Harun Farocki’s “Parallel vol 1” exhibits how the digital representation of water, trees, fire, and clouds in video games have progressed over time. The video highlights the transformation from simply pixelated squares to realistic movements. The advanced CPGs have made distinguishing a video game from film difficult, as seen by the side-by-side moving clouds example. Farocki argues that computer images seek to relieve film of its duty to depict reality. This argument is similar to that made by Bazin regarding photography and painting. “Photography, in fulfilling the aspirations of the Baroque, freed the visual arts from their obsession with resemblance” (Bazin 6). Video games have opened the door to creating an in motion world were both reality
