One of the leaders on the forefront of studying and articulating the moving image, Catherine Grant's impressive and serious work both in the academic and the publishing realms has been invaluable to the greater visual essay canon for the last several years. Her site Film Studies For Free is an invaluable resource for video essay curation and education, while her online publication [in]Transition has been a successful Herculean feat of visual essay content aggregation, assignment and analysis.
Earlier this year University of Reading professor John Gibbs sat down with Grant for the Videographic Film Studies Now workshop and filmed this nearly hour-long conversation that is a must-watch for video essay creators and enthusiasts.