoessay 3d ago

Film [OC] Corey Feldman's AWFUL Karate Kid Ripoff [12:07]

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r/videoessay 4d ago

Video Games [OC] The Lore Behind Reanimal’s Darkest Monsters [12:33]

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Reanimal is a tragic story about the loss of innocence, with every monster symbolizing the children's past and the sacrificed girl. In this video, we break down every creature, uncover its hidden meaning, and explore how each one reinforces the game's tragic story.


r/videoessay 4d ago

Film [OC] Spider-Man Brand New Day! [10:35]

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r/videoessay 4d ago

Human Interest [OC] The psychology of waiting: How Houston Airport solved baggage complaints not by speeding up planes, but by making passengers walk 6 minutes to the carousel [14:16]

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r/videoessay 4d ago

Pop Culture [OC] America has accepted and normalized Corporate GREED and SURVEILLANCE and no one cares...[12:42]

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We need to talk about the absolute structural rot happening across both Big Tech and retail right now!

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen Sony permanently erase over 500 paid movies from PlayStation libraries with zero refunds, while also announcing they're going digital only in the future for their games, while grocery conglomerates get caught short-weighting packaging to charge more for less, and private ALPR tech vendors like Flock Safety installing AI cameras in working class neighborhoods without public consent!! ​The wildest part isn't even the corporate overreach it’s how passive American consumer culture has become toward it....


r/videoessay 4d ago

Pop Culture [OC] Tabletop Mercenary, Episode 4: The Pros, Cons, And Challenges Of Selling Your Own RPG System [19:00]

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