Beyoncé — "Self-Titled"

“Self-Titled” is the five-part documentary Beyoncé began releasing the December midnight the album it’s named for arrived — no single, no announcement, no press run, just seventeen videos and the film of how they were made. The drop turned “visual album” into a genre.

Across chapters titled “The Visual Album,” “Imperfection,” “Run ’N Gun,” “Liberation,” and “Honesty,” it leaves the finished record behind for the rooms that built it: late studio sessions, rehearsal floors, the edit bay, home-video archives, and unguarded interviews with Beyoncé talking through fear, control, and the nerve it takes to release your most personal work without asking anyone’s permission.

Cut on all five parts as an Additional Editor for Parkwood Entertainment.