Flicker Film
Experimental film built from alternating black and white or colored frames, creating pulses of light on screen. Tony Conrad's 1966 film The Flicker is the best-known example, and it can cause strong visual afterimages.
Spot it
- 01Rapid black-white strobing
- 02Afterimage color halos
- 03Pulsing full-frame light
Why it happens
Alternating frames at a steady rate stimulate the visual system periodically, producing illusory colors, moving patterns and afterimages that the film itself does not contain.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image-to-video prompt“Animate this image as a 1960s flicker film: alternate frames of the image with pure white and pure black at a fast rhythm, accelerating over six seconds, with faint colored afterimage halos and projector grain. Hard cuts only, locked frame. Keep the original subject and composition in the image frames.”
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