The Feral Glitch

Eddie Lohmeyer builds this essay from archival film and game footage that he has cut apart and deliberately corrupted. His subject is the glitch. He starts in 1979, when Jamie Faye Fenton, a trans programmer who had helped write the console's code, pulled a cartridge from a running Bally Astrocade and hit the machine, producing Digital TV Dinner. He follows that gesture to a deer loose in Grand Theft Auto V, and to a game where you play as a river.