ABSTRACT
The video essay is a form that was first used by cinema commentators to share their thoughts and critical thinking about a film. With the explosion of images and videos on the internet, essayists using images, however, do need to consider knowledge-making as being quite distinct in the visual mode to the written. The major and central difference is that the video essay, in distinction from digital storytelling and a short film, will have a very clear analytical point and argument to make. Writing was the preferred and familiar mode of communication, and visual communication had been either relegated to a specific area of Social Work or was seen as marginal, or for instrumental purposes alone. There has been an illustrious tradition in Social Work's history in which various people have attempted to introduce and include creative dimensions, whether in practical applications or in more philosophical ruminations about the place of the imagination, the immanent, and the aesthetic more generally.
