Michael Brunner – Slow Def
Now obviously we’ve seen a lot of edits go for the old low-fi, VHS vibe since Gnar Gnar and the early Palace vids repopularised it, but I don’t think I’d ever heard of anyone going to the lengths Quentin Delebecque did to recreate it. From what I understood all this VX footage went from DV tapes to his computer, where it was edited, then transferred onto the oldest VHS he could get his hands on, then uploaded back onto a computer so it could be sent our way. So yeah, a lot of effort to on paper essentially make your footage look worse, but I think there was something cathartic to the process. Michael Brunner was only in Paris – where him and Quentin became close – for a limited amount of time and the idea was to revisit the feeling of digitalising memories from forgotten holiday movies… There was also an incident with the tape his ender was filmed on also getting trapped in the camera and having to get cut out out and stuck back together, which – again from what I gathered – only added to this desire to explore the limits of what can be done with these prehistoric recording devices. The intro is a voice note from a very confused Michael when for a hot minute they thought the nollie hardflip wouldn’t be salvageable, and a nod to their journey with the whole thing…
