#  @TelevisualWord Televisual Word | Film Blog & Aesthetics Televisual Word | Film Blog & Aesthetics posts on X about vimeo, art, twitter, youtube the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1446240285546237959/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] +490% - [--] Month [------] +1,859% - [--] Months [------] +205% - [--] Year [------] +328% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1446240285546237959/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -78% - [--] Month [--] +163% - [--] Months [--] +1.50% - [--] Year [---] +176% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1446240285546237959/followers)  - [--] Week [---] +2.90% - [--] Month [---] +31% - [--] Months [---] +51% - [--] Year [---] +184% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1446240285546237959/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [social networks](/list/social-networks) [countries](/list/countries) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [gaming](/list/gaming) [finance](/list/finance) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [musicians](/list/musicians) **Social topic influence** [vimeo](/topic/vimeo) #39, [art](/topic/art), [twitter](/topic/twitter), [youtube](/topic/youtube), [odyssey](/topic/odyssey), [frame](/topic/frame), [movies](/topic/movies), [japan](/topic/japan), [china](/topic/china), [shot](/topic/shot) **Top assets mentioned** [Treasure (MAGIC)](/topic/treasure) [Mario Coin (COIN)](/topic/mario) [Dale (DALE)](/topic/dale) [BlackRock Inc (BLK)](/topic/blackrock) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [Union Pacific Corporation (UNP)](/topic/union-pacific) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Dante = industrious spontaneous witty responsible control of his power -- even before aging & further maturing Donte = hedonist mean-spirited resentful (even bullying weak innocent fat guy bouncer) apathetic (slurred speech nagged into doing good)" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1674515433565585410) 2023-06-29T20:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Even infamous DMC2 Dante while not as charismatic & vitalistic as in the other canon media was a pained hero more than a navel-gazing antihero Moral sacrificed for the weak & innocent never whined had self-control reassured others in distress etc" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1674518807807774720) 2023-06-29T20:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Mathilukal / The Wall (1990) This Indian film follows a political prisoner considering if his actions have any merit & if it's possible to put life into perspective when circumstances change so much Kudos to @college_kumaran for the rec 📽Watch here👇" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1679986158627872771) 2023-07-14T22:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Barry Lyndon (1975) An Irish outcast nervously climbs social ladders of 1700s England yet fails to truly integrate & get along Stanley Kubrick shows an ornate setting his outsider never comprehends or fits into even while ingratiating & exploiting increasingly skeptical hosts" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1699917588908609567) 2023-09-07T22:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "RIP Buichi Terasawa. His works of art were genre pulps as creative & free as dreams. Cobra Goku Midnight Eye etc -- all a blast Strange coincidence I posted these screenshots from the gorgeous Space Adventure Cobra movie exactly one year ago 09/11/22" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1701468817107419417) 2023-09-12T05:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "In addition to being vilely antiwhite -- and therefore a fan of Scorsese's "White people evil" guilt-tripping -- this Blumhouse exec gets basic production history wrong. The disingenuous portrayal of Whites in American History X wasn't directed by a White" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1716638138511007744) 2023-10-24T02:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@revenant_MMXX Feels Reddit Youre just throwing out loaded phrases & talking like Where does Link keep all that stuff Checkmate instead of making a case. Resistance knows Breen caused the RC Gordon prevented the Xen rift & the other staff are capable survivors/eager necessary allies" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1754221240187756651) 2024-02-04T19:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Thief: The Dark Project (1998) Stealth game opus following a skilled loner larcenist entangled in dark plots Medieval fantasy where man desperately vies to survive a world of shadows; treasures to save civilization or pay rent hide in brutalist castles & nightmarish pits 1" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1755735079844802990) 2024-02-08T23:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Hypnosis Display (2014 Paul Clipson) Your favourite experimental film in a single image. I'll start. https://t.co/wDvaBUoDRS Your favourite experimental film in a single image. I'll start. https://t.co/wDvaBUoDRS" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1765185914857275426) 2024-03-06T01:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@UpdateTheGrids Jean Luc-Godard once had an interview with Woody Allen (whose idea of movies as essentially an extension of literature did not agree with JLG's more visual approach) & made it yet more standoffish by editing it into a proto-YouTube Poop. Meetin' WA (1986) is free on Dailymotion" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1775234563133906950) 2024-04-02T18:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@accursedfarms Commenting for that little extra algo boost; I recommend others do similarly on here & other social media. You're doing God's work Ross" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1775247780740518163) 2024-04-02T19:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Rehearsals forRetirement (2007) Phil Solomon was a master of recontextualizing archival & home-video footage into experimental odysseys; he made "machinemas" with equal skill Filmed in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas this short appreciates virtual space & texture" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1789050340274254235) 2024-05-10T21:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Last Days in a Lonely Place (2007) The only entry of Phil Solomon's "In Memoriam" GTA: San Andreas series to be shot in black & white Audio from The Twilight Zone & other classic media further mystifies atmosphere somewhere between vintage & digital: beautiful virtual purgatory" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1789800705156329982) 2024-05-12T23:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "A variety of computer rooms from Resident Evil 5: hydroponics for poisonous plants security station boat instrument station medical lab All of these are in essence "a small space with metal walls & a lot of CRT monitors" but attention to detail fairly differentiates each one" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1789804755050463567) 2024-05-12T23:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Jean Epstein specialized in documenting small-town struggles but ramped up the spectral imagery for this Edgar Allan Poe movie Gothic delirium sees early use of many innovative camera techniques as texture & shorthands for psychological states" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1791298039153369440) 2024-05-17T02:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Resident Evil [--] (1998) from the Leon A campaign Can be surprisingly bright & colorful fear relying less on uncertainty in lighting so much as uncertainty in space: close quarters blind corners fixed camera angles that roughly simulate short-sightedness in long stretches etc" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1793324243456758026) 2024-05-22T16:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Elohemian The classic RE games in the PS2/GameCube generation definitely did put more advanced lighting to use yes. What I'm saying is that Capcom had good ways to work around on PS/before that newer tech such as the use of space as well as baking shading into the background textures" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1793368353199042810) 2024-05-22T19:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@kenshirotism Wikipedia's Hills Have Eyes (1977) page's "Political themes" section -- "Craven has said that the film expresses rage against American culture and the bourgeois44 " -- links to page [---] of this interview. But it CITES [---] pic below. Make what you will. https://books.google.com/booksid=Y2XnWv_K_EgC&q=hills+have+eyes+grapes+of+wrath&pg=PA217 https://books.google.com/booksid=Y2XnWv_K_EgC&q=hills+have+eyes+grapes+of+wrath&pg=PA217" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1795596352816345097) 2024-05-28T23:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@kenshirotism Though this doesn't necessarily mean the movie aims to be antiwhite much less that such a message is admirable in any case. Most interesting is that the likes of IPoS see violence against innocent White people & weaselly claim it's "to a degree" justified. Masks-off moment" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1795653955944657174) 2024-05-29T03:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Angel of Forms (2023) @RushnanJ takes nocturnal experimental films to distinctly 3D space; when in motion the POV here eerily glides forward & backward in a phantasmagoric realm Sights of light drift away crawl upon surfaces & dart toward the screen with ghostly liquidity" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1797035418602422738) 2024-06-01T22:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@samrith31 Most of Jon Jost's movies are available on his official Vimeo page so you can find his work & support him there: https://vimeo.com/jonjost/vod_pages https://vimeo.com/jonjost/vod_pages" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1800662993723904462) 2024-06-11T22:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@joeviewtiful22 As far as an ever more international Mario goes Super Mario Odyssey is the clearest example but there have been bits of this in other works such as Wonder as you describe too. Good fit for this aesthetic; Mario is surprisingly flexible as long as it's "good-natured fun"" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1802831368847606158) 2024-06-17T22:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@joeviewtiful22 Capcom's Haunting Ground/Demento added to the Clock Tower style of horror an ambitious (but patience-testing) AI dog that you "train" through repeated command-context associations kinda like The Last Guardian Soundtrack is killer too https://youtu.be/AWUcoL0PXn8 https://youtu.be/AWUcoL0PXn8" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1807204829711995349) 2024-06-30T00:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Half-Life: Delta Particles (2024) One of the greatest HL1 mods. Arsenal is vast yet has ammo limits that challenge the player to be diverse in approaches. Level design (which reminded me of Chasm: The Rift) has strong space in horizontal & vertical planes. Roughly as long as HL1" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1808581319078600866) 2024-07-03T19:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "G String (2020) Fascinating HL2 total conversion with astoundingly detailed environs. Heart-of-darkness odyssey in a cyberpunk hellscape that disorients with sheer accumulation & decontextualization of its decayed gaudy architecture. Highly ambitious for @eyaura & her small team" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1824506054404628531) 2024-08-16T17:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@GinglesMr When you go to the basement in Resident Evil 7" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1824933158732861598) 2024-08-17T22:15Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Thief: The Black Parade (2023) An apex achievement in virtual architecture & heart-of-darkness descents POV of a desperate treasure hunter allows for spatial perspectives that highlight our fascination with the dark fantastical & forbidden like few other artworks have 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1824986628252631336) 2024-08-18T01:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "2 While this modification of a late-90s video game may not be the most visually realistic virtual space it's one of the most thoughtfully detailed to entail a tangible sense of age & inhabitance" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1824987942747603419) 2024-08-18T01:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "3 And what adds to Thief: The Black Parade's power is that beyond being a massive accumulation of amazing sights the level design balances openness & continuity to put these sights in relation to each other These four screenshots are all from the same map (no extra loading)" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1824989750928748869) 2024-08-18T02:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Le Cercle Rouge (1970) Alain Delon Gian Volont & Yves Montand rob a bank as a virile act in their ghostly de-rooted lives Jean-Pierre Melville directs denying reprieve; lengthy desperate escapes & meticulous planning grant only fleeting moments of beauty still worth emerging" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1825267586432655667) 2024-08-18T20:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@joeviewtiful22 Your point about GG is true but that chart was fake. Besides girls don't mind & may even tag along as long as one's well-balanced & socially skilled Hobby is an issue only if over-centered/hurting other personal facets -- or if one's anxious to share & "defend it" to her frame" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1826019560660652050) 2024-08-20T22:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@N3FASTIS Equally as VHS-core as vaporwave ethereality is (if to a very different end) Directed by Stanley Tong the director of Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx & the Supercop movies" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1826385786931216706) 2024-08-21T22:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Eight Taels of Gold (1989) Mabel Cheung directs arguably Sammo Hung's finest performance. An expat who fled the disastrous Cultural Revolution returns to China to impress rural family & friends by appearing rich. But he realizes how rootless he is & how his home's been upended" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1827060553669337529) 2024-08-23T19:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Central Park [--] are model citizens of the modern West *because* they harm Whites hence the legal lenience & political rewards Netflix/DNC's hagiography welcomes more violence against Whites denying victims of antiwhiteism a platform to tell their stories https://x.com/wanyeburkett/status/1826820691200487836 Just in the first [--] minutes of this he puts the video interviews of suspects in the park that night up against footage from the Netflix show. In the show the kids are playful and laughing. They are a little aggressive with some cyclists patting them on the back as they bike" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1827074478586601692) 2024-08-23T20:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@joeviewtiful22 @bog_beef Walter Hill is an often great & emotionally charged director. He also did The Warriors (no intro needed) & The Driver (inspiration for the Ryan Gosling movie with a similar name) Little to no condescension in representing masculine vitality & urban energy" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1827874931440320821) 2024-08-26T01:05Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Chekist (1992) Members of CHEKA Lenin's real-life secret police establish a brutal & efficient process for killing opposition to the communist state in droves But the routine wears on the minds of its executors who uneasily cope or seek escape unwilling to object 📽On YT👇" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1828228707313471842) 2024-08-27T00:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@angeldevenganza @FrenchOG3 This is the way brilliant to not only fog/spin the premise but also incorporate setting up date logistics always-be-closing Though FUN frame control like this requires more skill than just fleeing & making a (demoralizing) fashion statement to try to impress Twitter followers" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1831059007618097327) 2024-09-03T19:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "All is Light (2022) Short by @Eggzzie34 applying his affinity for shadows & lights as well as particle fields to the "flicker film" Double-exposures & strobes unite elements & emulate our eyes' perceiving afterimages moving in sync/contrast to what's directly seen 📽On Vimeo👇" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1834292545553138038) 2024-09-12T18:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "All is Light (2022) and several other works by Baker Ahmed/@Eggzzie34 can be seen for free on his official Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/734867877autoplay=1&muted=1&contextual=viewer_home&stream_id=Y2xpcHN8MTY1NTQxMTM5fGlkOmRlc2N8eyJyZW1vdmVfdm9kX3RpdGxlcyI6ZmFsc2V9 https://vimeo.com/734867877autoplay=1&muted=1&contextual=viewer_home&stream_id=Y2xpcHN8MTY1NTQxMTM5fGlkOmRlc2N8eyJyZW1vdmVfdm9kX3RpdGxlcyI6ZmFsc2V9" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1834292935514378639) 2024-09-12T18:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (2010) Two crooks with few admirable traits save for ever-enduring survival instinct must shoot their way out of a Shanghai manhunt Brutal camcorder presentation nightmarish electronic ambience & essentialist gunplay forcing careful movement & coop 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1838727701676294399) 2024-09-24T23:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "K&L2 blasts electronic dissonance in gritty slummy and/or gaudy locales to emphasize utterly unaccommodating urbanity Players interact in little more than core shooting & sprinting eschewing gimmicks in favor of tactical synch timing cover & approaches in multifaceted arenas" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1838730823513538999) 2024-09-25T00:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@davo_arid Whoa that's so persuasive now I wish all those murderers rapists & so on were still alive leeching off my tax dollars Or better yet allowed to strike again just to be even more of a shining example of how holy it is of us to not execute "a particularly callous psychopath."" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1839008606944895240) 2024-09-25T18:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Sense of Architecture (2009) Heinz Emigholz's epic documentary showcases modern Austrian buildings from the kindergarten to the crematorium in a sort of chronological trek Spaces are established at a cityscape distance then redefined by closeups & sprinklings of activity 1" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1855036633273319487) 2024-11-08T23:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "2 Sense of Architecture (2009) as well as Heinz Emigholz movies in general exhibit a curious approach to space Unconventional angles emulate tilted glimpses of places of a POV moving through them as opposed to the neutrality of encompassing wide shots alone Watch on Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1855038843918905654) 2024-11-09T00:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@augureust @PMCEurokyne @engeignos Many obscure movies (including out-of-print or even works with no official release whatsoever) on thanks to users such as: Though one may need to use Jdownloader to save an offline file & then get an .srt from Opensubtitles as opposed to watching on-site. https://letterboxd.com/shenanigance/list/oedipus-rex-upload/ https://letterboxd.com/shenanigance/list/oedipus-rex-upload/" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1857938494699565143) 2024-11-17T00:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@augureust It's good & arguably for the best that HL2 release had a nigh-quotidian tangible aesthetic Establishes tone from space being arranged even without fantasy parts a more sensitive skill/pleasure to train designers Plus there are old-build fan projects: https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1826374336472891564 Raising the Bar: Reloaded (WIP) Ambitious fan project recreating scrapped ideas from the legendary Half-Life [--] beta files Incomplete but so far a lengthy & richly detailed trek in the spirit of the original colorful yet rivalling HL2 in terms of harsh texturing & nocturnality" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1858386650679714116) 2024-11-18T05:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@RichardJuice I think the way these things work is that someone makes a cryptocurrency themed around a meme & then makes the meme inorganically popular by paying large accounts to post in order to raise the value of said crypto" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1863002828425314579) 2024-11-30T23:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@rose_phantasm Great stuff; I daresay "Unseen Abyss" is a top [--] Final Fantasy battle track" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1863004397615161360) 2024-11-30T23:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Animal (1976) Vaguely menacing landscape-centric drama in which a couple meet & are pulled apart with equal mysteriousness Eerie ellipses in remote Vermont forests entail a primal confusion images & events ghostly & uncertain Free in HD on director Walter Ungerer's Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1863333283196436619) 2024-12-01T21:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Karl May (1974) A 1900s German novelist convinced many that his fictional adventures were real Strain (including IP suits) with his people led him to blur fantasy & reality to determine what of himself he could/should redefine On demand alongside other Syberberg films at Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1863746587748364288) 2024-12-03T00:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@GalloRespecter That's some impressive fidelity on the 2000s flip-phone camera" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1866258898346254778) 2024-12-09T23:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@augureust Jurgen Reble similarly presented such footage with Chemical Intervention in (Film) History on his site here: See also David Morrison Phil Solomon Steven Broomer Al Razutis Paolo Gioli Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi -- on YT Vimeo VK etc https://www.filmalchemist.de/films/chemical_intervention.html https://www.filmalchemist.de/films/chemical_intervention.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1870301331337912641) 2024-12-21T02:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Struggle (1931) D.W. Griffith's final work sees a family man whose agreeableness makes him well-loved at first yet vulnerable to addiction Biograph-style staging & progression of sets meets considered dialogue as DWG shows how good intentions can be soured & hard to redeem" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1870610650797658541) 2024-12-21T23:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Struggle (1931) Many moments where characters (not only the addicted protag) do or say something that betrays past bonds showing remorse but knowing that something has been lessened & finding that intent in the moment isn't enough to correct course by itself" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1870611600409051425) 2024-12-21T23:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Journey to the Caucasus and Persia (1910) Mario Piacenza was a mountain climber who documented impressive ascents & this slice of ethnography Lanes of activity as well as varying aesthetics & degrees of development emphasized Available on the amazing Cineteca MNC Vimeo channel" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1875721836945928637) 2025-01-05T01:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@college_kumaran Such sensitivity is largely left to independents in obscure corners of Vimeo etc such as Scott Barley & Toby Tatum Also worth noting that Lynch managed to eke some remarkable images post-funding & Herzog's Fire Within recontextualized the pre-existing. Hope Andrey heals up too" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1880027660908363949) 2025-01-16T23:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Straight Story (1999) David Lynch's self-professed "most experimental" film is a biopic of elderly Alvin Straight's journeying hundreds of miles on tractor to reconnect with his dying estranged brother Ordinary incidents carry grand significance as townsfolk reflect on time" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1880038158584435005) 2025-01-16T23:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "mergences (2004) Philippe Cote made movies of landscapes textures & everything in between His most microscopic & abstract is this series of painted filmstrips. Akin to Brakhage but paced gingerly enough to let one soak in more detail per frame as opposed to a blitz Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1896759271980716113) 2025-03-04T03:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Undergrowth (2011) Robert Todd explores forest floors not far from civilization anchoring the perspective into the eyes of an owl hunting for prey Recalls The Ground by Robert Beavers for its tense cross-cutting from environs to bodies expanding into dark ambience On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1902836669516222639) 2025-03-20T21:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@VenomSnack "Players" copies sold. Inflated by Ubisoft Plus too. And launch on Steam was about 25k players 40k the day after. Of course [--] player is too many but don't fall for the blackpills AND don't even give hate attention and it'll likely quietly sputter out completely" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1902905373842899262) 2025-03-21T02:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Arc of Spring (2015) Robert Todd observes the span of springtime from the thawing of winter snow to the fullness of summer bloom with traces of relevant human activity along the way A spectrum of not only the core of the subject but also its bookending gradients On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1903235082363736236) 2025-03-21T23:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "A Ladder (2025) Weightless buoyancy allows excited particles to float their way to a speckled cosmos in the latest by @ScottBarleyFilm Some of the most marvelous digital black-&-white out there with even artifacts & gradients contributing to a sense of layered depth On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1905099439947063619) 2025-03-27T03:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Trisskia3 (2013) Nick Collins has been quietly making some of the best short movies of recent decades This look into a ruined Byzantine church in Greece sees a tension between man's shaping of nature & time's reclamation result in marvelous images of their own right On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1907843948736922043) 2025-04-03T17:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@sethsfilmreview Pretty much anything by Paul Clipson is up there. https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1581743247134961664 Hypnosis Display (2014) The late great Paul Clipson's feature-length odyssey of sights from the natural into the metropolitan Arguably experimental film at its most accessible & sensual; images overlap & associate in an instinctual aesthetic 📽Watch👇 https://t.co/mcoej1A0Wj https://t.co/WwEm8E1EUk https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1581743247134961664 Hypnosis Display (2014) The late great Paul Clipson's feature-length odyssey of sights from the natural into the" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1908274361808683284) 2025-04-04T21:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The White Winged (2002) Iranian claymation short by Abdollah Alimorad with details wondrous & grim alike to teach its moral Two beautiful herons weathering a difficult drought must choose whether or not to resort to a suspicious yet sheltered haven to easily survive On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1908968484291100734) 2025-04-06T19:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Sanday (1988) Nick Collins documents the titular one of Scotland's Orkney islands in four segments An optical printer gives an especially archaic texture to this ancient landscape; brings to mind Peter Hutton (Skagafjrdur) by ways of Phil Solomon (Remains to be Seen) On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1909031995209822411) 2025-04-06T23:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "River of Fire [--] & [--] (2018) Tim Cawkwell was one of the best yet unsung filmmakers of the British avant-garde Light Years is his magnum opus but his digital gems include a watery diptych discovering a variety of awes by zooming into different parts of the same frames On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1914442720988323878) 2025-04-21T22:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Happy tenth anniversary of the release of Environmental Station Alpha one of the best & most mysterious metroidvanias: https://youtu.be/kCV1pCG9UoQ https://youtu.be/kCV1pCG9UoQ" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1914868299696951307) 2025-04-23T02:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@alpinespirits Glad to hear you're doing better. Don't feel a need to push yourself too hard though; sometimes taking some time to feed your inspiration can be as creatively fruitful as relentlessly being in the field. And your drawings & CRT experiments are cool pastimes in the meantime too" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1916994075477057725) 2025-04-28T23:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Enclosures (2007) Arianne Olthaar makes nigh-uninhabited architecture movies of images akin to those of the liminal-space movement This eerie piece peers at primate areas that had not yet been renovated to better reflect their natural environs: odd habitat abstraction On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1922055064203526163) 2025-05-12T22:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Valletta (1985) One of the most literally experimental by Nick Collins Shadowy images already delectable in their own right become even more spectral as it turns out we're seeing projections upon other projections & unstable canvasses On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1922058300864045175) 2025-05-12T22:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "StandardGauge (1986) Morgan Fisher who worked on some Roger Corman productions & edited Messiah of Evil shares movie industry insights Film strips illustrate design principles -- color grading time measurement etc -- while being curious in the abstract On Ubu (dot) com" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1923527325955522619) 2025-05-16T23:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@joeviewtiful22 As another comment mentioned VR games have largely filled in that tactile niche for new releases. I'll add that VR has also been the go-to for preserving the classics by (imperfectly) approximating the sensation in bizarre nostalgic simulated spaces: https://youtu.be/bRzcWDGR61g https://youtu.be/bRzcWDGR61g" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1924587102429126919) 2025-05-19T22:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Tonalli (2021) Los Ingrvidos are a Mexican artistic collective with an especial interest in paleo aesthetics sometimes with a polemic angle This short loosely recreates war rituals with psychedelia spanning from ancient times to modern technique On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1927145508763468273) 2025-05-26T23:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The Temple of Conflagrated Shadows (2025) The latest by Baker Ahmed/@Eggzzie34 is a strong contender for movie of the year Shadowy particle strobes comparable to the lofty likes of Jrgen Reble Scott Barley & Peter Gidal yet a spatially & texturally distinct descent On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1927148759479160981) 2025-05-26T23:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Spirits in Season (2013) Steven Broomer document of New York's Lily Dale a spiritualist community with significant tourism in summer during a quiet autumn Spectral glowing & restless rustling from the camera leaf canopies & frozen-in-time memorabilia in front On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1928273643064217824) 2025-05-30T02:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The Dithering Veil (2025) Rushnan Jaleel follows up The Angel of Forms (now public on Vimeo & YT) with this tribute to Joseph Bernard Everyday sights of people & nature filtered through digital haze that makes every light & recognizable form that much more vivid of a vestige" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1930087978027581761) 2025-06-04T02:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Schwebebahn (2016) Arianne Olthaar short recorded on public transit gliding over nighttime cityscapes Demonstration of various views along a continual path the camera angling with movement & finding unique compositions via architectural space & light On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1930769146322489673) 2025-06-05T23:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "I think that while vanilla PC K&L2 is a great-looking game in itself a noise filter (which was present on the console releases but missing on PC) adds coherence & gradience to the lighting. Here are some comparisons of similar screenshots from base vs the Liveleak preset:" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1931105385445814300) 2025-06-06T21:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "I highly value level design so I like how K&L2's spartan mechanics & lack of sniping options necessitate careful positioning. No easy fallbacks even with the camera=gun trick. And Extreme makes each individual within the hordes of enemies a likely one-hit-killer even at range" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1931109319677989333) 2025-06-06T22:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@sideshowRaheem @JFrankensteiner "Let us invade & burn down your neighborhoods or you're a bootlicker"" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1932106404627620020) 2025-06-09T16:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Pools (2024) Eerie "walking sim" trek based on a liminal-space craze. Short (likely under [--] hours in a sprint) but environs offer high quality for those into the aesthetic & game photography/screenshotting. Striking audio/visuals in this vaguely unsettling layered voyage 1/X" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1934784214664085973) 2025-06-17T01:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@uncommnephemera If you want your account to be more visible to others reply under the posts of larger accounts more. Not asking them for anything just whatever compliment or insight comes to mind upon seeing a good post. Also add " Film Strip Preservation" to handle so interest is piqued" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1935856695856480605) 2025-06-20T00:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@BasedMikeLee Enough of this vague "Marxist or not" paradigm. How about "for or against the well-being of White people" Why should we suffer dispossession of our homelands so Blackrock & China can construct blocs when you should expel the invaders taking away our homes Why do you hate us" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1935890283272753388) 2025-06-20T02:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@artenpedia I don't know if it's the intent but images where multiple states of matter -- wobbly clouds ponds mounds -- all share some similarity in shape suggests to me a sort of universality of things different modes of the same fundamental stuff. Yet the red dress contrasts as human" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1935894319971680703) 2025-06-20T02:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@novusolus Just scrolling through that site is a great way to find lost treasure. Incidentally I recommend Cryostasis especially since I gather that it's going to get even tougher to run on future Nvidia hardware. I had to install uninstall reinstall some drivers but it was worth it" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1937612842850746454) 2025-06-24T20:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@kenshirotism Great thread TAL. Also worth noting that Pirate either outright lies about Ross's "The end of Stop Killing Games" video or slips that he didn't pay attention -- bc he claims it covers only PS's deleted streams when it also cover his equally bad main vids: https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1937966802048585950 https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1937966802048585950" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1937980838697681213) 2025-06-25T21:06Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "https://vimeo.com/760967357 https://vimeo.com/760967357" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1938112837223678160) 2025-06-26T05:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Geekerchan @i_zzzzzz The oil field segments have some of the most astounding archive footage I've ever seen. Whole channel is a goldmine. Here's a direct link so put on some Omar Hound or something similarly atmospheric & check it out: https://vimeo.com/760967357 https://vimeo.com/760967357" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1938113118476894609) 2025-06-26T05:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@patrician_tv He knowingly lies too: PirateSoftware claims that he never took down his streams that falsely defamed Stop Killing Games that they were nuked by a glitch/on the part of the VOD holders. He lied. Source: "GAME DEV Q/A 💜 Go Make Games 📷 Heartbound Website TTS" 3hr 37min" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1938121170412331045) 2025-06-26T06:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@ALegendaryDrops Something sus to cover: PirateSoftware claims that he never took down his streams that falsely defamed Stop Killing Games that they were nuked by a glitch/on the part of the VOD holders. He lied. Source: "GAME DEV Q/A 💜 Go Make Games 📷 Heartbound Website TTS" 3hr 37min" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1938123125629084047) 2025-06-26T06:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "GitS2: Innocence especially leaned into the "architecture as biospiritual memory" angle But the first Oshii movie sets a precedent. These signs are indecipherable to most but they are