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Every Frame a Painting — The Visual Comedy of Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs

Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos return after years away with a new video essay

Every Frame a Painting — The Visual Comedy of Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs

Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos shut Every Frame a Painting down in 2017 at the height of its influence, and stayed mostly quiet for years; this is them back, with the same careful frame-by-frame habit applied to Anderson’s stop-motion film. The essay is interesting on its own — a clean explanation of how Anderson plays comedy through symmetry, blocking, and timing rather than dialogue — and meaningful as a signal that the format that essentially invented modern video criticism is alive again.

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