Published in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 5.4, 2019 and reviewed by Steve Anderson (UCLA) and Tessa Dwyer (Monash University, Australia). Link to film and reviews.
* Sight and Sound, Best Video Essays of 2019
47 minutes, 2K DCP, 5.1 surround.
Without a doubt, Visual Disturbances is a tour de force and, at 47 minutes, it’s the longest video essay ever to be published by [In]Transition. More importantly, it is an exemplar of the form, posing an argument that moves beyond illustration to propose a new theory of cinema viewership that Faden terms the “invisible cinema.” Its argument is most convincingly realized neither through the copious words of the narrator nor the lavishly quoted scenes from the work of Jacques Tati and others, but through the conjunction of word, image and computational analysis.
– Steve Anderson (UCLA)