storage for information & even resemble computer hardware addons https://x.com/HumanoidHistory/status/1936655433063624780 Streetscapes in GHOST IN THE SHELL. https://t.co/m7H30RbJvk https://x.com/HumanoidHistory/status/1936655433063624780 Streetscapes in GHOST IN THE SHELL. https://t.co/m7H30RbJvk" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1938322410584920141) 2025-06-26T19:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@JasonJMcCuiston Are there *any* good entries in this subgenre of fictionalized director biopics I haven't seen it but Pasolini by Abel Ferrara seems like the only promising one from recent years" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1938702933299790102) 2025-06-27T20:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SilentGarrett Spotify continuing to be likely the most corrupt distribution platform. Wouldn't surprise me if they were hacking accounts (any 2FA yet or still no) botting & doing some in-house shell-company chicanery like with Epidemic Sound to push such fakes for "growth" & self-payouts" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1938814873275920879) 2025-06-28T04:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "seven parts (2006) The short movies by Kyle Canterbury are microscopic ephemera that faintly flicker CRT light through muddled textures This one especially blurs film & digital as scanlines slice chemical debris; one of Canterbury's most varied as well Free on Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1939530411153277056) 2025-06-30T03:44Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@StagsFilm Been a while since I've seen TC but probably worth it even with some historical inaccuracies. Maybe try something shorter at "only" two hours with Union Pacific or Greatest Show on Earth first though. Especially The Sign of the Cross one of the nuttiest visions of ancient Rome" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1940120080156959156) 2025-07-01T18:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "A Video (2006) Likely the closest to a polemic that Kyle Canterbury has made. Footage of George W. Bush ultra-pixelated & zoomed into abstraction Hard to infer specific meaning but it illustrates how images can newly fascinate by highlighting/subtracting details Free on Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1940301571767902461) 2025-07-02T06:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@novusolus @wotancore I use an extension called "Control Panel for Twitter" that can remove sidebars such as Trending & even makes a tab dedicated to retweets instead of clogging other feeds with them. And while it doesn't matter to me there are options to mute all checkmarks. Highly recommended" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1940522691154661542) 2025-07-02T21:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Lights & Perfections (2006) An early Paul Clipson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma teamup and a high point in the work of both artists Clipson's camera floats into fields of flora in a varied yet blurred push; JCL holds ambient consistency & gently descends tones as the short ends" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1942009668798120261) 2025-07-06T23:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Mr_AMHM @accursedfarms I'd put something among the lines of this being a very popular consumer rights movement (easy approval for them) to have the industry not continue to put designed obsolescence in products we buy & to not fall for the industry saying this would be too hard to them to stop doing" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1942326337857020120) 2025-07-07T20:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@accursedfarms 1/2 For politician letters write something among the lines of this being a very popular consumer rights movement (easy approval for them) to have the industry not continue to put designed obsolescence in products we buy & to not fall for the industry saying this would be too hard" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1942354825233998198) 2025-07-07T22:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "19: Passage (2006) Kyle Canterbury zeroes in on a cathode ray tube monitor rephotographing imagery into flickering grain Surprising tempos house CRT textures & seemingly sees frames between frames of video data: minimalist shapes with soft detail upon inspection Free on Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1942392915021455545) 2025-07-08T01:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@cartographer_s Nest & flowerhead both round layered "incubators" of sorts from which flying creatures go to & from. Patterns in nature and yet the tabletop cornucopia is a distinctly human arrangement" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1942674589374636269) 2025-07-08T19:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Crystal (1988) Isao Yamada films portraits of people who whether actively navigating or appearing in new places in each shot are gazing wanderers Even shadows locations & mementos can be a portrait of a model (or its photographer) On the "Dream Excursion" DVD by RE:VOIR" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1942709605697786161) 2025-07-08T22:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "July (2006) Kyle Canterbury's initial wave of work (when he was 16/17 in '06) was ultra-abstract videography. But he also made more concrete pieces until his disappearance from filmmaking in '15 This is an early example of the latter style: protean digital clouding the familiar" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1943119527392235841) 2025-07-10T01:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@TaoistShelby See who likes your most obscure favorites see promising obscure films they like to acquire new ones repeat & narrow For popular classics with lots of riff-raff writeups read only friends & archive accounts. Cahiers Revista Contracampo etc. Harder for contemporaries though" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1943856461215674783) 2025-07-12T02:14Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Anc_Aesthetics That's a responsible law but moreover there's an underlying (evil) morality to hate/not care for White people that resulted in that law. When we replace that morality with a morality that values our people's wellbeing we'll have the foundation needed to end our victimization" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1943909592179581067) 2025-07-12T05:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Lowdown1776 @Anc_Aesthetics As in the law was responsible for bad things happening" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1944116491093520852) 2025-07-12T19:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Power of Speech (1988) Jean-Luc Godard demonstrates an early recognition of the power of video in this drama short financed by France Tlcom Human passions are contrasted to (and propagated by) new forms of technology creating new meanings in images by proximity On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1944141577758421455) 2025-07-12T21:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "https://vimeo.com/17869683 https://vimeo.com/17869683" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1944992626123395404) 2025-07-15T05:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "https://vimeo.com/191457901 https://vimeo.com/191457901" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1945188045516308804) 2025-07-15T18:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@luusssso I recently saw a cool Vimeo short demonstrating what it looks like to look at the city from that monorail train's window at night. https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1930769146322489673 Schwebebahn (2016) Arianne Olthaar short recorded on public transit gliding over nighttime cityscapes Demonstration of various views along a continual path the camera angling with movement & finding unique compositions via architectural space & light On Vimeo https://t.co/GzP9eMfPDW https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1930769146322489673 Schwebebahn (2016) Arianne Olthaar short recorded on public" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1945188355559280773) 2025-07-15T18:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Rear Window (1991) Ernie Gehr made one of his most expressionistic works in the wake of his father's death Whereas Side/Walk/Shuffle & Signal had striking concrete compositions this uses quick-cuts & blocking (including fingers) to search for the ephemeral anywhere On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1945213416009867333) 2025-07-15T20:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@JkstrHmstr Interesting Hard for me to pick one; I like the parts individually but seeing Ten Videos as a whole feels most right Incidentally "gift" & "giving taking" were what tipped me off to the theme of the screentears edits etc feeling body-like. Reminded me of Beavers's The Ground" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1945303878905348127) 2025-07-16T02:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Trip to the Sand Dunes (2009) Kyle Canterbury short which may have his most explicit foregrounding of framing devices -- as well as some of his loveliest imagery The video itself shows a CRT displaying the footage convex screen warmly reshaping & rebrightening memory On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1945569435156156638) 2025-07-16T19:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@alpinespirits I do fine just muting everything I don't want to see but there are browser addons -- I think Control Panel for Twitter has such a function -- that mute premium accounts altogether" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1945623965164052562) 2025-07-16T23:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "https://vimeo.com/134457676 https://vimeo.com/134457676" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1945633323637711325) 2025-07-16T23:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@JkstrHmstr Flip Mino HD -- thanks for mentioning that I'll keep the model in mind. I primarily use a Canon R100 (and some common instant film cameras) but have also been gathering old camcorders & such. Editing is great and all but I prefer to do as much in-camera as possible" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1945639065803493789) 2025-07-17T00:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Anc_Aesthetics "White erasure" -- that term covers so many of the dangers & victimization we're facing. Nothing abstract or general about it; traitors & intruders are gunning for us specifically. And let's not let Trump's "just White-erase the most skilled H1B positions" slide either" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1947818871731142695) 2025-07-23T00:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@PolyDepression These are some lovely shots did you make them yourself Reminds me of Phil Solomon likely the best to ever do it in this vein: https://youtu.be/BY5TBKfEIWQlist=PL324e-c9CXD2-dHaRhZS5f023aYH6-XKQ https://youtu.be/BY5TBKfEIWQlist=PL324e-c9CXD2-dHaRhZS5f023aYH6-XKQ" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1948127400149029230) 2025-07-23T21:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@GalloRespecter Grunge might make a road trip too potently melancholic compared to shoegaze acoustics or warm lo-fi. But if you do go that route Deftones as well as Failure are great options. https://youtu.be/JtkOBzieen4list=OLAK5uy_mf5CVy35rXraviBKgh8Of9qv3PICfx_eY https://youtu.be/JtkOBzieen4list=OLAK5uy_mf5CVy35rXraviBKgh8Of9qv3PICfx_eY" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1957187464696660255) 2025-08-17T21:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@GalloRespecter "Wrath" by Iris is also a great moodier roadtrip album. And there's a Korean fellow on YouTube -- Music Lover Hwang Sang Woo -- who puts out breezy feel-good mixes on an almost daily basis. Amazing gold mine for melodic rock city pop ballads etc https://youtu.be/M8CCL5Cf3T4 https://youtu.be/M8CCL5Cf3T4" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1957191107327991973) 2025-08-17T21:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@GalloRespecter Failure -- In the Future. Nmesh -- Cloud [--] Ed Harrison -- Neotokyo Demetori/UI-70 -- view of spiral riverside Opal Vessel -- Trilogy -- Fragmented Memories Ryu Umemoto -- Yu-No PC-98 Naked Flames -- Wall I Was Omar Hound -- . desert sand. --" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1957208614252253258) 2025-08-17T22:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@novusolus I dunno about these specifically -- I think I muted 'em all before against-my-will factoid-osmosis -- but this type doesn't have to be married to be like that. Well they don't have to be married to a woman anyway. They're certainly "married" to & wanna impress male followers" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1958577253844947414) 2025-08-21T17:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@novusolus I was watching some magnificent short movies (Kyle Canterbury iirc) on Vimeo & got autoplay-flashbanged by an ugly mean-spirited cringe comedy titled "Tea." Former had [---] views/4 likes on average after a decade; latter was screened at last Cannes. A practically private artform" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1959017029530243179) 2025-08-22T22:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@em_Seq Where do you think MGS got all its ideas from Even the face injuring. Jokes aside maybe the dull "cinematic" desaturation. And handheld camera movements in MGSV were tangible instead of this weird in-between where even overhead shots bob a little despite not being POV-esque" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1960807669402624126) 2025-08-27T20:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@em_Seq Correction: the camera bobbing was in the original MGS3 yet I feel some difference in smoothness here. It might be more of a framerate/animation-tweening thing. Or perhaps there being more contrast & definition of the models in the OG made them blur less. https://youtu.be/sIUpPZ2ARJwt=466 https://youtu.be/sIUpPZ2ARJwt=466" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1960816143490293910) 2025-08-27T21:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@naranciagaming @em_Seq Motion blur that's probably it above all else yeah. Less obvious than with camera turns but it can make even normal speed model movements look uncanny to how we actually see. That + desaturation + less contrast in lighting & object coloring = death by a thousand cuts = yuck" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1960833249858453784) 2025-08-27T22:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@TehSnakerer Is it better to be stranded in Sittingbourne or to be sitting in Strandedbourne" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1962567333597045153) 2025-09-01T17:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@novusolus Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem had a similar problem in hiding most of those cool effects (and music) as a punishment behind low-heath states. If you wanted to see them you had to purposefully play badly & then competently straggle along near-death. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=n1AnjSEgxJs&t=120s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=n1AnjSEgxJs&t=120s" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1970614044949119299) 2025-09-23T22:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Half-Life 2: New Times (2025) Starts with a rough Citadel section but by the second chapter becomes one of the greatest HL mods Episode One-adjacent apocalyptic aesthetics entail some of the most sinister sub-terrain & bleakest blast-scapes yet envisioned for the setting 1/X" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1971011606663327791) 2025-09-25T00:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "2/X Traditional HL2 approach rendered in high polish once it gets going. Most of the assets are vanilla but careful architecture makes the venture feel more original. Like the late great Valve art director Viktor Antonov himself this team made even the ordinary entrancing" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1971013547619750123) 2025-09-25T00:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "3/X One evidence of a great visual designer is when spaces nigh-identical in their utility (such as a simple A-to-B corridor) are yet distinct in every instance Similarity in a tangible-feeling world as opposed to mass-manufactured prefab spaces. One way good games feel free" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1971016076063576546) 2025-09-25T00:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Looks as if Half-Life 2's Corpse01.mdl got an educational movie role https://x.com/EDENPOIS0N/status/1972393422951690404 https://youtu.be/2Ntynga55GY i cannot stop thinking about the art in "MAN AND SAFETY - PHYSIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS" some DOD instructional video from '63. here's the bit on "sleep deprivation" https://t.co/S8SYkFNo15 https://x.com/EDENPOIS0N/status/1972393422951690404 https://youtu.be/2Ntynga55GY i cannot stop thinking about the art in "MAN AND SAFETY - PHYSIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS" some DOD instructional video from '63. here's the bit on "sleep deprivation"" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1972441329797066840) 2025-09-28T23:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "31 Days of Horror VGM (October 2025) #1. Half-Life 2: Amalgam -- Safe Room Potent tone can benefit from a placid baseline or breaks. Brief respites make the fear contrast so as to avoid uniformity. Resident Evil's relief motifs have inspired many other works including HL mods" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1973581376814457191) 2025-10-02T02:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "31 Days of Horror VGM (October 2025) #1. Potent tone can benefit from a placid baseline or brief breaks since respites make fears contrast so as to avoid uniformity. Resident Evil's relief motifs have inspired many other great works including HL mods. https://youtu.be/LTaUXK5EGjolist=PLaQC7D6gBh3NaGghKQE29i0r-DiUu5DRG https://youtu.be/LTaUXK5EGjolist=PLaQC7D6gBh3NaGghKQE29i0r-DiUu5DRG" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1973585339752259838) 2025-10-02T03:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@novusolus Many examples of "the Chinese cinema" do come from Hong Kong & Taiwan but the rest has had many masters too Unsure what OP would consider "influential enough" -- surely Kar-wai & the action legends count -- but there are many unknown greats such as Zhang Nuanxin & docs as well" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1973796185040433562) 2025-10-02T17:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@novusolus And as far as vidya goes well gatcha is not my thing & I haven't played much from China in general. But this richly-textured card adventure with some interesting scenarios & an amazing Middle-Eastern aesthetic is cool. As are Red Candle Games (Detention) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3117820/Sultans_Game/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3117820/Sultans_Game/" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1973800155359924327) 2025-10-02T17:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "#2: Genre pieces that are far from scary yet have a distinctly "spooky" feel even in light form are also worth noting Here especially in the intro it's