Being that most video essays are looking to give some razzle dazzle via their visual format, it’s a given that composition comes up in… well, just about any example that’s worth a damn. But the many forms of composition are explored far less often than specific styles or the ways a particular director uses them, and so the latest work from Lewis Bond – who we’ve featured here before – marks a worthwhile addition to the ever-expanding canon.
Although its weird place is acknowledged in the beginning, the initial visual examples left me worried that we’d be witnessing another display of how and why the shots in a Wes Anderson movie say things that can’t be expressed with words, etc. But a larger history is explored, and various ways of understanding composition – levels of control on the subject’s part and the significance of movement among them – are applied to fine ends.
Have a look below: