Image of the day. Errant Pleasures of Watching Film on Digital Video

Written by Daniel Kasman

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While skipping around looking for a scene from Raoul Walsh's Gun Fury (1953) I found this nice collage of artifact corruption which entwines an image of Phil Carey roping Donna Reed with an image of a Donna Reed being roped by Phil Carey.  Cinematography by Lester H. White.

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  • mr pumpernickel

    It’s art jim but not as we know it.

  • KarstenM

    This fascinating visual error/look was explored in the brilliant music video for Norwegian artist Sprutbass’s song “Ulykke”. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpNVMnP5gmQ

  • Ben Simington

    Thanks for the link Karsten…this needs to happen more.

  • Daniel Kasman

    I saw a film at TIFF a couple years ago that basically exhibited a copy of Maya Deren’s MESHES that had been only partially torrented, which resulted in a kind of tiling-animation effect that wiped and revealed layers of dreams.

  • Matthias Galvin

    and that’s why you don’t use VLC

  • Traumas

    I saw a film at the Norwegian short film festival that uses this effect wonderfully, called Long Live the New Flesh.

    http://www.kortfilmfestivalen.no/film/2010/Long-Live-the-New-Flesh?lang=en

    It takes its clips for various horror movies like the Shining, American Psyco and Videodrome and blends them into a organic mesh of gore and tension.

  • KarstenM

    Traumas: Yeah, I also saw that one – brilliant stuff. Nicolas Provost is a very exciting filmmaker by the way. More here: http://www.nicolasprovost.com/

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