This film has one of the best song choices I have ever heard for a sequence in my entire life. I already loved “Beware of Darkness” but wow, truly.
The work is titled incorrectly on Letterboxd. Butler's piece is called ON EXACTITUDE IN SCIENCE (2017). The KoyaanisGTAV portion cannot be watched alone or it will be without sound, which is not intended or recommended.
In the early 2000s, the Nam June Paik Estate worked with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) to migrate and transcode the original 3/4" U-Matic tape to YUV 10-bit video and PCM 16-bit audio codecs. As magnetic tape only has approximately a 20-year shelf life, this was a conservation necessity. I know this because I'm working directly on a related project.
That said, what are the implications of removing visual information from a container, devised by the artist with intention to experiment…