elements oscillating from elusive echoes to exciting reveals an anticipation (of the beat drop) https://youtu.be/gXV0PU91R-Qlist=PLVoerqML4MHiL14FWWK7QL9sdJoNbbhgk https://youtu.be/gXV0PU91R-Qlist=PLVoerqML4MHiL14FWWK7QL9sdJoNbbhgk" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1973802366492438795) 2025-10-02T17:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "PTU (2003) Atmospheric Johnnie To thriller following a city's host of police & gangster factions intersecting across a volatile night When a dubious beat cop loses his gun various players help & antagonize him; organization as multifaceted tactile-yet-intangible force & image" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1973936826135294429) 2025-10-03T02:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "#3: As memorable as jolly jingles & horrific howls can be the slightly uncanny can be as effective as extremity Silent Hill cutscene music often falls into this region but this Touhou fangame also adds portent by peppering dreamy drones with instability https://youtu.be/L-Nd1GJGcpUlist=PLgTOkNnK-z0OWLXbQMzNARninK2sTJszT https://youtu.be/L-Nd1GJGcpUlist=PLgTOkNnK-z0OWLXbQMzNARninK2sTJszT" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1974230692130136286) 2025-10-03T21:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@RichardJuice Such a downer movie why make such a grueling story -- that according to defenders was meant to reflect financial hardships of the time; though the details didn't stick with me just the tone -- that the protags scrape a victory over only to yoink it away in the last few seconds" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1979018834745995312) 2025-10-17T02:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Example of an advert/image controlling the frame And thereby minimizing the damage (or even spinning into a positive) what would be a major negative If you can't ignore a negative spin it on YOUR terms" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1564134915117092865) 2022-08-29T06:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Ming Green (1966) Before leaving his home in New York Gregory J. Markopoulos filmed the spaces & objects he had made many memories with Not as mythic or sexual as most of his work yet a standout example of how textures & places left behind still linger in the mind On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1889477597899174204) 2025-02-12T00:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Chamber (1977) From his first year of published filmmaking Joseph Bernard was already a master of appreciating detail in the everyday & translating it to exhilarating libidinal editing speed Interiors of homes bodies screens frames the camera itself On his official Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1891282774364942362) 2025-02-17T00:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Goff in theDesert (2003) Heinz Emigholz tributes architect Bruce Goff whose designs are among the most vividly spaced & lit in the Midwest USA An American-born talent who stands out for emphasis on geometric intricacy & natural harmony over sheer utility On demand at Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1893049854269571296) 2025-02-21T21:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "#17. As far as context goes sometimes what we consider music is equally qualified as sound effects. This is the case for the Thief OSTs which capture the levels' audio odysseys by splicing their various musical cues as well as environmental noises. https://youtu.be/XZViK3i-TJI https://youtu.be/XZViK3i-TJI" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1979350670915571814) 2025-10-18T00:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@fujiprospecter Wonderful stuff good bit of variety from letting the sunlight into the frame vs blocking it to various degrees too" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1979359443826663596) 2025-10-18T01:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "#18. And something similar could be said of multi-stage tracks which can be even more than the sum of their parts. Manhunt's John Carpenter-esque compositions can combine to tell stories of increasing endangerment. https://youtu.be/qZnu2yTcJVU https://youtu.be/qZnu2yTcJVU" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1979704360641937470) 2025-10-19T00:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@alpinespirits That is such a good shot doesn't even leave the cat do all the heavy lifting alone Reminds me of Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle but in HD digital and with a cat on a complementing platform as a central subject in the "field" of light and leaves" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1979976201335619910) 2025-10-19T18:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@fujiprospecter That is an AMAZING lens flare pattern. I might have to seek out one of these Cybershots myself" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1979997317307506785) 2025-10-19T19:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@fujiprospecter That's the sort of thing that can be maddening in professional settings but wonderful just for the love of the game & capturing a moment as purely that one moment What's the particular model of Cybershot here btw" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1979998471848329440) 2025-10-19T19:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "#20. Still music usually elevates already great games. This area in FAITH is not as dangerous as most others but the primal oscillations make it feel so in the moment. The descending horror of that transitory space between the calm & the storm itself. https://youtu.be/mj5bJ9n2qFE https://youtu.be/mj5bJ9n2qFE" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1980460344360497474) 2025-10-21T02:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "#21. And games not known chiefly for horror elements can still be greatly complemented by them. This part frightened me as a kid as sudden death from the plunging facility you must escape from as this plays seemed as likely as being swarmed by foes. https://youtu.be/mTXeNWv0LmE https://youtu.be/mTXeNWv0LmE" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1980855963809902722) 2025-10-22T04:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@thorncube Good potential in that mirror for photography. Something high-contrast to complement the sharp outline" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1980868568465182835) 2025-10-22T05:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Jauna_K Indeed even the non-catchy Deus Ex themes are classics. For that matter the mostly lowkey Invisible War did have some surprisingly potent horror music in the Antarctica section. This one's great & "Arrival" and "Power Generator" are even more abrasive. https://youtu.be/K_snu_4PyYs https://youtu.be/K_snu_4PyYs" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1981083405912519132) 2025-10-22T19:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "#22. A few of the most potent VGM horrors come from unexpected places such as this Pink Panther song. Sometimes a game will throw out a sudden shock just because. Why not if the moment's remotely grim enough for it anyway Give 'em something to remember. https://youtu.be/slUXvIpgLfI https://youtu.be/slUXvIpgLfI" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1981085008904310911) 2025-10-22T19:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "#23. Speaking of context some dear memories of mine are relevant to horror VGM. I once played some Quake co-op with a friend well-versed in dark ambient who was taken aback by this one. Composed using manipulated sound effects to fit on the N64 cartridge. https://youtu.be/wjp9-gCtJpo https://youtu.be/wjp9-gCtJpo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1981582364053577777) 2025-10-24T04:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@rose_phantasm The original Quake is still one of the best FPSes in terms of gameplay imo. In '96 Trent Reznor's soundtrack was uncontested as the scariest in a game yet (save for Aubrey Hodges's Doom PS1 in '95). It & the N64 OST: elite. Inspired fanmade wonders too https://youtu.be/VNa7Xx5ub6c https://youtu.be/VNa7Xx5ub6c" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1981613013787439506) 2025-10-24T06:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "#29. While wordless the final boss theme of Silent Hill [--] perfectly captures not only an emotional state but even a development & exchange. A moment of placidity boils into fury with brief gasps of silence as if to emulate the breaks in a heated argument. https://youtu.be/-TbFv6i-5TI https://youtu.be/-TbFv6i-5TI" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1983622958750035999) 2025-10-29T19:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "#30. With the Dead Space soundtracks Jason Graves reminds us that even aesthetics as saturated as tense orchestral strings can be revitalized with enough ingenuity. Phonics as physical and aggressive: shivers swarms scratches. https://youtu.be/RZ01gTCio1k https://youtu.be/RZ01gTCio1k" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1984052361455964324) 2025-10-31T00:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "#31. In Kane & Lynch [--] Mona Mur's environmental sampling meets unfettered unsettlement. Tension of the objective (field recordings capturing city stimulations) being brought into subjective psychology sound indicating an ambiguous but omnipresent threat. https://youtu.be/bJAS1-EqaYg https://youtu.be/bJAS1-EqaYg" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1984386292889894994) 2025-10-31T22:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "#31. In Kane & Lynch [--] Mona Mur's environmental sampling meets unfettered unsettlement. Tension of the objective (field recordings capturing city stimulations) being brought into subjective psychology sound indicating an ambiguous but omnipresent threat. https://youtu.be/xzp-0vLc_hYlist=PLaQC7D6gBh3ML0HTqXdixxNvRz_Yp729W https://youtu.be/xzp-0vLc_hYlist=PLaQC7D6gBh3ML0HTqXdixxNvRz_Yp729W" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1984387616981274742) 2025-10-31T22:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@rippersdelight @maddieaf6 What external memory do you recommend Its about time I got some more multi-TB hard drives" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1985402532743561457) 2025-11-03T17:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@novusolus Bad art (and discourse) not capturing/interpreting reality so much as being a closed loop of signifiers Among psychosexual monster movies of the moment GDT fails despite having Hollywood & a great novel to work with yet cartoon Chainsaw Man: Reze is way more incisive & tactile" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1990117938603429939) 2025-11-16T18:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@hekkycastillo Tone isn't for everyone but NGE's clearly about being underexperienced overwhelmed (religious motifs less "message to decode" more "about doomscrolling") & wanting to escape from or into others Differences can be confusing & connections difficult but necessary for definition" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1990136508406284426) 2025-11-16T19:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@photograffiti "Axolotl Wooper Loopers Lair" sounds like prime real estate" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1990627545331409101) 2025-11-18T03:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@novusolus My uncle who works at Valve tells me that's just a title they're using to keep their project under wraps. it's actually going to be titled Half-Life 2: Found Coast" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1990637279103078740) 2025-11-18T04:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Elohemian @nin10doland Other M music is also way better than it gets credit for. but also a mismatch since it's hard to appreciate the scariest dark ambient in the series when you're doing the most outlandish activities in the series. Imagine this in more atmospheric gameplay. https://youtu.be/Jkin8tWuLEY https://youtu.be/Jkin8tWuLEY" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1992378605020807301) 2025-11-22T23:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@rippersdelight @maddieaf6 I & others would love an in-depth breakdown on archival hardware with your expertise sometime. That setup you recced sounds good but would it be ok for watching movies & playing (not resource-intensive) games directly from the HDDs Or would that setup be for cold storage only" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2006550486602887603) 2026-01-01T02:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@H4TESEX Nice depth via diagonals and an interesting contrast of those depth-lending light poles with the more "2D" tableau-aligned trees in the foreground which are even silhouetted to give more of a flattened effect" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2006885960949112902) 2026-01-02T00:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Lights (1966) Marie Menken spins variations on decorations to show how many ways there are to represent similar subjects every approach to extending one's perception & physicality a multiplier to potentials @artandtrash_ has a must-watch upload with audio commentary on YouTube" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2007272169773113704) 2026-01-03T02:05Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Diffusion is sort of a Half-Life [--] mod using a GoldSource fork called Xash3D to achieve extra-impressive environments Fragility & a dash make gameplay fresh & frantic but the main draw is some of the most gorgeous mapping in gaming including nature-tech harmony & cozy alcoves" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2007949104564113869) 2026-01-04T22:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@gatekperkiller_ Yeah I'm ambivalent on "gatekeeping" myself -- on the one hand great work should be appreciated yet artists/restorers should be supported & even "trading" encourages new stuff to be introduced -- but making up slander isn't cool Be careful & good luck on your better missions" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2009045096860454929) 2026-01-07T23:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Enter the Fat Dragon (1978) Talented martial artist/director Sammo Hung tributes Bruce Lee by not imitating his likeness so much as playing a goof imitating his likeness Aspirational bravado gets into trouble but also demonstrates real skill when needed against genre pastiches" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2009094807256481978) 2026-01-08T02:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@novusolus Guy with 24.3k posts (mostly of the whiny striving sort) since being on Twitter since he was [--] years old regrets time spent with art vows to make amends by hitting 25k soon via more money-pining & Mr. Beast reuploads" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2012285540863733800) 2026-01-16T22:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "2/X Eclipsium is hard to praise without spoiling specific moments so for now suffice to say that there are few other games simultaneously as directly simple yet tangible as how you navigate & engage with a setting (and a character with his own surprising agency in movements)" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2012288239382503918) 2026-01-16T22:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@JosiahAngcanan shares his filmography -- a recent moviemaker yet already impressive & varied -- on his Vimeo Check out his work which includes other shorts & features that demonstrate many ideas for microbudget moviemaking https://vimeo.com/1126868158 https://vimeo.com/1126868158" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2014468925069607241) 2026-01-22T22:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "River Film (1972) Virtually no one glided a camera or edited a blitz like pilot Robert Fulton. This nature short is a prime example of his switchups between speeds & densities of images held steady by ASMR-esque audio Support the astounding restorers at ref3collection vhx tv" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2013010339491643844) 2026-01-18T22:07Z [---] followers, 19.8K engagements "Emerald Necklace (2016) For the first part of his Human Nature quartet Robert Todd films Massachusetts landscapes shaped in part by major architect Frederick Law Olmsted Nature spaces somewhat ordered to human tastes somewhat allowed to feel "wild" for human tastes On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2013160639439438242) 2026-01-19T08:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Over Water (2015) The second entry in Robert Todd's Human Nature quartet begins with psychological kinetics in its footage of waterways yet sharply contrasts with more "objective" images later Apparently interrogates representation itself; multiple modes & impressions On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2013393291933347971) 2026-01-19T23:29Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Artificial Atmospheres (2016) The penultimate entry in Robert Todd's Human Nature quartet resembles Harun Farocki in its foregrounding tech's reinterpretations Subjects variated by mediums & implications: a landscape as airflow data impressionism as a bag on the lens On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2013747950485151886) 2026-01-20T22:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "The Hills (2016) Robert Todd concludes his Human Nature quartet with a consideration of the literal partitioning of space for aesthetic play extraction etc Nature is inherently unordered but it's human nature to draw (and sometimes cross) boundaries & relationships On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2014085924137611759) 2026-01-21T21:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Human Nature (2016) Comprised of four shorts -- Emerald Necklace Over Water Artificial Atmospheres & The Hills -- this quartet by Robert Todd considers different ways humanity shapes wilderness & presents information in art foregrounding tone & our constructing it On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2014149177672933735) 2026-01-22T01:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Pistolis Twilight (2025) Josiah Angcanan in the tradition of house-set movies like those by Stan Brakhage & Nicky Hamlyn recognizes curious sights in the most ordinary environs A microscopic study also demonstrating the degrees of digital's clarity & saturation On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2014190905670918550) 2026-01-22T04:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Water Seeking its Level (2002) Leighton Pierce and his daughter enjoy a day at a stream recorded at a blurred framerate & fuzziness of detail that resembles watercolor the short itself viscously (but gently) warbling in shape On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2014471953650770410) 2026-01-22T22:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Three Shores (2023) In this middle-length Benning-esque landscape movie Damien Cattinari traverses various waterways in degrees of civilization Shots extend for minutes yet have surprising activity: birds in flight machines in operation planes of space revealed. On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2014590989281734974) 2026-01-23T06:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@joeviewtiful22 "Festival" FOMO is a cute sentiment that doesn't hold up to reality. Events playable after debuts are cool but read up how (former) players of say Destiny like "sunsetting" art they paid for or would've destroyed into lost media. Meanwhile Runescape respects its past & grows" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2016041126000578825) 2026-01-27T06:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Elegy (2006) John Warren tributes an elderly loved one with images that feel like the slipping of time & an approach of something greater Spells out themes with text cards but more potent in film footage so bright as to resemble a past/future vision burning into light On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2016044915285688790) 2026-01-27T07:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@LehtonenThe Not to imply it was full-on austere but I preferred Better Call Saul's frequently tableau style a bit over Breaking Bad's more frantically subjective style. A good fit for a story with the ending somewhat pre-determined & the point of interest being more observing the path to it" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2016097388578967792) 2026-01-27T10:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "ROYGBIV (2017) Dan Browne whisks a camera into the trees & into a tunnel. Not both at the same time but seemingly so via shots layered in such a way as to be totally redefined in each variation One of the most impressive & compact two-minute short movies ever On Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2016100978890616879) 2026-01-27T10:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Jagko / Pursuit of Death (1980) Im Kwon-taek took a major step toward being arguably South Korea's greatest director with this drama spanning decades of turmoil A cop struggling to overcome injuries & personal flaws is the last who cares to catch a fled war criminal On YouTube" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2017083521383199087) 2026-01-30T03:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "The Belly of an Architect (1987) Peter Greenaway equates structure to fatalism in this drama of a designer whose desire to tribute an inspiration is obstructed by the greed & passions of others (and himself) Locations presented as points in an circuit disrupted by spontaneities" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2017397987408859367) 2026-01-31T00:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "in.side.out (1999) With turn-of-the-millennium digital Scott Stark recorded images of the destruction of a neighboring derelict house with surprising evocativeness even limited to a distant perspective Motifs gradually expand to show more spatial context & time passing Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2018526266941682020) 2026-02-03T03:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "My Falcon / Mein Falke (2023) A forensicist is overwhelmed by the morbidity of work & strained relations but curious confrontations offer new perspectives on life socially & literally Dominik Graf gracefully & meaningfully navigates disparate yet precise dramatic encounters" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2018914265101471910) 2026-02-04T05:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Cursed Objects (2019) This true-crime short by Daniel Watkins recalls Landscape Suicide by James Benning in its tracing locations loosely related to real murders L.A.'s Hillside Stranglers roamed backroads that VHS-emulating images find barely remembered by civilization Vimeo" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2021389399410475423) 2026-02-11T01:02Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "garden where nothing grows (2014) This entry in Jake Barningham's 70-part Czechia Videos series utilizes his rephotography penchants to a somewhat three-dimensional effect Shadows sweep to obscure but details behind abstract scribbles also "emerge" like plant growth Youtube" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021474245759598668) 2026-02-11T06:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Munich: Secrets of a City (2000) Dominik Graf & Michael Althen created arguably the greatest city symphony with this sensual multimedia odyssey Essays & skits see network as sonder all individuals taking their paths due to chance & seeking to understand and be something else" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021796420685095044) 2026-02-12T04:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@KEMOgroyper Not only has SKG already done the medium a service by opposing disposability Ross's reviews do more for appreciating art with genuine curiosity than your lame fashion statements -- "Please look I'm smarter than everyone else for not caring about scummy practices" -- ever will" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2022830469667045570) 2026-02-15T00:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@segobrigense Not as much blocking as your examples but this image from Boorman's Deliverance (1972) especially comes to mind as this type of shot establishing a sort of "spectator at the cusp of a portal" dynamic. The lighting (front & back) goes a long way for this effect" [X Link](https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/2022832797627339194) 2026-02-15T00:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Dante = industrious spontaneous witty responsible control of his power -- even before aging & further maturing Donte = hedonist mean-spirited resentful (even bullying weak innocent fat guy bouncer) apathetic (slurred speech nagged into doing good)"
X Link 2023-06-29T20:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Even infamous DMC2 Dante while not as charismatic & vitalistic as in the other canon media was a pained hero more than a navel-gazing antihero Moral sacrificed for the weak & innocent never whined had self-control reassured others in distress etc"
X Link 2023-06-29T20:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Mathilukal / The Wall (1990) This Indian film follows a political prisoner considering if his actions have any merit & if it's possible to put life into perspective when circumstances change so much Kudos to @college_kumaran for the rec 📽Watch here👇"
X Link 2023-07-14T22:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Barry Lyndon (1975) An Irish outcast nervously climbs social ladders of 1700s England yet fails to truly integrate & get along Stanley Kubrick shows an ornate setting his outsider never comprehends or fits into even while ingratiating & exploiting increasingly skeptical hosts"
X Link 2023-09-07T22:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"RIP Buichi Terasawa. His works of art were genre pulps as creative & free as dreams. Cobra Goku Midnight Eye etc -- all a blast Strange coincidence I posted these screenshots from the gorgeous Space Adventure Cobra movie exactly one year ago 09/11/22"
X Link 2023-09-12T05:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"In addition to being vilely antiwhite -- and therefore a fan of Scorsese's "White people evil" guilt-tripping -- this Blumhouse exec gets basic production history wrong. The disingenuous portrayal of Whites in American History X wasn't directed by a White"
X Link 2023-10-24T02:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@revenant_MMXX Feels Reddit Youre just throwing out loaded phrases & talking like Where does Link keep all that stuff Checkmate instead of making a case. Resistance knows Breen caused the RC Gordon prevented the Xen rift & the other staff are capable survivors/eager necessary allies"
X Link 2024-02-04T19:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Thief: The Dark Project (1998) Stealth game opus following a skilled loner larcenist entangled in dark plots Medieval fantasy where man desperately vies to survive a world of shadows; treasures to save civilization or pay rent hide in brutalist castles & nightmarish pits 1"
X Link 2024-02-08T23:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Hypnosis Display (2014 Paul Clipson) Your favourite experimental film in a single image. I'll start. https://t.co/wDvaBUoDRS Your favourite experimental film in a single image. I'll start. https://t.co/wDvaBUoDRS"
X Link 2024-03-06T01:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@UpdateTheGrids Jean Luc-Godard once had an interview with Woody Allen (whose idea of movies as essentially an extension of literature did not agree with JLG's more visual approach) & made it yet more standoffish by editing it into a proto-YouTube Poop. Meetin' WA (1986) is free on Dailymotion"
X Link 2024-04-02T18:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@accursedfarms Commenting for that little extra algo boost; I recommend others do similarly on here & other social media. You're doing God's work Ross"
X Link 2024-04-02T19:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Rehearsals forRetirement (2007) Phil Solomon was a master of recontextualizing archival & home-video footage into experimental odysseys; he made "machinemas" with equal skill Filmed in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas this short appreciates virtual space & texture"
X Link 2024-05-10T21:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Last Days in a Lonely Place (2007) The only entry of Phil Solomon's "In Memoriam" GTA: San Andreas series to be shot in black & white Audio from The Twilight Zone & other classic media further mystifies atmosphere somewhere between vintage & digital: beautiful virtual purgatory"
X Link 2024-05-12T23:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"A variety of computer rooms from Resident Evil 5: hydroponics for poisonous plants security station boat instrument station medical lab All of these are in essence "a small space with metal walls & a lot of CRT monitors" but attention to detail fairly differentiates each one"
X Link 2024-05-12T23:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Jean Epstein specialized in documenting small-town struggles but ramped up the spectral imagery for this Edgar Allan Poe movie Gothic delirium sees early use of many innovative camera techniques as texture & shorthands for psychological states"
X Link 2024-05-17T02:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Resident Evil [--] (1998) from the Leon A campaign Can be surprisingly bright & colorful fear relying less on uncertainty in lighting so much as uncertainty in space: close quarters blind corners fixed camera angles that roughly simulate short-sightedness in long stretches etc"
X Link 2024-05-22T16:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Elohemian The classic RE games in the PS2/GameCube generation definitely did put more advanced lighting to use yes. What I'm saying is that Capcom had good ways to work around on PS/before that newer tech such as the use of space as well as baking shading into the background textures"
X Link 2024-05-22T19:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@kenshirotism Wikipedia's Hills Have Eyes (1977) page's "Political themes" section -- "Craven has said that the film expresses rage against American culture and the bourgeois44 " -- links to page [---] of this interview. But it CITES [---] pic below. Make what you will. https://books.google.com/booksid=Y2XnWv_K_EgC&q=hills+have+eyes+grapes+of+wrath&pg=PA217 https://books.google.com/booksid=Y2XnWv_K_EgC&q=hills+have+eyes+grapes+of+wrath&pg=PA217"
X Link 2024-05-28T23:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@kenshirotism Though this doesn't necessarily mean the movie aims to be antiwhite much less that such a message is admirable in any case. Most interesting is that the likes of IPoS see violence against innocent White people & weaselly claim it's "to a degree" justified. Masks-off moment"
X Link 2024-05-29T03:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Angel of Forms (2023) @RushnanJ takes nocturnal experimental films to distinctly 3D space; when in motion the POV here eerily glides forward & backward in a phantasmagoric realm Sights of light drift away crawl upon surfaces & dart toward the screen with ghostly liquidity"
X Link 2024-06-01T22:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@samrith31 Most of Jon Jost's movies are available on his official Vimeo page so you can find his work & support him there: https://vimeo.com/jonjost/vod_pages https://vimeo.com/jonjost/vod_pages"
X Link 2024-06-11T22:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@joeviewtiful22 As far as an ever more international Mario goes Super Mario Odyssey is the clearest example but there have been bits of this in other works such as Wonder as you describe too. Good fit for this aesthetic; Mario is surprisingly flexible as long as it's "good-natured fun""
X Link 2024-06-17T22:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@joeviewtiful22 Capcom's Haunting Ground/Demento added to the Clock Tower style of horror an ambitious (but patience-testing) AI dog that you "train" through repeated command-context associations kinda like The Last Guardian Soundtrack is killer too https://youtu.be/AWUcoL0PXn8 https://youtu.be/AWUcoL0PXn8"
X Link 2024-06-30T00:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Half-Life: Delta Particles (2024) One of the greatest HL1 mods. Arsenal is vast yet has ammo limits that challenge the player to be diverse in approaches. Level design (which reminded me of Chasm: The Rift) has strong space in horizontal & vertical planes. Roughly as long as HL1"
X Link 2024-07-03T19:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"G String (2020) Fascinating HL2 total conversion with astoundingly detailed environs. Heart-of-darkness odyssey in a cyberpunk hellscape that disorients with sheer accumulation & decontextualization of its decayed gaudy architecture. Highly ambitious for @eyaura & her small team"
X Link 2024-08-16T17:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@GinglesMr When you go to the basement in Resident Evil 7"
X Link 2024-08-17T22:15Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Thief: The Black Parade (2023) An apex achievement in virtual architecture & heart-of-darkness descents POV of a desperate treasure hunter allows for spatial perspectives that highlight our fascination with the dark fantastical & forbidden like few other artworks have 🧵"
X Link 2024-08-18T01:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"2 While this modification of a late-90s video game may not be the most visually realistic virtual space it's one of the most thoughtfully detailed to entail a tangible sense of age & inhabitance"
X Link 2024-08-18T01:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"3 And what adds to Thief: The Black Parade's power is that beyond being a massive accumulation of amazing sights the level design balances openness & continuity to put these sights in relation to each other These four screenshots are all from the same map (no extra loading)"
X Link 2024-08-18T02:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Le Cercle Rouge (1970) Alain Delon Gian Volont & Yves Montand rob a bank as a virile act in their ghostly de-rooted lives Jean-Pierre Melville directs denying reprieve; lengthy desperate escapes & meticulous planning grant only fleeting moments of beauty still worth emerging"
X Link 2024-08-18T20:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@joeviewtiful22 Your point about GG is true but that chart was fake. Besides girls don't mind & may even tag along as long as one's well-balanced & socially skilled Hobby is an issue only if over-centered/hurting other personal facets -- or if one's anxious to share & "defend it" to her frame"
X Link 2024-08-20T22:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@N3FASTIS Equally as VHS-core as vaporwave ethereality is (if to a very different end) Directed by Stanley Tong the director of Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx & the Supercop movies"
X Link 2024-08-21T22:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Eight Taels of Gold (1989) Mabel Cheung directs arguably Sammo Hung's finest performance. An expat who fled the disastrous Cultural Revolution returns to China to impress rural family & friends by appearing rich. But he realizes how rootless he is & how his home's been upended"
X Link 2024-08-23T19:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Central Park [--] are model citizens of the modern West because they harm Whites hence the legal lenience & political rewards Netflix/DNC's hagiography welcomes more violence against Whites denying victims of antiwhiteism a platform to tell their stories https://x.com/wanyeburkett/status/1826820691200487836 Just in the first [--] minutes of this he puts the video interviews of suspects in the park that night up against footage from the Netflix show. In the show the kids are playful and laughing. They are a little aggressive with some cyclists patting them on the back as they bike"
X Link 2024-08-23T20:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@joeviewtiful22 @bog_beef Walter Hill is an often great & emotionally charged director. He also did The Warriors (no intro needed) & The Driver (inspiration for the Ryan Gosling movie with a similar name) Little to no condescension in representing masculine vitality & urban energy"
X Link 2024-08-26T01:05Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Chekist (1992) Members of CHEKA Lenin's real-life secret police establish a brutal & efficient process for killing opposition to the communist state in droves But the routine wears on the minds of its executors who uneasily cope or seek escape unwilling to object 📽On YT👇"
X Link 2024-08-27T00:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@angeldevenganza @FrenchOG3 This is the way brilliant to not only fog/spin the premise but also incorporate setting up date logistics always-be-closing Though FUN frame control like this requires more skill than just fleeing & making a (demoralizing) fashion statement to try to impress Twitter followers"
X Link 2024-09-03T19:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"All is Light (2022) Short by @Eggzzie34 applying his affinity for shadows & lights as well as particle fields to the "flicker film" Double-exposures & strobes unite elements & emulate our eyes' perceiving afterimages moving in sync/contrast to what's directly seen 📽On Vimeo👇"
X Link 2024-09-12T18:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"All is Light (2022) and several other works by Baker Ahmed/@Eggzzie34 can be seen for free on his official Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/734867877autoplay=1&muted=1&contextual=viewer_home&stream_id=Y2xpcHN8MTY1NTQxMTM5fGlkOmRlc2N8eyJyZW1vdmVfdm9kX3RpdGxlcyI6ZmFsc2V9 https://vimeo.com/734867877autoplay=1&muted=1&contextual=viewer_home&stream_id=Y2xpcHN8MTY1NTQxMTM5fGlkOmRlc2N8eyJyZW1vdmVfdm9kX3RpdGxlcyI6ZmFsc2V9"
X Link 2024-09-12T18:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (2010) Two crooks with few admirable traits save for ever-enduring survival instinct must shoot their way out of a Shanghai manhunt Brutal camcorder presentation nightmarish electronic ambience & essentialist gunplay forcing careful movement & coop 🧵"
X Link 2024-09-24T23:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"K&L2 blasts electronic dissonance in gritty slummy and/or gaudy locales to emphasize utterly unaccommodating urbanity Players interact in little more than core shooting & sprinting eschewing gimmicks in favor of tactical synch timing cover & approaches in multifaceted arenas"
X Link 2024-09-25T00:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@davo_arid Whoa that's so persuasive now I wish all those murderers rapists & so on were still alive leeching off my tax dollars Or better yet allowed to strike again just to be even more of a shining example of how holy it is of us to not execute "a particularly callous psychopath.""
