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<strong>Glitch</strong> <strong>Aesthetics</strong><br />

<strong>Iman</strong> <strong>Moradi</strong><br />

be gone when we convert to a digital camera” (Kennedy, 2002). 29<br />

3.1.7. Relation to Screen: Film<br />

There are three main aspects to the use of <strong>Glitch</strong>-alikes on screen, to convey<br />

meaning or emotion, subliminate or to faithfully reproduce a particular film style.<br />

Films 30<br />

The meanings or emotions implied when a <strong>Glitch</strong>-alike is used in a film, are<br />

numerous. It could even be argued that the glitch’s emotional appeal lies in the<br />

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Perhaps Spielberg is referring very accurate, high resolution digital cameras. As it can be argued that<br />

today’s digital film has a grain of its own with its low resolution, compression artefacts and jaggedly<br />

aliasing of curves. <strong>–</strong> In 2003, at a DRU Huddersfield seminar, when I spoke to Alexei Shulgin he<br />

mentioned his past experiences in photography and personal appreciation of camera glitches as well.<br />

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Many thanks to Tristan Spill, of tristanspill.com for pointing me in the right direction and reminding me<br />

of all these glitches that I’d taken for granted.<br />

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