The Best New Yorker Videos of 2016

The legendary film editor Walter Murch made a case for the moving image as a sign of the times. "I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others," he said in 2002. "In the nineteenth century, it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the twentieth century." In these early years of the twenty-first century, it is digital video that has emerged as a contender for the medium of our age. We n...