Michael Betancourt is a Glitch Art pioneer who began manipulating digital errors in 1990. This collection surveys his HD movies.
"Going Somewhere is frequently breathtakingly beautiful.... In Betancourt’s hands, datamoshing becomes a form of cultural resistance. Instead of utilizing the smooth, illusionistic motion of digital cinema which you would typically see in a commercial movie theater, he deliberately pulls apart the codes and exploits its errors to deconstruct the movies and show us how they do their tricks. He pulls apart the narrative tropes of Sci Fi at the same time that he literally pulls apart the pictures, pixel by pixel, creating a radically open form which resists the hypnotic myth-making of Hollywood." — David Finkelstein
"The glitch creates abrupt insertions and interferences, with intrusive fragments of images that seem out of place or come from other moments, earlier or later, belonging to the same narrative. Through the failure, whether fortuitous or induced, the trick is exposed; we still perceive movement, but we understand that it is only real in our mind." — José Manuel García Perera
This collection includes 10 glitch movies: Going Somewhere (all 6 episodes) • The Dogs of Space The Kodak Moment • Dancing Glitch • The Dark Rift Rey Parlá Orders Pizza • Contact Light • Antag|Protag Beware of Boredom • and False Colors, Brightly Seen
English • 16:9 • color / stereo 2012 – 2017 • 75 minutes • USA
A blueray disk of Glitch Art pioneer Michael Betancourt's movies, including all 6 episodes of Going Somewhere, The Kodak Moment, and the Dark Rift.
This is an unnumbered limited edition of 100 copies that comes shrink wrapped with a "Broken By Design" sticker on the package.
Universal encoding — plays in zones A, B and C.