Every Frame a Painting Returns to YouTube & Explores Why the Sustained Two-Shot Vanished from Movies

Video essayists don’t normally retire; in most cases, they just drift into inactivity. Hence the surprise and even dismay of the internet’s cinephiles when Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos declared the end of their respected channel Every Frame a Painting in 2016. We here at Open Culture had featured their analyses of everything from the work of auteurs like Martin Scorsese, Jackie Chan, and Michael Bay to how classical art inspired celebrated shots to the thoughts and feelings of edi