What makes a video essay great? by Kevin B Lee

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/the-best-video-essays-of-2014

How to be alone- video essay with animation

Insert shots in Zodiac

'Zodiac' and the art of the insert shot from Josh Forrest on Vimeo.

NOTES ON DIRECTORS

HERE ARE MORE GOODIES TO READ
The 40 best directors in the Guardian UK How many of these are men versus women? White versus black? Is this selection biased? what do you think?

Black Filmmakers: Through the Years--  article with images

Article (is this a reliable source?)
Why are top movie directors defecting to television? Anton CORBIJN: Directed many rock music videos in 80s and 90s


Zorn's Lemma - experimental
The Dot and the Line - emotional, structural, narrative, voice over

Long story short
video online memes DAD LIfe

martha colburn - animation, emotional

james t hong, the form of the good - structural, experimental

abigail child mayhem  structural, experimental, graphic 

mirror world 

Abolition of Work from Naoki Izumo on Vimeo
Melancholy by Naoki Izumo

http://www.freud.org.uk/education/topic/10576/subtopic/40030/

FREUD

animal charm  remix

martin arnold  structural, found footage

wago kreider

Dial History by Johan Grimonprez

Bryan Boyce

state of the union http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZ6vZAToi4

phil patiris

norman mcklaren

oliver laric, 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5OwM5zA-cQ

http://oliverlaric.com/messagethe.htm

shelly silver

http://artfem.tv/id;24/action;showpage/page_type;video/page_id;37_Stories_about_Leaving_Home_Excerpt_by_Shelly_Silver_flv/

work by 

article

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/recycle-it-20080710

Video handout information

http://occupysimedia.blogspot.com/p/expectations-make-short-video-that-uses.html

http://www.remixthebook.com/the-course/collagereadymadescombines

The Abolition of Work by Naoki Izumo



 Run Lola Run


Acid Brass by Jeremy Deller

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS (PORTRAITS)

Reassembly from Naoki Izumo on Vimeo.

Etherton Switch (RTD production)

FIVE/FIVE from chris jurchak on Vimeo.
FIVE/FIVE

McAndrew Stadium by Sabrina Stimpfl

McAndrew Stadium: Soon it will be history (RTD production)

Inocente: (Oscar winner)

Handmade Portraits: Chain Reaction:

House of Elegance. Made by students at the University of Texas, Austin

Sugar Coated (fashion)

Yuck:

Sydney

Project Play Me:

Columbia Speaks: A short documentary about student Debt

(this is interesting in terms of ideas- but what do you think of the camera work?)

Default 

(same topic, better camera)

to watch: trailer, Long Story Short

This one is more of a journalistic style.

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Video Archive

student work- factory life

this is a piece made by students in california. they showed how the work of machines of a factory are similar to the repetition of daily life

Homage videos

George Lucas in Love

How To Make A David Lynch Film by McClean from Ginger Beard on Vimeo.
How to make a David Lynch Film

DAD LIFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOKuSQIJlog
to go with practices of looking

Animated stills- sunrise over tianamen square

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square by Shui-Bo Wang, National Film Board of Canada

There is some sex and violence in this animated film.

Patrick Dean's Kappa

Vanderbeek- experimental animation -

Dog's dialogue- a movie made mostly from stills

Colloque de chiens (Raoul Ruiz, 1977, KINOTE) from jeanne dielman on Vimeo.

Videos by Dan Shick

thanks Dan for the links- great use of framing and sight gags


Frog Interrupted


The Last Case

BMFF shorts: Sinsis by Carmen Lloret

Short films from BMFF- Fallout by Paul Turano

LINK TO FALLOUT BY PAUL TURANO A short featured at the Big Muddy Film Festival. 4:30
what is the clicking sound?
what are the images from- is the artist making the animations? or are they being made some other way?

Privatized water- from Sleep Dealer

Motion studies by Muybridge

a post literate society?

"At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool" 

Using videos found on Youtube to do research for school reports. 

Becoming Dragon

Micha Cardenas is spending 365 hours in Second Life while wearing 3D virtual reality glasses that exclude any light from the "real world." At the same time, all of her movements in real physical space are being translated into the motions of her avatar in 2nd life, a dragon called Arsdale Slade.  Video about her project, "Becoming Dragon."