The Letter and the Fly

A layered refraction of F. W. Murnau’s classic German Expressionist film Nosferatu (1922), Barbara Lattanzi’s The Letter and the Fly re-edits the film as an interactive work of “low bandwidth cinema.” Each fragmented word or low-res image coalesces on the screen as a part of the download process—a process that shifts as the user moves her mouse across the screen. In this way, Lattanzi’s web applets collapse the separate experiences of film viewing and editing into a single instant.

Interactive video and Javascript

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