stackyFACTSWhy make a nice, pleasant movie when you can induce a migraine instead?
Why make a nice, pleasant movie when you can induce a migraine instead? Canadian artist Jack Chambers wasn't interested in traditional storytelling. His avant-garde flicker films aggressively spliced alternating frames of light and dark to create a harsh optical strobe effect. It was less of a cinematic experience and more of a direct physical assault on the viewer's optic nerve, proving that sometimes 'art' is just a fancy word for visual torture.
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