Two minutes of static that'll make your eyeballs question their life choices.
Static Discharge is composed of abstractions created from signal interference. The picture frame is continuously disrupted, as textured lines of feedback distort any form of representation. The flickering movement appears as if fed by an electric current with a faulty conductor - the electronic waves seem to split and repeat themselves without fully transmitting. This is a composition of video noise that creates pulsating tension, a s electricity grinds with flesh, revealing the harsh beauty inherent in a mechanical medium.
Editing
Signal interference as deliberate, violent composition.
Sound
Electric hum that crawls under your skin.
Director
Jowita Kepa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kepa's work sits in the 2000s glitch art movement, where VHS decay became an aesthetic language rather than failure.
The title's pun — 'static discharge' as both electrical phenomenon and the bleeding of fixed meaning — suggests the film destroys itself to exist.
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