essay 2

The excess and sobriety of blur
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Against the tide of modernity, the blur echoes our own humanity: it is a space for frustration and uncertainty, but also for liberation and interpretation, both an object of destruction and creation. Artificially kept alive, the poor image now navigates between authenticity and cynicism, taking shape in nostalgia and the cult of poverty, but also in the activism of visual sobriety.

Could it be that a faint detail of digital history, such as the death of a dripping JPEG, could have the privilege of being at the center of this modest essay?

In the programme: low budget films, the Asylum (mockbusters), visual sobriety, ecology & Internet, design, hygiene and Butter Bar...