X Link 2024-09-25T18:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Sense of Architecture (2009) Heinz Emigholz's epic documentary showcases modern Austrian buildings from the kindergarten to the crematorium in a sort of chronological trek Spaces are established at a cityscape distance then redefined by closeups & sprinklings of activity 1"
X Link 2024-11-08T23:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"2 Sense of Architecture (2009) as well as Heinz Emigholz movies in general exhibit a curious approach to space Unconventional angles emulate tilted glimpses of places of a POV moving through them as opposed to the neutrality of encompassing wide shots alone Watch on Vimeo"
X Link 2024-11-09T00:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@augureust @PMCEurokyne @engeignos Many obscure movies (including out-of-print or even works with no official release whatsoever) on thanks to users such as: Though one may need to use Jdownloader to save an offline file & then get an .srt from Opensubtitles as opposed to watching on-site. https://letterboxd.com/shenanigance/list/oedipus-rex-upload/ https://letterboxd.com/shenanigance/list/oedipus-rex-upload/"
X Link 2024-11-17T00:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@augureust It's good & arguably for the best that HL2 release had a nigh-quotidian tangible aesthetic Establishes tone from space being arranged even without fantasy parts a more sensitive skill/pleasure to train designers Plus there are old-build fan projects: https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1826374336472891564 Raising the Bar: Reloaded (WIP) Ambitious fan project recreating scrapped ideas from the legendary Half-Life [--] beta files Incomplete but so far a lengthy & richly detailed trek in the spirit of the original colorful yet rivalling HL2 in terms of harsh texturing & nocturnality"
X Link 2024-11-18T05:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@RichardJuice I think the way these things work is that someone makes a cryptocurrency themed around a meme & then makes the meme inorganically popular by paying large accounts to post in order to raise the value of said crypto"
X Link 2024-11-30T23:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@rose_phantasm Great stuff; I daresay "Unseen Abyss" is a top [--] Final Fantasy battle track"
X Link 2024-11-30T23:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Animal (1976) Vaguely menacing landscape-centric drama in which a couple meet & are pulled apart with equal mysteriousness Eerie ellipses in remote Vermont forests entail a primal confusion images & events ghostly & uncertain Free in HD on director Walter Ungerer's Vimeo"
X Link 2024-12-01T21:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Karl May (1974) A 1900s German novelist convinced many that his fictional adventures were real Strain (including IP suits) with his people led him to blur fantasy & reality to determine what of himself he could/should redefine On demand alongside other Syberberg films at Vimeo"
X Link 2024-12-03T00:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@GalloRespecter That's some impressive fidelity on the 2000s flip-phone camera"
X Link 2024-12-09T23:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@augureust Jurgen Reble similarly presented such footage with Chemical Intervention in (Film) History on his site here: See also David Morrison Phil Solomon Steven Broomer Al Razutis Paolo Gioli Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi -- on YT Vimeo VK etc https://www.filmalchemist.de/films/chemical_intervention.html https://www.filmalchemist.de/films/chemical_intervention.html"
X Link 2024-12-21T02:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Struggle (1931) D.W. Griffith's final work sees a family man whose agreeableness makes him well-loved at first yet vulnerable to addiction Biograph-style staging & progression of sets meets considered dialogue as DWG shows how good intentions can be soured & hard to redeem"
X Link 2024-12-21T23:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Struggle (1931) Many moments where characters (not only the addicted protag) do or say something that betrays past bonds showing remorse but knowing that something has been lessened & finding that intent in the moment isn't enough to correct course by itself"
X Link 2024-12-21T23:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Journey to the Caucasus and Persia (1910) Mario Piacenza was a mountain climber who documented impressive ascents & this slice of ethnography Lanes of activity as well as varying aesthetics & degrees of development emphasized Available on the amazing Cineteca MNC Vimeo channel"
X Link 2025-01-05T01:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@college_kumaran Such sensitivity is largely left to independents in obscure corners of Vimeo etc such as Scott Barley & Toby Tatum Also worth noting that Lynch managed to eke some remarkable images post-funding & Herzog's Fire Within recontextualized the pre-existing. Hope Andrey heals up too"
X Link 2025-01-16T23:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Straight Story (1999) David Lynch's self-professed "most experimental" film is a biopic of elderly Alvin Straight's journeying hundreds of miles on tractor to reconnect with his dying estranged brother Ordinary incidents carry grand significance as townsfolk reflect on time"
X Link 2025-01-16T23:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"mergences (2004) Philippe Cote made movies of landscapes textures & everything in between His most microscopic & abstract is this series of painted filmstrips. Akin to Brakhage but paced gingerly enough to let one soak in more detail per frame as opposed to a blitz Vimeo"
X Link 2025-03-04T03:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Undergrowth (2011) Robert Todd explores forest floors not far from civilization anchoring the perspective into the eyes of an owl hunting for prey Recalls The Ground by Robert Beavers for its tense cross-cutting from environs to bodies expanding into dark ambience On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-03-20T21:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@VenomSnack "Players" copies sold. Inflated by Ubisoft Plus too. And launch on Steam was about 25k players 40k the day after. Of course [--] player is too many but don't fall for the blackpills AND don't even give hate attention and it'll likely quietly sputter out completely"
X Link 2025-03-21T02:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Arc of Spring (2015) Robert Todd observes the span of springtime from the thawing of winter snow to the fullness of summer bloom with traces of relevant human activity along the way A spectrum of not only the core of the subject but also its bookending gradients On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-03-21T23:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"A Ladder (2025) Weightless buoyancy allows excited particles to float their way to a speckled cosmos in the latest by @ScottBarleyFilm Some of the most marvelous digital black-&-white out there with even artifacts & gradients contributing to a sense of layered depth On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-03-27T03:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Trisskia3 (2013) Nick Collins has been quietly making some of the best short movies of recent decades This look into a ruined Byzantine church in Greece sees a tension between man's shaping of nature & time's reclamation result in marvelous images of their own right On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-04-03T17:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@sethsfilmreview Pretty much anything by Paul Clipson is up there. https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1581743247134961664 Hypnosis Display (2014) The late great Paul Clipson's feature-length odyssey of sights from the natural into the metropolitan Arguably experimental film at its most accessible & sensual; images overlap & associate in an instinctual aesthetic 📽Watch👇 https://t.co/mcoej1A0Wj https://t.co/WwEm8E1EUk https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1581743247134961664 Hypnosis Display (2014) The late great Paul Clipson's feature-length odyssey of sights from the natural into the"
X Link 2025-04-04T21:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The White Winged (2002) Iranian claymation short by Abdollah Alimorad with details wondrous & grim alike to teach its moral Two beautiful herons weathering a difficult drought must choose whether or not to resort to a suspicious yet sheltered haven to easily survive On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-04-06T19:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Sanday (1988) Nick Collins documents the titular one of Scotland's Orkney islands in four segments An optical printer gives an especially archaic texture to this ancient landscape; brings to mind Peter Hutton (Skagafjrdur) by ways of Phil Solomon (Remains to be Seen) On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-04-06T23:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"River of Fire [--] & [--] (2018) Tim Cawkwell was one of the best yet unsung filmmakers of the British avant-garde Light Years is his magnum opus but his digital gems include a watery diptych discovering a variety of awes by zooming into different parts of the same frames On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-04-21T22:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy tenth anniversary of the release of Environmental Station Alpha one of the best & most mysterious metroidvanias: https://youtu.be/kCV1pCG9UoQ https://youtu.be/kCV1pCG9UoQ"
X Link 2025-04-23T02:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@alpinespirits Glad to hear you're doing better. Don't feel a need to push yourself too hard though; sometimes taking some time to feed your inspiration can be as creatively fruitful as relentlessly being in the field. And your drawings & CRT experiments are cool pastimes in the meantime too"
X Link 2025-04-28T23:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Enclosures (2007) Arianne Olthaar makes nigh-uninhabited architecture movies of images akin to those of the liminal-space movement This eerie piece peers at primate areas that had not yet been renovated to better reflect their natural environs: odd habitat abstraction On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-05-12T22:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Valletta (1985) One of the most literally experimental by Nick Collins Shadowy images already delectable in their own right become even more spectral as it turns out we're seeing projections upon other projections & unstable canvasses On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-05-12T22:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"StandardGauge (1986) Morgan Fisher who worked on some Roger Corman productions & edited Messiah of Evil shares movie industry insights Film strips illustrate design principles -- color grading time measurement etc -- while being curious in the abstract On Ubu (dot) com"
X Link 2025-05-16T23:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@joeviewtiful22 As another comment mentioned VR games have largely filled in that tactile niche for new releases. I'll add that VR has also been the go-to for preserving the classics by (imperfectly) approximating the sensation in bizarre nostalgic simulated spaces: https://youtu.be/bRzcWDGR61g https://youtu.be/bRzcWDGR61g"
X Link 2025-05-19T22:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Tonalli (2021) Los Ingrvidos are a Mexican artistic collective with an especial interest in paleo aesthetics sometimes with a polemic angle This short loosely recreates war rituals with psychedelia spanning from ancient times to modern technique On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-05-26T23:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The Temple of Conflagrated Shadows (2025) The latest by Baker Ahmed/@Eggzzie34 is a strong contender for movie of the year Shadowy particle strobes comparable to the lofty likes of Jrgen Reble Scott Barley & Peter Gidal yet a spatially & texturally distinct descent On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-05-26T23:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Spirits in Season (2013) Steven Broomer document of New York's Lily Dale a spiritualist community with significant tourism in summer during a quiet autumn Spectral glowing & restless rustling from the camera leaf canopies & frozen-in-time memorabilia in front On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-05-30T02:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The Dithering Veil (2025) Rushnan Jaleel follows up The Angel of Forms (now public on Vimeo & YT) with this tribute to Joseph Bernard Everyday sights of people & nature filtered through digital haze that makes every light & recognizable form that much more vivid of a vestige"
X Link 2025-06-04T02:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Schwebebahn (2016) Arianne Olthaar short recorded on public transit gliding over nighttime cityscapes Demonstration of various views along a continual path the camera angling with movement & finding unique compositions via architectural space & light On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-06-05T23:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I think that while vanilla PC K&L2 is a great-looking game in itself a noise filter (which was present on the console releases but missing on PC) adds coherence & gradience to the lighting. Here are some comparisons of similar screenshots from base vs the Liveleak preset:"
X Link 2025-06-06T21:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"I highly value level design so I like how K&L2's spartan mechanics & lack of sniping options necessitate careful positioning. No easy fallbacks even with the camera=gun trick. And Extreme makes each individual within the hordes of enemies a likely one-hit-killer even at range"
X Link 2025-06-06T22:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@sideshowRaheem @JFrankensteiner "Let us invade & burn down your neighborhoods or you're a bootlicker""
X Link 2025-06-09T16:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Pools (2024) Eerie "walking sim" trek based on a liminal-space craze. Short (likely under [--] hours in a sprint) but environs offer high quality for those into the aesthetic & game photography/screenshotting. Striking audio/visuals in this vaguely unsettling layered voyage 1/X"
X Link 2025-06-17T01:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@uncommnephemera If you want your account to be more visible to others reply under the posts of larger accounts more. Not asking them for anything just whatever compliment or insight comes to mind upon seeing a good post. Also add " Film Strip Preservation" to handle so interest is piqued"
X Link 2025-06-20T00:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BasedMikeLee Enough of this vague "Marxist or not" paradigm. How about "for or against the well-being of White people" Why should we suffer dispossession of our homelands so Blackrock & China can construct blocs when you should expel the invaders taking away our homes Why do you hate us"
X Link 2025-06-20T02:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@artenpedia I don't know if it's the intent but images where multiple states of matter -- wobbly clouds ponds mounds -- all share some similarity in shape suggests to me a sort of universality of things different modes of the same fundamental stuff. Yet the red dress contrasts as human"
X Link 2025-06-20T02:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@novusolus Just scrolling through that site is a great way to find lost treasure. Incidentally I recommend Cryostasis especially since I gather that it's going to get even tougher to run on future Nvidia hardware. I had to install uninstall reinstall some drivers but it was worth it"
X Link 2025-06-24T20:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@kenshirotism Great thread TAL. Also worth noting that Pirate either outright lies about Ross's "The end of Stop Killing Games" video or slips that he didn't pay attention -- bc he claims it covers only PS's deleted streams when it also cover his equally bad main vids: https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1937966802048585950 https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1937966802048585950"
X Link 2025-06-25T21:06Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"https://vimeo.com/760967357 https://vimeo.com/760967357"
X Link 2025-06-26T05:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Geekerchan @i_zzzzzz The oil field segments have some of the most astounding archive footage I've ever seen. Whole channel is a goldmine. Here's a direct link so put on some Omar Hound or something similarly atmospheric & check it out: https://vimeo.com/760967357 https://vimeo.com/760967357"
X Link 2025-06-26T05:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@patrician_tv He knowingly lies too: PirateSoftware claims that he never took down his streams that falsely defamed Stop Killing Games that they were nuked by a glitch/on the part of the VOD holders. He lied. Source: "GAME DEV Q/A 💜 Go Make Games 📷 Heartbound Website TTS" 3hr 37min"
X Link 2025-06-26T06:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ALegendaryDrops Something sus to cover: PirateSoftware claims that he never took down his streams that falsely defamed Stop Killing Games that they were nuked by a glitch/on the part of the VOD holders. He lied. Source: "GAME DEV Q/A 💜 Go Make Games 📷 Heartbound Website TTS" 3hr 37min"
X Link 2025-06-26T06:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"GitS2: Innocence especially leaned into the "architecture as biospiritual memory" angle But the first Oshii movie sets a precedent. These signs are indecipherable to most but they are storage for information & even resemble computer hardware addons https://x.com/HumanoidHistory/status/1936655433063624780 Streetscapes in GHOST IN THE SHELL. https://t.co/m7H30RbJvk https://x.com/HumanoidHistory/status/1936655433063624780 Streetscapes in GHOST IN THE SHELL. https://t.co/m7H30RbJvk"
X Link 2025-06-26T19:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@JasonJMcCuiston Are there any good entries in this subgenre of fictionalized director biopics I haven't seen it but Pasolini by Abel Ferrara seems like the only promising one from recent years"
