The weird, wonderful world of Miles Buckle, Instagram's parallel universe of video games
Going through Miles Buckle's Instagram feed is like stumbling into a parallel universe where cinema's greats – Lynch, Hitchcock, Fellini, Kubrick – are reimagined in the familiar but distinctly different visual language of video games.
Going through Miles Buckle's Instagram feed is like stumbling into a parallel universe where cinema's greats – Lynch, Hitchcock, Fellini, Kubrick – are reimagined in the familiar but distinctly different visual language of video games.
The short version
- The " here's Johnny " scene from The Shining, where Jack Nicholson terrorises Shelley Duvall, recreated in the stilted comedic style of The Sims 2 .
- The opening sequence of Twin Peaks told through the landscapes of SimCity 2000 – one of several "orthographic experiments" that Buckle has done using the most iconic Maxis game of my childhood.
- A low-poly Peter Finch doing the Oscar-winning "I'm a human being, god dammit!" monologue from Sidney Lumet's classic Network.
What happened
Perfect fever dreams that can't and won't exist outside of these short clips. A feed of incredible, but totally imagionary retro-style video games becomes a window into nostalgia and fiction.
Why it matters
Mac, Nintendo GBA, PC, PS1, PS3, PSP, SEGA Saturn, SNES, Windows Phone.
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