The Rough Cut looks at the art of supercuts

Worth a couple of minutes of your time on a slow Sunday morning is The Rough Cut's look at the art of the supercut, which it describes as "the postmodern lovechild of montage, meme, and media studies."

We don't tend to link to other people's content too often. But when we come across something that's properly worth sharing we're happy to. And we give them credit. Fair dues. A rising tide lifts all boats and all that.

So, in that spirit, we are very taken by this: The Cut That Changed Everything: Supercuts.

It's from The Rough Cut, the content blog set up by Eddie.AI. It's often a decent read. This one in particular. 

As it says, "Born from archival docs and raised on YouTube, the supercut lets anyone—with no camera and too much time—make a film out of every film ever made."

It's a crash course in the subject, basically. It gives us a century of the genre, from the montages of Sergei Eisenstein in the 1920s all the way up to the final boss of the supercut, Adam Curtis. It describes his work as "epic tone poems built from newsreels, PSA, propaganda and pop music." 

Which is an excuse for a link if ever there was.

Along the way it looks at the issues of copyright and the supercut. It's either a quick two minute read. Or a jumping off point for a whole happy morning of YouTube and nosing round the subject.

Good work.