X Link 2025-06-27T20:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SilentGarrett Spotify continuing to be likely the most corrupt distribution platform. Wouldn't surprise me if they were hacking accounts (any 2FA yet or still no) botting & doing some in-house shell-company chicanery like with Epidemic Sound to push such fakes for "growth" & self-payouts"
X Link 2025-06-28T04:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"seven parts (2006) The short movies by Kyle Canterbury are microscopic ephemera that faintly flicker CRT light through muddled textures This one especially blurs film & digital as scanlines slice chemical debris; one of Canterbury's most varied as well Free on Vimeo"
X Link 2025-06-30T03:44Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@StagsFilm Been a while since I've seen TC but probably worth it even with some historical inaccuracies. Maybe try something shorter at "only" two hours with Union Pacific or Greatest Show on Earth first though. Especially The Sign of the Cross one of the nuttiest visions of ancient Rome"
X Link 2025-07-01T18:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"A Video (2006) Likely the closest to a polemic that Kyle Canterbury has made. Footage of George W. Bush ultra-pixelated & zoomed into abstraction Hard to infer specific meaning but it illustrates how images can newly fascinate by highlighting/subtracting details Free on Vimeo"
X Link 2025-07-02T06:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@novusolus @wotancore I use an extension called "Control Panel for Twitter" that can remove sidebars such as Trending & even makes a tab dedicated to retweets instead of clogging other feeds with them. And while it doesn't matter to me there are options to mute all checkmarks. Highly recommended"
X Link 2025-07-02T21:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Lights & Perfections (2006) An early Paul Clipson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma teamup and a high point in the work of both artists Clipson's camera floats into fields of flora in a varied yet blurred push; JCL holds ambient consistency & gently descends tones as the short ends"
X Link 2025-07-06T23:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Mr_AMHM @accursedfarms I'd put something among the lines of this being a very popular consumer rights movement (easy approval for them) to have the industry not continue to put designed obsolescence in products we buy & to not fall for the industry saying this would be too hard to them to stop doing"
X Link 2025-07-07T20:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@accursedfarms 1/2 For politician letters write something among the lines of this being a very popular consumer rights movement (easy approval for them) to have the industry not continue to put designed obsolescence in products we buy & to not fall for the industry saying this would be too hard"
X Link 2025-07-07T22:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"19: Passage (2006) Kyle Canterbury zeroes in on a cathode ray tube monitor rephotographing imagery into flickering grain Surprising tempos house CRT textures & seemingly sees frames between frames of video data: minimalist shapes with soft detail upon inspection Free on Vimeo"
X Link 2025-07-08T01:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cartographer_s Nest & flowerhead both round layered "incubators" of sorts from which flying creatures go to & from. Patterns in nature and yet the tabletop cornucopia is a distinctly human arrangement"
X Link 2025-07-08T19:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Crystal (1988) Isao Yamada films portraits of people who whether actively navigating or appearing in new places in each shot are gazing wanderers Even shadows locations & mementos can be a portrait of a model (or its photographer) On the "Dream Excursion" DVD by RE:VOIR"
X Link 2025-07-08T22:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"July (2006) Kyle Canterbury's initial wave of work (when he was 16/17 in '06) was ultra-abstract videography. But he also made more concrete pieces until his disappearance from filmmaking in '15 This is an early example of the latter style: protean digital clouding the familiar"
X Link 2025-07-10T01:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@TaoistShelby See who likes your most obscure favorites see promising obscure films they like to acquire new ones repeat & narrow For popular classics with lots of riff-raff writeups read only friends & archive accounts. Cahiers Revista Contracampo etc. Harder for contemporaries though"
X Link 2025-07-12T02:14Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Anc_Aesthetics That's a responsible law but moreover there's an underlying (evil) morality to hate/not care for White people that resulted in that law. When we replace that morality with a morality that values our people's wellbeing we'll have the foundation needed to end our victimization"
X Link 2025-07-12T05:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Lowdown1776 @Anc_Aesthetics As in the law was responsible for bad things happening"
X Link 2025-07-12T19:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Power of Speech (1988) Jean-Luc Godard demonstrates an early recognition of the power of video in this drama short financed by France Tlcom Human passions are contrasted to (and propagated by) new forms of technology creating new meanings in images by proximity On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-07-12T21:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"https://vimeo.com/17869683 https://vimeo.com/17869683"
X Link 2025-07-15T05:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"https://vimeo.com/191457901 https://vimeo.com/191457901"
X Link 2025-07-15T18:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@luusssso I recently saw a cool Vimeo short demonstrating what it looks like to look at the city from that monorail train's window at night. https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1930769146322489673 Schwebebahn (2016) Arianne Olthaar short recorded on public transit gliding over nighttime cityscapes Demonstration of various views along a continual path the camera angling with movement & finding unique compositions via architectural space & light On Vimeo https://t.co/GzP9eMfPDW https://x.com/TelevisualWord/status/1930769146322489673 Schwebebahn (2016) Arianne Olthaar short recorded on public"
X Link 2025-07-15T18:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Rear Window (1991) Ernie Gehr made one of his most expressionistic works in the wake of his father's death Whereas Side/Walk/Shuffle & Signal had striking concrete compositions this uses quick-cuts & blocking (including fingers) to search for the ephemeral anywhere On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-07-15T20:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@JkstrHmstr Interesting Hard for me to pick one; I like the parts individually but seeing Ten Videos as a whole feels most right Incidentally "gift" & "giving taking" were what tipped me off to the theme of the screentears edits etc feeling body-like. Reminded me of Beavers's The Ground"
X Link 2025-07-16T02:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Trip to the Sand Dunes (2009) Kyle Canterbury short which may have his most explicit foregrounding of framing devices -- as well as some of his loveliest imagery The video itself shows a CRT displaying the footage convex screen warmly reshaping & rebrightening memory On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-07-16T19:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@alpinespirits I do fine just muting everything I don't want to see but there are browser addons -- I think Control Panel for Twitter has such a function -- that mute premium accounts altogether"
X Link 2025-07-16T23:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"https://vimeo.com/134457676 https://vimeo.com/134457676"
X Link 2025-07-16T23:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@JkstrHmstr Flip Mino HD -- thanks for mentioning that I'll keep the model in mind. I primarily use a Canon R100 (and some common instant film cameras) but have also been gathering old camcorders & such. Editing is great and all but I prefer to do as much in-camera as possible"
X Link 2025-07-17T00:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Anc_Aesthetics "White erasure" -- that term covers so many of the dangers & victimization we're facing. Nothing abstract or general about it; traitors & intruders are gunning for us specifically. And let's not let Trump's "just White-erase the most skilled H1B positions" slide either"
X Link 2025-07-23T00:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@PolyDepression These are some lovely shots did you make them yourself Reminds me of Phil Solomon likely the best to ever do it in this vein: https://youtu.be/BY5TBKfEIWQlist=PL324e-c9CXD2-dHaRhZS5f023aYH6-XKQ https://youtu.be/BY5TBKfEIWQlist=PL324e-c9CXD2-dHaRhZS5f023aYH6-XKQ"
X Link 2025-07-23T21:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@GalloRespecter Grunge might make a road trip too potently melancholic compared to shoegaze acoustics or warm lo-fi. But if you do go that route Deftones as well as Failure are great options. https://youtu.be/JtkOBzieen4list=OLAK5uy_mf5CVy35rXraviBKgh8Of9qv3PICfx_eY https://youtu.be/JtkOBzieen4list=OLAK5uy_mf5CVy35rXraviBKgh8Of9qv3PICfx_eY"
X Link 2025-08-17T21:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@GalloRespecter "Wrath" by Iris is also a great moodier roadtrip album. And there's a Korean fellow on YouTube -- Music Lover Hwang Sang Woo -- who puts out breezy feel-good mixes on an almost daily basis. Amazing gold mine for melodic rock city pop ballads etc https://youtu.be/M8CCL5Cf3T4 https://youtu.be/M8CCL5Cf3T4"
X Link 2025-08-17T21:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@GalloRespecter Failure -- In the Future. Nmesh -- Cloud [--] Ed Harrison -- Neotokyo Demetori/UI-70 -- view of spiral riverside Opal Vessel -- Trilogy -- Fragmented Memories Ryu Umemoto -- Yu-No PC-98 Naked Flames -- Wall I Was Omar Hound -- . desert sand. --"
X Link 2025-08-17T22:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@novusolus I dunno about these specifically -- I think I muted 'em all before against-my-will factoid-osmosis -- but this type doesn't have to be married to be like that. Well they don't have to be married to a woman anyway. They're certainly "married" to & wanna impress male followers"
X Link 2025-08-21T17:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@novusolus I was watching some magnificent short movies (Kyle Canterbury iirc) on Vimeo & got autoplay-flashbanged by an ugly mean-spirited cringe comedy titled "Tea." Former had [---] views/4 likes on average after a decade; latter was screened at last Cannes. A practically private artform"
X Link 2025-08-22T22:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@em_Seq Where do you think MGS got all its ideas from Even the face injuring. Jokes aside maybe the dull "cinematic" desaturation. And handheld camera movements in MGSV were tangible instead of this weird in-between where even overhead shots bob a little despite not being POV-esque"
X Link 2025-08-27T20:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@em_Seq Correction: the camera bobbing was in the original MGS3 yet I feel some difference in smoothness here. It might be more of a framerate/animation-tweening thing. Or perhaps there being more contrast & definition of the models in the OG made them blur less. https://youtu.be/sIUpPZ2ARJwt=466 https://youtu.be/sIUpPZ2ARJwt=466"
X Link 2025-08-27T21:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@naranciagaming @em_Seq Motion blur that's probably it above all else yeah. Less obvious than with camera turns but it can make even normal speed model movements look uncanny to how we actually see. That + desaturation + less contrast in lighting & object coloring = death by a thousand cuts = yuck"
X Link 2025-08-27T22:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@TehSnakerer Is it better to be stranded in Sittingbourne or to be sitting in Strandedbourne"
X Link 2025-09-01T17:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@novusolus Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem had a similar problem in hiding most of those cool effects (and music) as a punishment behind low-heath states. If you wanted to see them you had to purposefully play badly & then competently straggle along near-death. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=n1AnjSEgxJs&t=120s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=n1AnjSEgxJs&t=120s"
X Link 2025-09-23T22:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Half-Life 2: New Times (2025) Starts with a rough Citadel section but by the second chapter becomes one of the greatest HL mods Episode One-adjacent apocalyptic aesthetics entail some of the most sinister sub-terrain & bleakest blast-scapes yet envisioned for the setting 1/X"
X Link 2025-09-25T00:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"2/X Traditional HL2 approach rendered in high polish once it gets going. Most of the assets are vanilla but careful architecture makes the venture feel more original. Like the late great Valve art director Viktor Antonov himself this team made even the ordinary entrancing"
X Link 2025-09-25T00:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"3/X One evidence of a great visual designer is when spaces nigh-identical in their utility (such as a simple A-to-B corridor) are yet distinct in every instance Similarity in a tangible-feeling world as opposed to mass-manufactured prefab spaces. One way good games feel free"
X Link 2025-09-25T00:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Looks as if Half-Life 2's Corpse01.mdl got an educational movie role https://x.com/EDENPOIS0N/status/1972393422951690404 https://youtu.be/2Ntynga55GY i cannot stop thinking about the art in "MAN AND SAFETY - PHYSIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS" some DOD instructional video from '63. here's the bit on "sleep deprivation" https://t.co/S8SYkFNo15 https://x.com/EDENPOIS0N/status/1972393422951690404 https://youtu.be/2Ntynga55GY i cannot stop thinking about the art in "MAN AND SAFETY - PHYSIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS" some DOD instructional video from '63. here's the bit on "sleep deprivation""
X Link 2025-09-28T23:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"31 Days of Horror VGM (October 2025) #1. Half-Life 2: Amalgam -- Safe Room Potent tone can benefit from a placid baseline or breaks. Brief respites make the fear contrast so as to avoid uniformity. Resident Evil's relief motifs have inspired many other works including HL mods"
X Link 2025-10-02T02:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"31 Days of Horror VGM (October 2025) #1. Potent tone can benefit from a placid baseline or brief breaks since respites make fears contrast so as to avoid uniformity. Resident Evil's relief motifs have inspired many other great works including HL mods. https://youtu.be/LTaUXK5EGjolist=PLaQC7D6gBh3NaGghKQE29i0r-DiUu5DRG https://youtu.be/LTaUXK5EGjolist=PLaQC7D6gBh3NaGghKQE29i0r-DiUu5DRG"
X Link 2025-10-02T03:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@novusolus Many examples of "the Chinese cinema" do come from Hong Kong & Taiwan but the rest has had many masters too Unsure what OP would consider "influential enough" -- surely Kar-wai & the action legends count -- but there are many unknown greats such as Zhang Nuanxin & docs as well"
X Link 2025-10-02T17:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@novusolus And as far as vidya goes well gatcha is not my thing & I haven't played much from China in general. But this richly-textured card adventure with some interesting scenarios & an amazing Middle-Eastern aesthetic is cool. As are Red Candle Games (Detention) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3117820/Sultans_Game/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3117820/Sultans_Game/"
X Link 2025-10-02T17:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"#2: Genre pieces that are far from scary yet have a distinctly "spooky" feel even in light form are also worth noting Here especially in the intro it's elements oscillating from elusive echoes to exciting reveals an anticipation (of the beat drop) https://youtu.be/gXV0PU91R-Qlist=PLVoerqML4MHiL14FWWK7QL9sdJoNbbhgk https://youtu.be/gXV0PU91R-Qlist=PLVoerqML4MHiL14FWWK7QL9sdJoNbbhgk"
X Link 2025-10-02T17:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"PTU (2003) Atmospheric Johnnie To thriller following a city's host of police & gangster factions intersecting across a volatile night When a dubious beat cop loses his gun various players help & antagonize him; organization as multifaceted tactile-yet-intangible force & image"
X Link 2025-10-03T02:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"#3: As memorable as jolly jingles & horrific howls can be the slightly uncanny can be as effective as extremity Silent Hill cutscene music often falls into this region but this Touhou fangame also adds portent by peppering dreamy drones with instability https://youtu.be/L-Nd1GJGcpUlist=PLgTOkNnK-z0OWLXbQMzNARninK2sTJszT https://youtu.be/L-Nd1GJGcpUlist=PLgTOkNnK-z0OWLXbQMzNARninK2sTJszT"
X Link 2025-10-03T21:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@RichardJuice Such a downer movie why make such a grueling story -- that according to defenders was meant to reflect financial hardships of the time; though the details didn't stick with me just the tone -- that the protags scrape a victory over only to yoink it away in the last few seconds"
X Link 2025-10-17T02:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Example of an advert/image controlling the frame And thereby minimizing the damage (or even spinning into a positive) what would be a major negative If you can't ignore a negative spin it on YOUR terms"
X Link 2022-08-29T06:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Ming Green (1966) Before leaving his home in New York Gregory J. Markopoulos filmed the spaces & objects he had made many memories with Not as mythic or sexual as most of his work yet a standout example of how textures & places left behind still linger in the mind On Vimeo"
X Link 2025-02-12T00:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Chamber (1977) From his first year of published filmmaking Joseph Bernard was already a master of appreciating detail in the everyday & translating it to exhilarating libidinal editing speed Interiors of homes bodies screens frames the camera itself On his official Vimeo"
X Link 2025-02-17T00:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Goff in theDesert (2003) Heinz Emigholz tributes architect Bruce Goff whose designs are among the most vividly spaced & lit in the Midwest USA An American-born talent who stands out for emphasis on geometric intricacy & natural harmony over sheer utility On demand at Vimeo"
