Glitch Gestalt

Glitch Gestalt Making Things. Art, Photography, Video, Music.

06/04/2026

We never actually see the real Ilya in Vegas. We only see Shane's experience of Ilya. How the choices of what the camera shows us controls who we empathize with and the understanding we have of the story.

06/03/2026

Heated Rivalry’s Rachel Reid isn’t the only one to accidentally write an autistic character when she wrote Shane. I’ve done it too, and it changed my life.

06/03/2026

Heated Rivalry and Mr. Robot both use one of my favorite cinematography styles - Quadrant Framing.

06/01/2026

Can you tell the potential of an actor like Heated Rivalry's Connor Storrie from just one performance? Absolutely. Here's just a few other examples of actors I just knew were going to have incredible careers after one performance.

05/31/2026

Heated Rivalry's cinematography challenges how film language is allowed to look at men.

05/31/2026

The Heated Rivalry sunset beach scene is a beautiful visual representation of Shane and Ilya having to choose between finding their own sunshine or moving back into the shadows.

05/29/2026

The Heated Rivalry awards ceremony bathroom scene repeats a lot of visual and emotional themes that were established between Shane and Ilya in the Gym scene in episode one.

05/28/2026

Heated Rivalry uses a very specific framing for Ilya Rozanov that it doesn’t use for any other character in the show and here’s how that impacts how the audience sees Ilya’s character and emotional state.

05/28/2026

Storytelling and catharsis. Emotional experiences can literally rewrite neural pathways.

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