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This list WILL cause seizures in people affected by photosensitive epilepsy. Reader discretion is advised.
Largely eschewing all representational photographed imagery flicker film rather is characterized by its strobe light that often comes in rhythmic fashion and can create an illusion of shapes and images on screen or have a hypnotic effect.
Eligible films:
The boundaries are blurry but the majority of the film should be concerned with flashing images that last for perhaps a few frames or with pulsating images that are liable to create some sort of optical illusion or have a hallucinatory effect. Includes analog and digital works although film and senior works have something of an edge.
The order of the list is more or…
WARNING!
This list WILL cause seizures in people affected by photosensitive epilepsy. Reader discretion is advised.
Largely eschewing all representational photographed imagery flicker film rather is characterized by its strobe light that often comes in rhythmic fashion and can create an illusion of shapes and images on screen or have a hypnotic effect.
Eligible films:
The boundaries are blurry but the majority of the film should be concerned with flashing images that last for perhaps a few frames or with pulsating images that are liable to create some sort of optical illusion or have a hallucinatory effect. Includes analog and digital works although film and senior works have something of an edge.
The order of the list is more or less determined by the purity of the films, beginning with the most basic and structuralist ones that only work with light and dark frames to films using more intricate or open-ended concepts and more complex patterns and images. The latter films also tend to diverge farthest from the original concept of the flicker film but they do, I think...I hope, maintain something of the original spirit. They may also be equals if not even superior in terms of either their structuralist interests or their visceral effect on the viewer, or ideally they have something to offer on both levels.
Recommendations are welcome.
