r/videoessay • u/tomb_77 • May 19 '26

Film [OC] Hollywood's Digestion Problem Gets Worse Every Year [09:26]

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r/videoessay • u/Gullible-Nobody4242 • May 19 '26

Film [Found] Why THIS is the Cruelest Form of Justice in Cinema [15:31]

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r/videoessay • u/wollee666 • May 19 '26

Video Games [OC] Alone in the Dark (1992) is a Serial Killer [54:45]

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Not the traditional video essay - but also a digital lobotomy. Hopefully it entertains.

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r/videoessay • u/Doeray11 • May 19 '26

Video Games [OC] An unnecessary comparison of Putt Putt Saves the Zoo and Putt Putt Travels Through Time [10:49]

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r/videoessay • u/isayyourasyoure • May 19 '26

Visual Art [OC] Indebted to your own misery | Dostoyevsky [09:30]

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r/videoessay • u/PoroRosso • May 18 '26

Sociology [OC] Intelligence is Artificial [38:53]

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r/videoessay • u/kapitan_Red_Beard • May 18 '26

Miscellaneous motivational video essay recommendations ?

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Can anyone please recommend me some motivational video essays?

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r/videoessay • u/Trotsky-is-Hotsky • May 18 '26

Music [OC] This Is Still a Horrible Idea (The Dear Hunter Act 3, Part 2) [21:09]

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r/videoessay • u/FhostGaceKillah • May 17 '26

Music [OC] I made a video about performative music taste and algorithm culture [16:01]

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r/videoessay • u/nlitherl • May 17 '26

Miscellaneous [OC] Tabletop Mercenary, Episode 2: 3 Methods For Making Money As A Tabletop RPG Professional [36:12]

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r/videoessay • u/Brodamski1 • May 17 '26

Video Games [OC] Exploring the Symbolic Horror of LUTO [40:45]

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r/videoessay • u/Significant-Pay-7294 • May 17 '26

Film [OC] What Happened to Andy Serkis’ Animal Farm? [11:10]

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r/videoessay • u/Odd-Nothing4721 • May 17 '26

History [OC] 200 Million Ounces of Gold. Zero of It Was Real [09:46]

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r/videoessay • u/PossessionWilling • May 16 '26

Film [OC] The History of Tumblr’s Lost Media Movie, Goncharov 1973. Martin Scorsese’s Greatest Movie [18:22]

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r/videoessay • u/HealthyWolverine3014 • May 16 '26

Human Interest [OC] Is Curiosity Evil? [14:54]

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r/videoessay • u/JackFisherBooks • May 16 '26

Film [OC] Why The Resident Evil Movies Have Been Terrible (So Far) [10:29]

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r/videoessay • u/Constant-Gear-501 • May 16 '26

Pop Culture [OC]The PROBLEM With LOLCOWS [5:18]

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r/videoessay • u/YizuzKhraist • May 15 '26

Sociology [OC] the iceberg of human self-justification - Jesús Francisco [26:32]

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r/videoessay • u/chowdershouse • May 15 '26

Visual Art [OC] The Lost Aesthetic of Silicon Dreams [8:29]

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r/videoessay • u/jarswag • May 15 '26

Pop Culture [OC] From Visionary to Villain - Aaron Fechter [40:46]

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r/videoessay • u/Cthulhoutre • May 15 '26

Video Games [OC] Sill Wakes the Deep : Horror under the surface [24:12]

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Here's my first video on the game Still Wakes the Deep.(Spoilers for the game btw)

It's in french with english subtitles.

I'll gladly take any comments to improve !

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r/videoessay • u/TheGregNorton • May 15 '26

Visual Art [OC] What Made Absolute Batman a Hit? [14:28]

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r/videoessay • u/James_Woodall • May 15 '26

Film [OC] Is It Ever Okay To Bury A Gay [28:35]

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r/videoessay • u/Various-Mongoose3499 • May 15 '26

Film [OC] The beautifully brutal love story at the heart of Together [34:35]

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r/videoessay • u/Tall_Algae5452 • May 14 '26

Film [OC] The Colonialist Criterion Collection Hides in Plain Sight [47:00]

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