The VHS fever dream that accidentally invented an entire internet aesthetic.
Created entirely from YouTube videos and edited in Windows Movie Maker, Lopatin recomposes outmoded video graphic landscapes via repetition and abuse.
Editing
Windows Movie Maker as deliberate artistic weapon.
Sound
Smoothed jazz and corporate muzak weaponized into dreamstate.
Director
Daniel Lopatin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This short single-handedly codified vaporwave's visual language: Roman busts, corporate logos, and degraded 90s footage.
Lopatin sourced everything from random YouTube deep dives, including a Japanese exercise video that became the film's haunting centerpiece.
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