# 110.0000 - Video Essays Index Index of projects gathered under 110 - Video Essays, alphabetized by title. **[[0010 - Automatic Menagerie|Automatic Menagerie]]** — Video essay tracing the trope of constructed magical beings serving human rulers across cultures, proposing a decolonial corollary to the hero's journey; a response to discourse framing AI and generative art as threats to a colonially-reliant "soul." (2024) #video-essay #decolonial #artificial-intelligence **[[0020 - Children of the Night|Children of the Night]]** — Video essay remixing film, music videos, and live performance to trace the evolution of queer camp, genderfuck, and Afrofuturist monster aesthetics into an "epicene style" distinct from Sontag's Camp. (2024) #video-essay #camp #queer-theory #monster-studies **[[0030 - Occularia|Occularia]]** — Video essay remixing experimental, narrative, and scientific early cinema to explore film as an interface with the neurological systems of perception, capable of inducing altered states. (2025) #video-essay #altered-states #vision #pre-cinema **[[000 - Strange Light - Abstract|Strange Light]]** — Multi-part videographic exploration of recurring forms ("topos") of composed and projected light, from shadow puppetry and the camera obscura to the kaleidoscope, color organ, and abstract film, through contemporary interactive installations. (2025–Ongoing) #video-essay #light-art #media-archaeology