Order 'Glitch Movies by Michael Betancourt' on Blu-Ray
Michael Betancourt is a Glitch Art pioneer who began manipulating digital errors in 1990. This collection surveys his HD movies.
These movies have shown in film festivals, art fairs, and galleries internationally, influencing the use of glitches in popular culture (such as in the title sequence to Amazon's sci-fi program The Expanse).
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
Betancourt's work as a theorist and historian of these digital artifacts makes this collection of interest to anyone engaged with contemporary digital art and culture.
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
Betancourt's work as a theorist and historian of these digital artifacts makes this collection of interest to anyone engaged with contemporary digital art and culture.
Libraries and institutional purchases should select the $50 bundle that includes both the Blu-Ray and an Institutional/Educational presentation license. If you only want to watch privately at home, you do not need to purchase the bundle.
2012 – 2017 • 75 minutes • USA
English • 16:9 • color / stereo • Blu-Ray zones ABC
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
False Colors, Brightly Seen
+ Special Bonus Movies
This collection is only available for purchase in the United States, and is a limited production run of 100 copies.
Shipping is via USPO Priority Mail.
2012 – 2017 • 75 minutes • USA
English • 16:9 • color / stereo • Blu-Ray zones ABC
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
False Colors, Brightly Seen
+ Special Bonus Movies
This collection is only available for purchase in the United States, and is a limited production run of 100 copies.
Shipping is via USPO Priority Mail.