I am compiling a list of resources on video essays to encourage myself to start delving into the form.

Laura Thain, Video Essay Resource Guide (this would have saved me time if I had found it first).

5 filmmakers that have mastered the art of the Video Essay
by Jeremy Kaye
https://medium.com/the-creative-landscape-of-youtube/5-filmmakers-that-have-mastered-the-art-of-the-video-essay-9667f7b2ee9c#.w0zlvw3bt

[in]Transition
A Media Commons / Cinema Journal Project
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/

Fandor’s 11 Ways to Make Video Essays
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/11-ways-to-make-a-video-essay

How to Video Essays
by Greer Fyfe and Miriam Ross
http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/resources/how-to-guides/how-to-video-essays-by-greer-fyfe-and-miriam-ross/

What is a Video Essay?
by Paula Bernstein
https://filmmakermagazine.com/98248-what-is-a-video-essay-creators-grapple-with-a-definition/

The Rise of the YouTube Video Essay
http://www.simonowens.net/the-rise-of-the-youtube-video-essay

The Art of the Video Essay
by Kevin Lee
http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/the-art-of-the-video-essay-a-page-by-kevin-lee-grandmaster-of-the-form

Fandor’s Video Essays Page
https://www.fandor.com/video-essays

8 Must Follow Video Essay Editors by Michael Maher
http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/8-must-follow-video-essay-editors/