Patrick H. Willems on Music Videos

Patrick H. Willems is constantly churning out great work. Truly — banger after banger that looks at all manner of different aspects of film, filmmaking, film watching, trends, genres, and more. It’s a genuinely impressive and staggering collection of work that shows no signs of stopping with his latest. The season premiere of his video essays is all about music videos — their origins, their appeals, their place in the filmmaker pipeline, and their relevance to culture now.

He looks at how music videos were such a formative ground for so many directors, and whether that can ever happen again.

Willems does a thorough job without feeling too didactic and presents some facts you may not know as well as some insights that make total sense as he assembles them. All done in a great presentation that’s also fun and funny (the final gag had me laughing out loud).

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