ROGEFEST 2k25 Intermission Backdrop

Three minutes of anime and Sega Genesis footage put through circuit-bent video gear and left to break apart, made to run behind the intermission at ROGEFEST 2k25.

The picture is built on hardware rather than in a timeline. A circuit-bent SIMA FX Video Ed/it 4 does the damage, a custom dirty mixer feeds and bends it, and a Vidicraft Detailer II and PROC Amp handle level and detail on the way out. Nothing in it was generated on a computer — the computers only played the source tape.

That source is Dimension Bomb by Koji Morimoto, interlaced with real-time footage of the Ecco the Dolphin attract mode running on a Genesis emulator on a Retro-Pi. Two kinds of eighties-and-nineties cartoon-video collapse — a hand-drawn film and a sixteen-bit loop — fed into the same chain until the colour separates into its channels and the scanlines take over.

It's meant as texture, not narrative: a backdrop for a room between sets, where people look up for a moment and then go back to talking. Three minutes, on the DJ x86 channel.