Shane Denson
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Analog vs digital glitch
I find it interesting that most of the clips assembled in your video use (or emulate) analog video glitches-- and here your suggestion that the technique evokes "a nostalgic yearning for media artifacts of days gone by" seems to make most sense. ... -
Datamoshing
Oh yes, that's beautiful-- and I was indeed thinking of datamoshing (as the purposeful intensification of compression artifacts) when I wrote my comment. I wasn't aware of Baron and Goodwin's work with THE SEARCHERS, though. Thanks for brin ... -
A propos
A propos faux analog glitches and the nostalgia they generate, there's a new app in the news today that takes VHS quality video (and, according to TechCrunch, crappy audio as well) using your iPhone camera (http://tcrn.ch/1WHlTBz). Commenter on Engad ... -
Beyond Nostalgia
I too am happy to see a phenomenological and affect-oriented approach to the glitch that is not interested in reducing it to nostalgia-- and the clarification above was helpful in terms of appreciating this. My own approach to post-cinema, both in terms o ... -
The Horror of Incoherence
Thanks for this post, Laura, which raises an interesting question about the relations between found footage and anthology formats, and about the affective tensions and confluences between them. As I mentioned yesterday, one of the things I found most intr ... -
Crazy Cameras
I agree with you that it would be unfair-- and maybe just wrong, in terms of assessing the impact of the film-- to dismiss the anachronism as a gaffe. It seems better to see it, as you suggest, in terms of a technique that is central to the uncanniness of ... -
Immersed / dispersed
This is a really interesting question. Am I right to read an implicit opposition here between immersed vs. dispersed modes of engagement, attention, perception, etc.? If so, how do you think these line up with our awareness of a film's (or scene' ... -
Complexities of Immersion
I think I agree with what's coming out of this discussion about the complexities of immersion/dispersion and embodiment, self-reflexivity, knowledge, etc. There are certainly a lot of possible permutations, and they would seem to be highly dependent ... -
Another quote
Here's another quote that I could have/should have worked into the video essay-- this one's from Caetlin Benson-Allott's_Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens_: "The spectator’s identification with the diegetic camera and cameraperson exp ... -
Hyperinformatic Video Essay
I also wanted to say a word or two about the video essay itself, which derives from some work I started at the NEH workshop on "Scholarship in Sound & Image" this past June (http://sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/). Originally, I had plan ...