X Link 2025-02-21T21:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"#17. As far as context goes sometimes what we consider music is equally qualified as sound effects. This is the case for the Thief OSTs which capture the levels' audio odysseys by splicing their various musical cues as well as environmental noises. https://youtu.be/XZViK3i-TJI https://youtu.be/XZViK3i-TJI"
X Link 2025-10-18T00:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@fujiprospecter Wonderful stuff good bit of variety from letting the sunlight into the frame vs blocking it to various degrees too"
X Link 2025-10-18T01:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"#18. And something similar could be said of multi-stage tracks which can be even more than the sum of their parts. Manhunt's John Carpenter-esque compositions can combine to tell stories of increasing endangerment. https://youtu.be/qZnu2yTcJVU https://youtu.be/qZnu2yTcJVU"
X Link 2025-10-19T00:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@alpinespirits That is such a good shot doesn't even leave the cat do all the heavy lifting alone Reminds me of Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle but in HD digital and with a cat on a complementing platform as a central subject in the "field" of light and leaves"
X Link 2025-10-19T18:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@fujiprospecter That is an AMAZING lens flare pattern. I might have to seek out one of these Cybershots myself"
X Link 2025-10-19T19:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@fujiprospecter That's the sort of thing that can be maddening in professional settings but wonderful just for the love of the game & capturing a moment as purely that one moment What's the particular model of Cybershot here btw"
X Link 2025-10-19T19:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"#20. Still music usually elevates already great games. This area in FAITH is not as dangerous as most others but the primal oscillations make it feel so in the moment. The descending horror of that transitory space between the calm & the storm itself. https://youtu.be/mj5bJ9n2qFE https://youtu.be/mj5bJ9n2qFE"
X Link 2025-10-21T02:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"#21. And games not known chiefly for horror elements can still be greatly complemented by them. This part frightened me as a kid as sudden death from the plunging facility you must escape from as this plays seemed as likely as being swarmed by foes. https://youtu.be/mTXeNWv0LmE https://youtu.be/mTXeNWv0LmE"
X Link 2025-10-22T04:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@thorncube Good potential in that mirror for photography. Something high-contrast to complement the sharp outline"
X Link 2025-10-22T05:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Jauna_K Indeed even the non-catchy Deus Ex themes are classics. For that matter the mostly lowkey Invisible War did have some surprisingly potent horror music in the Antarctica section. This one's great & "Arrival" and "Power Generator" are even more abrasive. https://youtu.be/K_snu_4PyYs https://youtu.be/K_snu_4PyYs"
X Link 2025-10-22T19:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"#22. A few of the most potent VGM horrors come from unexpected places such as this Pink Panther song. Sometimes a game will throw out a sudden shock just because. Why not if the moment's remotely grim enough for it anyway Give 'em something to remember. https://youtu.be/slUXvIpgLfI https://youtu.be/slUXvIpgLfI"
X Link 2025-10-22T19:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"#23. Speaking of context some dear memories of mine are relevant to horror VGM. I once played some Quake co-op with a friend well-versed in dark ambient who was taken aback by this one. Composed using manipulated sound effects to fit on the N64 cartridge. https://youtu.be/wjp9-gCtJpo https://youtu.be/wjp9-gCtJpo"
X Link 2025-10-24T04:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@rose_phantasm The original Quake is still one of the best FPSes in terms of gameplay imo. In '96 Trent Reznor's soundtrack was uncontested as the scariest in a game yet (save for Aubrey Hodges's Doom PS1 in '95). It & the N64 OST: elite. Inspired fanmade wonders too https://youtu.be/VNa7Xx5ub6c https://youtu.be/VNa7Xx5ub6c"
X Link 2025-10-24T06:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"#29. While wordless the final boss theme of Silent Hill [--] perfectly captures not only an emotional state but even a development & exchange. A moment of placidity boils into fury with brief gasps of silence as if to emulate the breaks in a heated argument. https://youtu.be/-TbFv6i-5TI https://youtu.be/-TbFv6i-5TI"
X Link 2025-10-29T19:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"#30. With the Dead Space soundtracks Jason Graves reminds us that even aesthetics as saturated as tense orchestral strings can be revitalized with enough ingenuity. Phonics as physical and aggressive: shivers swarms scratches. https://youtu.be/RZ01gTCio1k https://youtu.be/RZ01gTCio1k"
X Link 2025-10-31T00:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"#31. In Kane & Lynch [--] Mona Mur's environmental sampling meets unfettered unsettlement. Tension of the objective (field recordings capturing city stimulations) being brought into subjective psychology sound indicating an ambiguous but omnipresent threat. https://youtu.be/bJAS1-EqaYg https://youtu.be/bJAS1-EqaYg"
X Link 2025-10-31T22:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"#31. In Kane & Lynch [--] Mona Mur's environmental sampling meets unfettered unsettlement. Tension of the objective (field recordings capturing city stimulations) being brought into subjective psychology sound indicating an ambiguous but omnipresent threat. https://youtu.be/xzp-0vLc_hYlist=PLaQC7D6gBh3ML0HTqXdixxNvRz_Yp729W https://youtu.be/xzp-0vLc_hYlist=PLaQC7D6gBh3ML0HTqXdixxNvRz_Yp729W"
X Link 2025-10-31T22:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@rippersdelight @maddieaf6 What external memory do you recommend Its about time I got some more multi-TB hard drives"
X Link 2025-11-03T17:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@novusolus Bad art (and discourse) not capturing/interpreting reality so much as being a closed loop of signifiers Among psychosexual monster movies of the moment GDT fails despite having Hollywood & a great novel to work with yet cartoon Chainsaw Man: Reze is way more incisive & tactile"
X Link 2025-11-16T18:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@hekkycastillo Tone isn't for everyone but NGE's clearly about being underexperienced overwhelmed (religious motifs less "message to decode" more "about doomscrolling") & wanting to escape from or into others Differences can be confusing & connections difficult but necessary for definition"
X Link 2025-11-16T19:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@photograffiti "Axolotl Wooper Loopers Lair" sounds like prime real estate"
X Link 2025-11-18T03:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@novusolus My uncle who works at Valve tells me that's just a title they're using to keep their project under wraps. it's actually going to be titled Half-Life 2: Found Coast"
X Link 2025-11-18T04:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Elohemian @nin10doland Other M music is also way better than it gets credit for. but also a mismatch since it's hard to appreciate the scariest dark ambient in the series when you're doing the most outlandish activities in the series. Imagine this in more atmospheric gameplay. https://youtu.be/Jkin8tWuLEY https://youtu.be/Jkin8tWuLEY"
X Link 2025-11-22T23:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@rippersdelight @maddieaf6 I & others would love an in-depth breakdown on archival hardware with your expertise sometime. That setup you recced sounds good but would it be ok for watching movies & playing (not resource-intensive) games directly from the HDDs Or would that setup be for cold storage only"
X Link 2026-01-01T02:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@H4TESEX Nice depth via diagonals and an interesting contrast of those depth-lending light poles with the more "2D" tableau-aligned trees in the foreground which are even silhouetted to give more of a flattened effect"
X Link 2026-01-02T00:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Lights (1966) Marie Menken spins variations on decorations to show how many ways there are to represent similar subjects every approach to extending one's perception & physicality a multiplier to potentials @artandtrash_ has a must-watch upload with audio commentary on YouTube"
X Link 2026-01-03T02:05Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Diffusion is sort of a Half-Life [--] mod using a GoldSource fork called Xash3D to achieve extra-impressive environments Fragility & a dash make gameplay fresh & frantic but the main draw is some of the most gorgeous mapping in gaming including nature-tech harmony & cozy alcoves"
X Link 2026-01-04T22:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@gatekperkiller_ Yeah I'm ambivalent on "gatekeeping" myself -- on the one hand great work should be appreciated yet artists/restorers should be supported & even "trading" encourages new stuff to be introduced -- but making up slander isn't cool Be careful & good luck on your better missions"
X Link 2026-01-07T23:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Enter the Fat Dragon (1978) Talented martial artist/director Sammo Hung tributes Bruce Lee by not imitating his likeness so much as playing a goof imitating his likeness Aspirational bravado gets into trouble but also demonstrates real skill when needed against genre pastiches"
X Link 2026-01-08T02:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@novusolus Guy with 24.3k posts (mostly of the whiny striving sort) since being on Twitter since he was [--] years old regrets time spent with art vows to make amends by hitting 25k soon via more money-pining & Mr. Beast reuploads"
X Link 2026-01-16T22:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"2/X Eclipsium is hard to praise without spoiling specific moments so for now suffice to say that there are few other games simultaneously as directly simple yet tangible as how you navigate & engage with a setting (and a character with his own surprising agency in movements)"
X Link 2026-01-16T22:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@JosiahAngcanan shares his filmography -- a recent moviemaker yet already impressive & varied -- on his Vimeo Check out his work which includes other shorts & features that demonstrate many ideas for microbudget moviemaking https://vimeo.com/1126868158 https://vimeo.com/1126868158"
X Link 2026-01-22T22:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"River Film (1972) Virtually no one glided a camera or edited a blitz like pilot Robert Fulton. This nature short is a prime example of his switchups between speeds & densities of images held steady by ASMR-esque audio Support the astounding restorers at ref3collection vhx tv"
X Link 2026-01-18T22:07Z [---] followers, 19.8K engagements
"Emerald Necklace (2016) For the first part of his Human Nature quartet Robert Todd films Massachusetts landscapes shaped in part by major architect Frederick Law Olmsted Nature spaces somewhat ordered to human tastes somewhat allowed to feel "wild" for human tastes On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-19T08:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Over Water (2015) The second entry in Robert Todd's Human Nature quartet begins with psychological kinetics in its footage of waterways yet sharply contrasts with more "objective" images later Apparently interrogates representation itself; multiple modes & impressions On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-19T23:29Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Artificial Atmospheres (2016) The penultimate entry in Robert Todd's Human Nature quartet resembles Harun Farocki in its foregrounding tech's reinterpretations Subjects variated by mediums & implications: a landscape as airflow data impressionism as a bag on the lens On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-20T22:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"The Hills (2016) Robert Todd concludes his Human Nature quartet with a consideration of the literal partitioning of space for aesthetic play extraction etc Nature is inherently unordered but it's human nature to draw (and sometimes cross) boundaries & relationships On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-21T21:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Human Nature (2016) Comprised of four shorts -- Emerald Necklace Over Water Artificial Atmospheres & The Hills -- this quartet by Robert Todd considers different ways humanity shapes wilderness & presents information in art foregrounding tone & our constructing it On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-22T01:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Pistolis Twilight (2025) Josiah Angcanan in the tradition of house-set movies like those by Stan Brakhage & Nicky Hamlyn recognizes curious sights in the most ordinary environs A microscopic study also demonstrating the degrees of digital's clarity & saturation On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-22T04:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Water Seeking its Level (2002) Leighton Pierce and his daughter enjoy a day at a stream recorded at a blurred framerate & fuzziness of detail that resembles watercolor the short itself viscously (but gently) warbling in shape On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-22T22:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Three Shores (2023) In this middle-length Benning-esque landscape movie Damien Cattinari traverses various waterways in degrees of civilization Shots extend for minutes yet have surprising activity: birds in flight machines in operation planes of space revealed. On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-23T06:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@joeviewtiful22 "Festival" FOMO is a cute sentiment that doesn't hold up to reality. Events playable after debuts are cool but read up how (former) players of say Destiny like "sunsetting" art they paid for or would've destroyed into lost media. Meanwhile Runescape respects its past & grows"
X Link 2026-01-27T06:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Elegy (2006) John Warren tributes an elderly loved one with images that feel like the slipping of time & an approach of something greater Spells out themes with text cards but more potent in film footage so bright as to resemble a past/future vision burning into light On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-27T07:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@LehtonenThe Not to imply it was full-on austere but I preferred Better Call Saul's frequently tableau style a bit over Breaking Bad's more frantically subjective style. A good fit for a story with the ending somewhat pre-determined & the point of interest being more observing the path to it"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"ROYGBIV (2017) Dan Browne whisks a camera into the trees & into a tunnel. Not both at the same time but seemingly so via shots layered in such a way as to be totally redefined in each variation One of the most impressive & compact two-minute short movies ever On Vimeo"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Jagko / Pursuit of Death (1980) Im Kwon-taek took a major step toward being arguably South Korea's greatest director with this drama spanning decades of turmoil A cop struggling to overcome injuries & personal flaws is the last who cares to catch a fled war criminal On YouTube"
X Link 2026-01-30T03:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"The Belly of an Architect (1987) Peter Greenaway equates structure to fatalism in this drama of a designer whose desire to tribute an inspiration is obstructed by the greed & passions of others (and himself) Locations presented as points in an circuit disrupted by spontaneities"
X Link 2026-01-31T00:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"in.side.out (1999) With turn-of-the-millennium digital Scott Stark recorded images of the destruction of a neighboring derelict house with surprising evocativeness even limited to a distant perspective Motifs gradually expand to show more spatial context & time passing Vimeo"
X Link 2026-02-03T03:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"My Falcon / Mein Falke (2023) A forensicist is overwhelmed by the morbidity of work & strained relations but curious confrontations offer new perspectives on life socially & literally Dominik Graf gracefully & meaningfully navigates disparate yet precise dramatic encounters"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Cursed Objects (2019) This true-crime short by Daniel Watkins recalls Landscape Suicide by James Benning in its tracing locations loosely related to real murders L.A.'s Hillside Stranglers roamed backroads that VHS-emulating images find barely remembered by civilization Vimeo"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:02Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"garden where nothing grows (2014) This entry in Jake Barningham's 70-part Czechia Videos series utilizes his rephotography penchants to a somewhat three-dimensional effect Shadows sweep to obscure but details behind abstract scribbles also "emerge" like plant growth Youtube"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Munich: Secrets of a City (2000) Dominik Graf & Michael Althen created arguably the greatest city symphony with this sensual multimedia odyssey Essays & skits see network as sonder all individuals taking their paths due to chance & seeking to understand and be something else"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@KEMOgroyper Not only has SKG already done the medium a service by opposing disposability Ross's reviews do more for appreciating art with genuine curiosity than your lame fashion statements -- "Please look I'm smarter than everyone else for not caring about scummy practices" -- ever will"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@segobrigense Not as much blocking as your examples but this image from Boorman's Deliverance (1972) especially comes to mind as this type of shot establishing a sort of "spectator at the cusp of a portal" dynamic. The lighting (front & back) goes a long way for this effect"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
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