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Ceredigion County Council proposes changes to Off-Street Parking Places Order2024 saw politics, culture, and the overlap between them grow ever stranger, and that’s reflected in our picks for the year’s top video essays. Videos about artificial intelligence, abuses of authority, mass hysteria, weird corporate trends (and weirder corporate collapses) fill out these ranks. Lest that make this year’s list sound like too much of a downer, know that most of these works are also supremely fun. It has now been six years since I first did a piece like this for Polygon . In that time, I’ve seen a lot of novice video makers become pros, the pros refine their craft to increasingly fascinating ends, and more and more promising new talent arise. I think this ranking reflects all those strands. On making this list: With this style of video continuing to grow in popularity, one way I’ve made keeping up with things manageable for the purposes of articles like this is abiding by stricter, more traditional parameters for what “counts” as a video essay. If there’s a notable video from 2024 that’s not present here, it may be because, as great as it was, it strayed too far from that definition. Additionally, each year, I’m conscious of trying to keep things fresh by not including too many essays from creators honored in earlier iterations. This time around, I decided to take it a step further by imposing a firm prohibition against including work by anyone who’s already appeared in these annual roundups more than once. Apologies, then, to consistently great essayists like Yhara Zayd and Jacob Geller . Finally, I will admit that I cheated last year by using double features and honorable mentions to include 15 videos in the “top 10”; I was more disciplined this time around. As always, these videos are presented in order of publishing date. ‘third places, stanley cup mania, and the epidemic of loneliness’ by Mina Le Mina Le has become one of my go-to resources for keeping up with and comprehending the vast ecosystem of online commerce, influencers, style, fads, and how these elements all feed into and off one another. The title of this video seemingly name-checks three distinct things. Le argues persuasively that viral shopping crazes like the one around Stanley bottles early this year are partly a way for people to feel a sense of belonging in an increasingly atomized and alienated society — even if they can only realize this feeling through consumption. ‘The Rhythms of Rage: from Solitude to Solidarity’ by Barbara Zecchi The shortest video on this year’s list is also its most formally inventive. Zecchi has constructed a collage of scenes from film and television that capture moments of female rage. But rather than a supercut, the shots are presented through a continually expanding (spiraling outward, in fact, which feels appropriate, given the subject matter) grid pattern. The essay ultimately transitions from these shots of isolated figures to ones of masses of women working together, illustrating the progression from individual grievance to collective action. ‘The Future Is Going To Be Weird AF (The Ultimate AI CoreCore Experience) - Part Two’ by Silvia Dal Dosso This is a sequel to an experiment Dal Dosso released last year. For the uninitiated, “corecore” is a nebulous emergent genre of social media videos that can perhaps most succinctly be summed up as assemblages of melancholy vibes — ambient music, dark footage, countless shots of Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049 , etc. Dal Dosso strives for an especially pure corecore (corecore... core?) experience by juxtaposing unreal-seeming moments from the news and socials with actually unreal AI-generated images. It’s both a tribute to and a parody of the work of Adam Curtis, replete with an AI Curtis narrating. It’s one of the few genuinely artistic uses of the technology I’ve seen. ‘REFORM!’ by Secret Base Secret Base launched a Patreon this year with the most welcome news possible: the resurrection of Jon Bois’ long-dormant, deeply beloved series Pretty Good . (Catch up with this episode about Lawnchair Larry , this one about an epic bodybuilder forum argument , and this one about 24 .) Appropriately for an election year, Bois created a holistic three-part look at the brief life and embarrassing times of the Reform Party. In the backbiting and wheeling/dealing between the likes of Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura, and Pat Buchanan, the essay draws out the broader challenges of trying to disrupt the entrenched political system of the United States. Power by Yance Ford, et al . For a change of pace, here’s a film that appeared in festivals and theaters before becoming available via Netflix this year. Director Yance Ford is best known for his highly personal 2017 debut Strong Island , for which he became the first openly trans man to be nominated for an Oscar. He’s come back to feature filmmaking with this critical look at the evolution of policing as an institution in the United States. Wielding archival materials to devastating comparisons between past and present, Ford tracks an unmistakable surge of authoritarianism in America. ‘The