Do you still own any VHS tapes? In 2019, the video recording cassettes hold more in common with horror anthologies, overused internet aesthetics, and cheap iPhone filters than the actual analog format that shaped a generation. Nevertheless, if she were still alive today, Marion Stokes may have contributed a handful of thought-provoking diatribes on the purity of analog instruments versus the intangibility of digital constructs—it certainly would not be out of her character.

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