Nature, too, is a video editor: The passage of time, with the help of humidity and high temperatures, undermines the magnetic organization of a videotape, modifying both image and sound. Even before hundreds of digital tools for modifying recordings, analog videos could also be altered, subverting the snapshots of reality they purported to hold. In our age of Photoshop and deepfakes, we tend to think of digital media as uniquely corruptible and easily manipulated, but physical media wasn’t infallible, either. By 2016, when the last company manufacturing VHS tapes, Funai, ceased production, the format had been around for 40 years.
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Aspiring movie makers toyed around with the new possibilities opened up by this technological democratization. Throughout the era, recorders became more affordable, and families began to capture their own memories for posterity. Tapes were a popular medium for distributing movies (and even some games) for decades, becoming commonplace throughout the ’80s and ’90s. The problem is, there’s no way to prove that any of these scenes ever really existed. Then, a shore that invites you to play with its pines, stretching them and distorting what seems to be one of the few remaining pieces of a lost memory. A calm trip down a road in the middle of nowhere. A big tree in a dark forest, leaves floating in the air with a black tint.
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The puzzles within all center on seemingly abandoned machinery, all switches to flip and valves to turn.īut there are also cassette tapes scattered around, apparently serving as windows into what the world used to look like before. From a pulled-back viewpoint, you spin around factory towers, clicking on doors to shift to an equally detached side view of the interior rooms. In fact, your interactions with the game play out from a decidedly nonhuman perspective. Small Radios Big Televisions pictures the aftermath of a world gone wrong. The sound grows louder and louder as the figures get closer to the camera. A noise repeats in the background, but you can’t quite make out where it’s coming from. Distorted figures appear within the frame, splashed by green and purple stains. An image fades into view, but what it’s supposed to depict is unclear.
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