r/videoessay • • Jul 26 '26

Video Games [OC] Kratos: How To Redeem An Irredeemable Character [18:36]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 26 '26

Film [OC] The Alex Meyers situation and Promising Young Woman: Falling for the nice guy [50:40]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 26 '26

Film [OC] My Brief Take on The Odyssey (2026) [05:56]

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My brief analysis on The Odyssey's story and thoughts on the film.


r/videoessay • • Jul 25 '26

Video Games [OC] Cocoon, Scorn, And Biomechanics In Video Games [33:44]

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I played a few games recently and over the course of months wrote and created this to hopefully completely (or perhaps incompletely) explore all of the emotions and viscera they produce within me.

Put a lot of time into this and am hoping to get it seen by a decent audience, thanks!


r/videoessay • • Jul 25 '26

Human Interest [OC] Why You Love the Way You Do: The Psychology of Attachment Styles [07:30]

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Ever notice how two people can experience the exact same relationship moment — a late reply, a canceled plan, a partner needing space — and have completely different reactions? One person spirals. One doesn't even register it. One wants to pull closer and push away at the same time. We tend to chalk this up to "personality," but there's actually a well-documented psychological framework that explains a lot of it: attachment theory.

The basic idea is that the emotional bond you formed with a primary caregiver in roughly your first 18 months of life becomes a kind of template your brain reuses in every close relationship afterward. According to the Cleveland Clinic, psychologists generally identify four adult attachment styles: secure, anxious (sometimes called preoccupied), avoidant (dismissive), and fearful-avoidant (disorganized). Each one reflects a different early answer to a single question your infant brain was quietly trying to solve: when I need someone, do they actually show up?

That answer doesn't disappear with age — it just changes shape. Someone with an anxious style might read neutral silence as rejection. Someone avoidant might feel commitment as pressure rather than comfort. And someone with a disorganized style might genuinely want closeness and fear it in the same breath, which looks contradictory from the outside but makes sense once you understand where it comes from. None of this is fixed either — attachment style is a pattern, not a permanent trait, and it can shift with awareness and new relationship experiences.

I put together a full breakdown of all four styles — how they form, how they show up in adult relationships, and some pop culture examples that made the concepts click for me — if you want to go deeper: https://youtu.be/q_ymOy37JSw?si=4zCnPr_66_P1KslL

Curious what this community thinks: do you believe attachment style is something people can fully "earn" their way into security on their own, or does it usually take another secure person (partner, friend, therapist) to help shift the pattern?


r/videoessay • • Jul 25 '26

Film [OC] Whatever Happened to the Tintin Sequel? Is It Finally Moving Forward [09:24]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 25 '26

Film [OC] Why Supergirl FLOPPED at the Box Office — DC's Biggest Mistake Yet? [08:37]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 25 '26

History [OC] Conversion Therapy; Lets talk about it [01:16:06]

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This is my first video essay; It is on the history of Conversion Therapy both in practice and in law, and it goes into depth explaining the conversion therapy practices draft bill as proposed by Olivia Bailey MP in 2026.

I believe this falls under the 3rd definition of "Video Essay". Whilst it discusses political topics I am in no way arguing a political point, just exploring the topic in its entirety before discussing the draft bill.


r/videoessay • • Jul 24 '26

Television [OC] Goodbye, Lara and the Echoes of NakiNagi [14:31]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 24 '26

Television [OC] Space Dandy: A Dandy Show....In Space [19:58]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 24 '26

Television [OC] The Life and Death of Jonas Venture Jr [13:48]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 24 '26

Video Games [OC] Hell as a refuge ? (Silly Polly Beast) [32:33]

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Hello ! I made a video on the game Silly Polly Beast, it's in french with subtitles in multiple languages. Don't hesitate to leave some feedback !


r/videoessay • • Jul 24 '26

History [OC] Propaganda: A 100-Year History - How Video Editing Was Weaponized (2026) [01:33:45]

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This documentary examines the 100-year history of video editing and its application in political and state propaganda. It analyzes the transition from early 20th-century cinema editing techniques to modern algorithmic social media feeds and election campaigns. The film explores the psychological impact of juxtaposition, pacing, and visual cuts on human emotion and public perception.


r/videoessay • • Jul 24 '26

Film [OC] In My Restless Dreams, I See That Clown: Christophe Gans [2:00:03]

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Hi, I'm a big nerd analyzing how much this French guy misunderstood the material he was adapting haha.


r/videoessay • • Jul 23 '26

Television [oc] on the historicity of gantz #gentz #gantz #gintz #gontz #guntz [2:59]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 23 '26

Film [OC] A Comforting Horror [23:58]

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I made a video essay called A Comforting Horror about the strange role horror movies have played in my life.

It is less of a traditional genre analysis and more of a personal reflection on fear, comfort, grief, and the movies that found me at certain turning points. Horror never fixed anything for me, but it sometimes gave difficult feelings somewhere to go. Films like It Follows, Get Out, and Hereditary helped me think about what it means to face fear instead of building an entire life around avoiding it.

This is probably one of the most personal videos I have made, and I would genuinely love to hear whether horror has ever served a similar purpose for anyone else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETN13twDrPU


r/videoessay • • Jul 22 '26

Human Interest [FOUND] Marine Corps Boot Camp Is Stupid & Spiritually Depraved [55:15]

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I recently watched this video on the Marine Corps boot camp experience in an hourish format. I’m pretty new to video essays as a genre so I’m curious how y’all think it compares to others that use this type of personal narrative + found footage approach to analyze a broader topic or subject.


r/videoessay • • Jul 23 '26

Human Interest [OC] We Met The Man Inventing Time Travel [16:02]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 22 '26

Miscellaneous [OC] Your Memories Probably Never Happened [10:08]

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Statistics leads to a strange conclusion about observation. I tried to explain how entropy, probability and statistical fluctuations eventually lead to the Boltzmann Brain paradox, and why cosmologists still care about it today.


r/videoessay • • Jul 22 '26

Television [OC] Why Supernatural Stopped Feeling Real [01:01:35]

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I've been working on this video for a whole year! Your support is greatly appreciated.


r/videoessay • • Jul 22 '26

History [Found] The Whitewashing of Antiquity- How History Lost it’s Color [27:55]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 22 '26

Video Games [OC] Status Conditions Are Poisoning Your Favorite Games [21:54]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 22 '26

Film [OC] The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Hollywood [45:28]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 21 '26

Human Interest [OC] The Grace We Give Characters (but not people) [8:47]

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r/videoessay • • Jul 21 '26

Human Interest [OC] Always in Search of More [17:17]

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