Video-essays

Nightclubs, wallpaper, socks… Stanley Kubrick’s influence is everywhere. To celebrate the BFI’s Kubrick season and to mark the inclusion of “Kubrickian” in the Oxford English Dictionary, Danny Leigh looks at how the director’s legacy has changed film-making and the wider world in unexpected ways.

An extract from a brand new visual essay written and narrated by critic Jonathan Romney. Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesised the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep) updated it for the New Millennium in his startlingly prescient Demonlover, a chilling exploration of the nexus between sex and violence available at the click of a button.

Why are so many fans and filmmakers obsessed with the films of John Carpenter? His films are often simple in style, and yet they inspire so much admiration from fans of the Horror, Action, and Adventure genres alike. His films: Halloween (1978), The Thing (1982) and Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and many others have left In this video, I will attempt to define why this is, by looking at Carpenter's unique approach to filmmaking, and prove once and for all why John Carpenter is the King of Genre films.

De jaren negentig waren een tijd van stabiliteit en welvaart. Saai! Het gevolg: cubicle-claustrofobie doordrenkte de filmhits van 1999. Een video-essay.

Video-essayist Lindsay Ellis fileert het woke-sausje van Disneys live action remakes.

Video-essay: hoe Toy Story 4 de lenzen van echte camera’s nabootst.

Here’s every music, movie, fine art, TV show, and celebrity reference in 1996's Scream by Wes Craven. From the famous "The Scream" painting and Pink Floyds "The Wall" album cover to homages to classic horror films like "Pyscho" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," check out all the pop-culture references and homages you may have missed in this thrilling classic.

Musicals and music videos - two very different art forms centred around just one common ground - music. But from Madonna's Material Girl to Beyoncé's Lemonade by way of Busby Berkley and Bob Fosse, there's more of a link between the two than meets the eye...

In both Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980), characters compulsively journey to the lower depths, to an underworld. But their compulsion is pre-programmed; they are possessed by parental figures of high authority, mother or father. Extremes of high and low structure everything in these two films: places, gestures, voices. Two films on the creative margins of the slasher/serial killer genre.

In this video essay, Kogonada, the director of Columbus (2017), examines how Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma imbues memories of everyday life in early-1970s Mexico City with the grand sweep of history.