David Finkelstein wrote a review of my movie serial Going Somewhere for Film International called
"Recombinant Modification of Sci Fi Going Somewhere (2015)" that's available online:
Something fascinating and strange is going on in Going Somewhere, an ongoing movie serial by Michael Betancourt, with individual episodes which are all 7 minutes long. The source material for these digital mini-epics comes from a variety of science and science fiction materials: old Grade Z Sci Fi epics, civil defense films and WWII documentaries, NASA footage. Betancourt uses sophisticated datamoshing and databending techniques to completely transform these materials. These techniques reach inside of the numbers which store digital video and mess up the data in more or less controlled ways that morph one image into the next. They allow Betancourt to radically change the original colors and forms.
Also available as a [pdf] for download
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