ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how crafting video essays can become a way to perform criticism using creative license that is backed up with critical knowledge. By re-examining the processes involved in developing three video projects that play up the interplay between audiovisual texts, the chapter explores the relationship between video essays and more traditional written projects. The chapter analyses a case study on auteurism and Alfonso Cuaron which combines images from the 2018 film Roma and sound from the 2001 film Y tu mama tambien. As editing software has become more accessible, however, the growing trend of scholarly video essays has allowed scholars and critics to perform critical work in the language of cinema itself. Choosing to intercut narration from Y tu mama tambien with a single, otherwise unedited scene from Roma turned out to be challenging.
