Film Taken 2008 | [top]

We watch that footage now with a sense of vertigo. We are seeing the last humans who existed without an algorithm in their peripheral vision.

When I digitize old tapes from 2008, I look for the mistakes . The accidental pan to the sun that flares the lens. The moment the microphone picks up the wind and distorts the audio. film taken 2008

There is a specific alchemy to footage shot in the late aughts. We usually categorize film history by decades—the grainy 70s, the neon 80s, the glossy 90s. But I want to argue for a specific year: We watch that footage now with a sense of vertigo

2008 film is the opposite of sterile. It is defective. It has gate weave. It has focus pulls that miss the mark. It has the 60hz hum of a CRT television in the background. The accidental pan to the sun that flares the lens

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