

Shoot some video footage, dig around your computer for old footage you shot, or try to find some cool copyright-free footage (). Here's your challange, if you choose to accept it. That process can be a bit complicated, so there are a few easier options you can try with editing software, like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro. There are a lot of YouTube video tutorials that walk you though scrambling and altering the video data through programs such as Audacity, (google "datamosh"). Although you can't exactly tape mothwings onto video codecs or pixels, you can mess with the image in various ways. Today, digital video is the most common medium for making movies. The end result is a strangely mesmerizing show of colors, shapes, and textures that tell a unique story. In it he applied natural elements, such as leaves and moth wings, directly to the film.

"Mothlight" (1963), is one of his most well-known experimental films. Stan Brakhage was a well-known experimental filmmaker who frequently incorporated cameraless animation into his short films. After that, you'd thread it up in a projector and see what images show up on the big screen.

You could scratch the film, draw on it, paint on it, or even tape stuff on it. People could (and still can) take film of any sort, be it processed, negative, clear, etc, and physically alter it.

One version was called "cameraless animation". Back in the day of film, there were many analogue versions of Glitch Art, as it were. Glitch Art is deliberately destroying a video (or photo!) to see what happens and how the meaning has changed. ( What? You've never used a VCR? Okay.)ĭon't you hate it when you drop your iPhone and it shatters the glass and ruins the pixels on the screen, leaving colored geometric shapes under broken glass that make it hard to read that Buzzfeed article your friend posted on Facebook? Don't you hate it when you leave a giant magnet on your VHS of Jurassic Park, and find that it warped the images when you try to play it in your VCR?
