The Queue is an oft-recurring column in which Meg Shields provides you with a distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web.
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By Meg Shields
What we’re watching: a pair of video essays that highlight the strengths and limitations of black-and-white’s narrative power.
By Meg Shields
An experiment in perspective and parallel storytelling, ‘A Mind Sang’ is a hypnotic visual journey that blurs the boundaries between life and death.
By Meg Shields
What we’re watching: a video essay that breaks down the enigma of the vase shot from Yasujiro Ozu’s ‘Late Spring.’
By Meg Shields
Why watch a redundant photorealistic remake when you can watch a charmingly irreverent recap video that’s under five minutes?
By Meg Shields
Here’s an interview clip where Wendy Carlos—the pioneering synth composer behind the scores for ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ ‘The Shining,’ and ‘Tron’—demos an original Moog Synthesizer.
By Meg Shields
What we’re watching: a behind the scenes featurette on the making of DreamWorks Animation’s masterpiece: ‘The Prince of Egypt.’
By Meg Shields
Here’s a video essay celebrating the bizarre imagination of ‘Rango’.
By Meg Shields
Here’s a montage celebrating 125 years of one of the greatest artistic team-ups of all time: dance and film.