History of Tetris World Records’ by Summoning Salt Tetris is one of the greatest works of art (video game or otherwise) made in the past 50 years because of how its initial simplicity opens up to infinite possible variations. A similarly expansive competitive community has built up around the game. It’s Tetris ; how much could there possibly be to getting good at it? There’s no better YouTuber to answer this question than Summoning Salt, the Ken Burns of speedrunning. This video gets you fully invested in these escalating struggles of one-upmanship, making people looking at screens and their investment in falling blocks and numbers going up extraordinarily compelling. The result is that one of the most exciting things I’ve seen in any film this year is a simple left-to-right tracking shot of a chart. ‘The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel’ by Jenny Nicholson Jenny Nicholson’s work might seem more vloggy than essayistic, but that’s only if you aren’t paying attention. There are plenty of YouTubers who do nothing but talk to a camera at length, but people aren’t watching the entirety of this four-hour video just to get the nitty-gritty on Disney World’s short-lived, now-shuttered immersive Star Wars-themed hotel. Nicholson has an uncanny gift for making highly structured arguments and narratives feel informal and off the cuff. She has also probably forgotten more about theme park history, design, and logistics than most of us ever learn. This is one of the most impactful YouTube videos released this year, garnering news attention and reviving widespread discussion about Disney’s questionable business practices. ‘Sticky’ by Maria Hofmann Each year, the streaming service Mubi and the Filmadrid film festival collaborate to release a series of video essays. By far the standout in 2024 was Maria Hofmann’s “desktop horror documentary,” which uncannily replicates the way that simply existing online in the modern day can expose you to a constant stream of awful imagery. Different desktop windows — one for email, one for research, one displaying sobering news on the Mediterranean migrant crisis — shuffle about the screen, illustrating how much of modern life is compartmentalizing atrocity to the point where it becomes routine. In 2024, this feels especially apt. ‘The Narcissist Scare’ by Sarah Z Life in 2024 also means that seemingly every other week, you learn about an alleged disturbing trend or stack of how-to tips that turns out to have originated from a lot of gullible and/or grifty people playing a game of telephone over social media. It is disquieting to see, in a supposedly technologically enlightened age, how much sites like Instagram and TikTok facilitate and perpetuate almost primal superstitious thought. Sarah Z (like Nicholson, a strong practitioner of direct YouTube address) traces the junk science and fraudulent dime-store psychology seen in the myriad videos about the dangers of “narcissists” and traces them back not just to our petty need to find excuses to demonize others, but also to a literal belief in demons and spiritual warfare. Modernity is very odd, and I am frequently tired. ‘Hag Horror: Why Are We So Afraid of Old Women?’ by Broey Deschanel The Substance was one of the big lower-budget success stories and a notable engine of controversy in film this year, the latter due both to its grossness and to its ideas about womanhood, fame, and body image. Maia Wyman puts the movie in the historical context of body horror and “hagsploitation,” and how the duel between Demi Moore’s and Margaret Qualley’s characters acts out the broader cultural terror of aging and decay. Best of the Year Culture Entertainment Polygon Lists Polygon Picks Special Issues What to Watch
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The strange case of a "Four Unlikes" Creature Dining at Villagers' DoorstepsExciting Discovery: 4 Ancient Wooden Slips Unearthed in South Korea Covered in Chinese CharactersDetails emerge about suspect charged with murder in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEOPaddy Davitt delivers his Portsmouth verdict after Norwich City’s battling Championship point. 1. Not pretty, but pretty effective Now we know. Norwich and Johannes Hoff Thorup can do pragmatism as well as possession. This was a raw-boned game of Championship cut and thrust. Thorup himself called the fayre 'terrible'. Low on quality but rich in endeavour and character and fighting spirit from the Canaries. Commodities that were brought into question by the limpness of that 3-0 weekend defeat at QPR and the defensive vulnerability exposed at set pieces. At times this had the feel of a cup tie, with the ball a bystander. When Callum Doyle sensed the danger at his back post, in the first of six additional minutes, heading behind as the blue shirts sensed a big opportunity, he punched the air with all the lustre that greeted his thumping goal against Watford earlier in the season. It was a night for righting a few wrongs. Even the normally ice-cool Thorup cut an animated figure in the tight confines of the two dugouts, particularly in a heated exchange or two in the first half with the fourth official. Norwich can and will play much better this season. But