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Sight and Sound Best Video Essays of 2025 (Highlights):
1. Jiří Anger and Veronika Hanáková, "The Return of the Star Wipe" - Topic: Film/Media Archaeology
2. Lucy Fife Donaldson, "(dis)Orientating Horror: Feeling Queerly" - Topic: Film/Queer Theory
3. Sadia Quraeshi Shepard, "Shadow Self: On Agnès Varda’s Documenteur" - Topic: Film
4. Lily Alexandre, "Trans Day of Vanishing" - Topic: Society/Trans Identity
5. josh (with parentheses), "You are a better writer than AI. (Yes, you.)" - Topic: Technology/Writing
6. Maryam Tafakory, "Daria’s Night Flowers" - Topic: Film/Iranian Cinema
7. Fırat Yücel, "happiness" - Topic: Politics/Genocide/Media
Sight and Sound Best Video Essays of 2024 (Highlights):
8. Barbara Zecchi, "The Rhythms of Rage: From Solitude to Solidarity" - Topic: Film/Gender
9. Hbomberguy (Harry Brewis), "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" - Topic: Internet Culture/Ethics
10. Lily Ford, "Light Hands" - Topic: Film/Art
11. Occitane Lacurie, "xena’s body (a menstrual auto-investigation using an iphone)" - Topic: Film/Body Politics
12. Occitane Lacurie, "Ordinatrices: About the Negative Spaces of Early Computing" - Topic: Technology/History
13. Alison Peirse, "Knit One, Stab Two" - Topic: Film/Craft
14. Jenny Nicholson, "The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel" - Topic: Culture/Business
15. Contrapoints (Natalie Wynn), "Twilight" - Topic: Literature/Culture
16. Max Tohline, "Onscreen a Dream, Offscreen a Waste" - Topic: Environment/Media
17. Johannes Binotto, "not exactly a still life" - Topic: Film/AI
18. Alex Pierce, "Godzilla x Kong x WWE mashup" - Topic: Pop Culture
Polygon's Best Video Essays of 2024:
19. Mina Le, "third places, stanley cup mania, and the epidemic of loneliness" - Topic: Culture/Society
20. Barbara Zecchi, "The Rhythms of Rage: from Solitude to Solidarity" - Topic: Film/Gender
21. Silvia Dal Dosso, "The Future Is Going To Be Weird AF (The Ultimate AI CoreCore Experience) - Part Two" - Topic: Technology/Art
22. Secret Base (Jon Bois), "REFORM!" - Topic: Politics/History
23. Yance Ford, "Power" - Topic: Society/Politics
24. Summoning Salt, "The History of Tetris World Records" - Topic: Games/History
25. Jenny Nicholson, "The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel" - Topic: Culture/Business
26. Maria Hofmann, "Sticky" - Topic: Technology/Society
27. Sarah Z, "The Narcissist Scare" - Topic: Psychology/Internet Culture
28. Broey Deschanel (Maia Wyman), "Hag Horror: Why Are We So Afraid of Old Women?" - Topic: Film/Gender
Sight and Sound Best Video Essays of 2022 (Highlights):
29. Maryam Tafakory, "Nazarbazi" - Topic: Film/Iranian Cinema
30. Dan Olson (Folding Ideas), "Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs" - Topic: Technology/Economics
31. Liz Greene, "Spencer Bell, Nobody Knows My Name" - Topic: Film/History/Race
32. Johannes Binotto, "Practices of Viewing" (Series) - Topic: Film/Media Theory
33. Barbara Zecchi, "Breaking the Silence and Singing" - Topic: Film/Gender
34. Cormac Donnelly, "Can I Remember It Differently?" - Topic: Film/Memory
35. Kristian T. Williams (kaptainkristian), "Cowboy Bebop x Blade Runner – Cycle of Influence" - Topic: Animation/Film
36. Andrew Saladino (The Royal Ocean Film Society), "What the Internet Did to Garfield" - Topic: Internet Culture/Animation
37. Eva Hageman, "Shiplap" - Topic: Culture/Race
38. Maria Hofmann, "Maria’s Marias" - Topic: Film
39. Alan O’Leary, "Men Shouting" - Topic: Film/Gender
40. Matthew Tomkinson, "wings flapping" - Topic: Sound/Media
Sight and Sound Best Video Essays of 2019 (Highlights):
41. Chloé Galibert-Laîné, "Watching The Pain of Others" - Topic: Internet Culture/Psychology
42. Catherine Grant, "The Haunting of The Headless Woman" - Topic: Film
43. Tracy Cox-Stanton, "Gesture in A Woman Under the Influence" - Topic: Film
44. Eric Faden, "Visual Disturbances" - Topic: Film/Media Theory
45. Cormac Donnelly, "Pan Scan Venkman" - Topic: Film/Technology
46. Shane Denson, "The Algorithmic Nickelodeon" - Topic: Film/Technology
47. Grace Lee, "Indy Vinyl on The Clock (and the clock)" - Topic: Film/Art
48. Luís Azevedo, "36 Westerns Timed to First Gunshot" - Topic: Film/Western
49. Thomas Flight, "The Problem Solving of Filmmaking" - Topic: Film
50. Rishi Kaneria, "The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad" - Topic: TV/Chemistry
