The weird, wonderful world of Miles Buckle, Instagram's parallel universe of video games

Going done Miles Buckle's Instagram feed is similar stumbling into a parallel beingness wherever cinema's greats – Lynch, Hitchcock, Fellini, Kubrick – are reimagined successful the acquainted but distinctly antithetic ocular connection of video games. The "here's Johnny" country from The Shining, wherever Jack Nicholson terrorises Shelley Duvall, recreated successful the stilted comedic benignant of The Sims 2. The opening series of Twin Peaks told done the landscapes of SimCity 2000 – 1 of respective "orthographic experiments" that Buckle has done utilizing the astir iconic Maxis crippled of my childhood. A low-poly Peter Finch doing the Oscar-winning "I'm a quality being, deity dammit!" monologue from Sidney Lumet's classical Network. Perfect fever dreams that can't and won't beryllium extracurricular of these abbreviated clips.

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