they might struggle to derive as much satisfaction from the manner they ground out a point at a raucous, febrile Fratton Park. Particularly given the fresh blast of adversity that hit them prior to kick-off. 2. ‘Fair or not fair’ Glen Riddersholm did not explicitly reference the FA’s decision to hit Kenny McLean with another four-game ban for violent conduct for an alleged incident not recorded, so presumably not seen, by the officials at QPR. But the timing of his social media post, which came between official confirmation of the news and kick-off at Fratton Park said it all. McLean cut a crestfallen figure as he trooped off the team bus. There was a consoling hug from Thorup as they got a first sight of the pitch. Incredibly, the Scottish international will have missed eight games by the turn of the year. Irony of ironies, the first game he is available again will be QPR’s spicy Carrow Road return. City’s appeal was rejected out of hand on Tuesday afternoon. The brief time it took to be dismissed would only add to that ‘frustration’, which Riddersholm urged those inside and outside the club to use as ‘fuel’. It would seem, on face value, grossly unfair for the Scot to suffer a three-game ban, and the further one game uplift related to his previous red card misdemeanour against Middlesbrough, for an alleged altercation with a QPR midfielder midway through the opening period that ‘wasn’t seen by the match officials at the time, but it was caught on camera’. Thorup made it clear in his first public post-match utterances on the matter he expects a raft of retrospective calls to come now in the Championship with precedent set. Given the Ante Crnac offside call, the clear penalty for handball and the foul on Angus Gunn in the build up to QPR’s second goal, the football authorities appear to have meted out rough justice. While other actors escape any such forensic scrutiny of their performance. Although it may be worth checking where the QPR match officials find themselves posted this coming weekend. But if Riddersholm’s clarion call is heeded, and that sense of unfairness lingers, there might be one positive to grasp. 3. Solid citizens In the midst of Thorup’s takedown of his players struggles at QPR this always felt like a night to restore Jose Cordoba to the first XI. Hamstring issues have hindered the Panamanian centre back, but his sheer size and presence looked like invaluable elements for another arm wrestle of a Championship contest. Cordoba slotted in alongside Shane Duffy, who similarly possesses the physical attributes to handle the earthier dimension of combat in the second tier. There was a dramatic decrease in the ball-playing requirements of the two Norwich centre backs at Fratton Park and a marked reduction in the slip passing involving Angus Gunn that had previously been the hallmark of Thorup’s deep build up play structure. This was a night to head it, kick it and deal with the Pompey barrage from set pieces. Neither was found wanting, although Duffy’s rashness earned him a needless first half booking in a flurry of yellow cards, as City strived to prove collectively they can mix it as well as manoeuvre opponents off-balance with the sureness of their possession. On this wintry night, and after the events at Loftus Road, Duffy and Cordoba were the perfect pairing. Duffy has shown enough already this season he has an understated passing range, go back to the third goal against Luton last time out at Carrow Road, while Cordoba looks equally comfortable on the ball. Rather than horses for courses, and needs must, the duo may have put down a marker for a more lasting union. 4. Over to you, Lunghi Without second guessing Thorup, his compatriot may have been the main beneficiary to the late, McLean-enforced switch to the City starting line up on the south-coast. A fair assumption given Jacob Sorensen had been dipped out since that comprehensive Plymouth win, minus his initial passing error that led to the Pilgrims’ solitary goal on the night, and the return to fitness of Marcelino Nunez. But with McLean now missing until the turn of the year, the 26-year-old looks the nearest carbon copy. In truth, he has never exhibited the dynamism and drive or the sheer athletic output of McLean during a City career which has, for the most part, hovered around the margins. He will not command the same contractual headlines as Gunn or Grant Hanley, or even Ashley Barnes, but Sorensen is another approaching the final months of his current deal. Albeit the Canaries retain a further year option. But to trigger that extension Sorensen may feel this is now his time to press his case. He was pitched into deep water, when McLean was previously suspended and injuries bit hard for those tough defeats to Cardiff, Sheffield Wednesday and Bristol City. That felt harsh to judge a player who had been sidelined for so long and was then thrust into emergency action. But he has had match minutes and training weeks since to come to the boil. Norwich will need Sorensen’s composure and his ability to read the game, allied to a layer of protection for the Canaries’ back four. Not only does his team need him, but he needs to deliver.
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