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Utilizing the commercial genre of movie trailers, this video deals with generalizations, patterns, emotional triggers and the constant need for higher climaxes, bigger surprises and deeper emotional responses. The video was created using a custom software that extracts pixels from various trailers and places each on a grid in the corresponding frame of the final video, while enlarging the size of each pixel, making it more prominent. The new incomprehensible trailer, created in this way, is an attempt to turn the well known structure of trailers into a generic and detached experience of chaotically emotional greatness, familiar yet unrecognizable. Much as a trailer can be regarded as a compression of an entire movie, this video is a compression of the compression of dozens of movies. It is a trailer for all trailers, combining their sights and sounds in such a way that only a machine can fully comprehend. It is a commentary on the abundance of data in the information age and out inability to process it.

Farber Liliana