Tatum’s Ghost

A super condensed re-edit of an Unsolved Mysteries episode where cutaways become the stars and real and imagined YouTube comments mingle together and compete with the original content. The comments on YouTube are my favorite part of that video viewing experience. I love the way they flop so gracefully between cruel and shallow, deep and kind. Strange and wandering they construct dialogs and narratives along an incredibly modular path and expand the viewing of any video, making the medium necessarily interactive. —Stephanie Barber