THE VIDEO SHELF · video essay on cities
Cities Without People
Jacob Geller's video essay on empty cities and what they say about our relationship to places, using games, literature and aerial imagery. It touches on works such as Invisible Cities.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to Geller's essays as accessible companions to literary works and as a good summary of a story.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jacob Geller
- Topic
- video essay on cities
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Video (game) essayist Jacob Geller did a few videos which mentioned this work. [LINK] [LINK] They're quite interesting, I think. The abyss really gets him going. And a few more I really like: [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO] [LINK]
bsanr2 on Hacker News · 2021-10
In Borges: The Library of Babel [pdf]For those who don't have time to... "read"... this great story, Jacob Geller provides a fun and effective summary within this video at 9 minutes in [VIDEO] In his words: "It is in my opinion one of the best sci-fi stories ever written."
haiku2077 on Hacker News · 2025-06
In A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.