There's something about the nature of the tape, the grain of the image, the sputtering black-and- white tones, the starkness-you think this is more real, truer to life than anything around you. The things around you have a rehearsed and layered and cosmetic look. The tape is superreal, or maybe underreal is the way you want to put it. It is what lies at the scraped bottom of all the layers you have added. And this is another reason why you keep on looking. The tape has a searing realness."-Don DeLillo