Author: Meg Shields

Buckle up. Here’s a video essay on a type of scene that’s easily taken for granted.

Here’s a breakdown of how slow motion went from a technological hurdle to an aesthetic choice.

Here’s a video essay that looks at the suggestive, subtle psychological qualities of camera lenses.

Here’s a video essay that breaks down why the genre-defying softness of ‘First Cow’ permeates its edit.

Remember the orange and teal plague of the 2010s? Good times.

Here’s a video essay on why the pride and despair of Paul Schrader’s film defines the latent darkness of the 2010s.

Baby. Yeah, Baby.

Everything in ‘Days of Heaven’ was accomplished in-camera. And yes that includes the locusts.

Turns out understanding how they designed the screams of the Nazgûl only makes them creepier.