"Films don't need to have grandiose visual production to have pertinent and strong imagery." While film is a visual medium, there's more to cinema than just pointing a camera at actors. Here's another ...

School of Visual Arts presents “Selections from Thesis Projects,” an online exhibition of thesis projects by the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay class of 2020. Curated by David Sandlin, thesis ...

What makes visual essays notably different from their written brethren? The idea of images accompanying an argument or a story is nothing new, but with the rise of YouTube, the format has become much ...

As more and more journals (Visual Studies/Visual Communication/Visual Anthropology) and other venues open up to the possibilities of publishing in creative and image based ways, the question of what ...

Cairns dissects Tati’s gags that interlope with each other—one comedic aside feeding into the next, and so on and so forth – and how Tati turned this crazed comic clockwork into a veritable, and ...

Earlier this summer, SVA President David Rhodes announced the appointment of Riccardo Vecchio as chair of the College’s MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program. A 1996 alumnus of the program and a ...

Considering the fact that director Martin Scorsese's next film is Silence, an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel of the same name, it seems only appropriate that a new video essay focuses on his ...

The Latin alphabet’s letter A can be traced back to an Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox head; the letter M is believed to have its origins in a hieroglyph representing water. These pictograms are no ...

It’s in fashion to praise the practical effects of modern blockbusters today while spurning the CGI overload of bloated blockbusters past. One of the reasons that Mad Max: Fury Road resonated as much ...