We accept the media as reality. Glitch art can help us understand it’s not reality, but a mere digital illusion. In this video, I am exploring a glitch in society. Taking footage of women and mashing them together to question gender roles. A clip of the Rockettes with their eye-high kicks is fused with goose-stepping female commandos and submissive puritanical female forms. Throughout the entire clip, I use pixel sorting to further illustrate this disparity.

I mostly used the alpha channel to trigger and sort the pixels by luminosity. Throughout the video, I'm using angles and thresholds to move from abstracted color fields to an almost animated look of the footage. In the final scene, the women find themselves submitting to the religious order.

The music comes from Jacques Offenbach, who composed music for the can-can – a revolutionary feminist dance now associated with the Moulin Rouge. It features vigorous manipulation of skirts and petticoats, as well as high kicks, splits and cartwheels.

It seems that women’s rights are under attack at the moment. Exactly as the me-too movement continues to play out.