Sight and Sound Best Video Essays of 2017 (Highlights):
51. Kevin B. Lee, "#movieofmylife" (Tokyo Story) - Topic: Film/Personal
52. Pop Culture Detective (Jonathan McIntosh), "Predatory Romance in Harrison Ford Movies" - Topic: Film/Gender
53. Nerdwriter1 (Evan Puschak), "Why Bruno Mars’ ‘24K Magic’ Makes You Dance" - Topic: Music
54. Lessons from the Screenplay, "Ex Machina, The Control of Information" - Topic: Film/Screenwriting
55. Every Frame a Painting (Tony Zhou), "Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time" - Topic: Animation/Film
56. Patrick (H) Willems, "Steven Spielberg: The Power of Touch" - Topic: Film
57. Lindsay Ellis, "The Whole Plate" (Series on Transformers) - Topic: Film/Media Theory
58. Sideways, "How How to Train Your Dragon Uses Music" - Topic: Animation/Music
59. KaptainKristian, "Adult Swim - The History of a Television Empire" - Topic: TV/History
60. Cinema Tyler, "How Stanley Kubrick Achieved the Impossible" - Topic: Film
Sight and Sound / Fandor Best Video Essays of 2016 (Highlights):
61. Tony Zhou (Every Frame a Painting), "Joel & Ethan Coen – Shot | Reverse Shot" - Topic: Film
62. Filmscalpel, "When Words Fail in Movies" - Topic: Film
63. Kevin B. Lee, "How Does an Editor Think and Feel?" - Topic: Film
64. Nerdwriter1, "The Death of Art" - Topic: Art
65. Lessons from the Screenplay, "The Dark Knight — Creating the Ultimate Antagonist" - Topic: Film/Screenwriting
66. KaptainKristian, "Pixar - What Makes a Story" - Topic: Animation/Film
67. Cinema Tyler, "The Cinematography of The Revenant" - Topic: Film
68. Patrick (H) Willems, "The Tragedy of the MCU" - Topic: Film
69. Lindsay Ellis, "The Case for Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame" - Topic: Animation/Film
70. Sideways, "Why the Music in Cats (2019) is a Disaster" (Note: Released later, but creator active) -> Replace with: Sideways, "How the Music in Shrek is a Masterpiece" - Topic: Animation/Music
Sight and Sound / Fandor Best Video Essays of 2015 (Highlights):
71. Tony Zhou (Every Frame a Painting), "Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy" - Topic: Film
72. Nerdwriter1, "How Donald Trump Answers A Question" - Topic: Politics/Communication
73. Kevin B. Lee, "Transformers: The Premake" - Topic: Film/Media Theory
74. KaptainKristian, "Superman - The Golden Age of Animation" - Topic: Animation/History
75. Cinema Tyler, "How David Fincher Directs" - Topic: Film
76. Kogonada, "Wes Anderson // Centered" - Topic: Film
77. Kogonada, "Kubrick // One-Point Perspective" - Topic: Film
78. Fandor, "The Art of the Steal" - Topic: Film
79. Press Play, "The Spielberg Oner" - Topic: Film
80. Catherine Grant, "Touching the Film Object" - Topic: Film/Media Theory
Sight and Sound / Fandor Best Video Essays of 2014 (Highlights):
81. Tony Zhou (Every Frame a Painting), "Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time" (Wait, already listed in 2017 highlights, let's use another) -> Tony Zhou, "The Spielberg Face" - Topic: Film
82. Kevin B. Lee, "The Best Video Essays of 2014" (Meta-essay) - Topic: Film
83. Kogonada, "Eyes of Hitchcock" - Topic: Film
84. Kogonada, "Hands of Bresson" - Topic: Film
85. Filmscalpel, "The Video Essay: A New Form of Criticism" - Topic: Media Theory
86. Nerdwriter1, "The Architecture of Inception" - Topic: Film
87. Every Frame a Painting, "Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?" - Topic: Film
88. Every Frame a Painting, "Robin Williams - What is Motion?" - Topic: Film
89. Every Frame a Painting, "The Marvel Symphonic Universe" - Topic: Film/Music
90. Every Frame a Painting, "Vancouver Never Plays Itself" - Topic: Film/Geography
Additional Acclaimed Video Essays (To reach 100):
91. Hbomberguy, "Sherlock Is Garbage, And Here's Why" - Topic: TV/Criticism
92. Contrapoints, "The Hunger" - Topic: Philosophy/Society
93. Philosophy Tube, "Steve Bannon" - Topic: Politics/Philosophy
94. Shaun, "The Bell Curve" - Topic: Science/Politics
95. Innuendo Studios, "The Alt-Right Playbook" (Series) - Topic: Politics/Communication
96. Defunctland, "Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History" - Topic: Culture/Business
97. Summoning Salt, "The Quest to Beat Matt Turk" - Topic: Games/History
98. Jon Bois, "17776" (Multimedia/Video Essay) - Topic: Fiction/Sports
99. Super Eyepatch Wolf, "The Disappearance of Akumetsu" - Topic: Manga/Culture
100. NakeyJakey, "Video Game Box Art" - Topic: Games/Design