series of 5 4k videos / 21 minutes / language: english

Essays on Images is a series of 5 video essays examining aspects of our past, current, and potential future image culture.

The Short Era of Text introduces the series by discussing common assumptions about the felt novelty of an image-based world and how these assumptions deepen generational divides.
Bookend takes the TV show "Murder She Wrote" as a starting point to talk about the gaze into the camera as a technique to create complicity. Episodes of Murder She Wrote utilizing this trick rank among the weakest of the show, while the world of social media is dominated by people gazing directly into the lens.
Found Places juxtaposes the desire for modern ruins with the companion trend of Backrooms and other liminal spaces and asks whether the places themselves or images of these places are what's sought after.
Human Breen discusses the amateur fimmaker Neil Breen's cinematic universe and the truths a movie full of technical mistakes and visual errors communicates better than a more polished product.
All the World closes the series with a look ahead: What will be the defining visual traits, the "style" of the twenty-twenties which now, as we still live through the decade, we cannot identify?