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# The beauty of Hayao Miyazaki and VHS glitches
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/the-beauty-of-hayao-miyazaki-and-vhs-glitches/
- Published: 2016-04-25T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-04-25T08:12:11.000Z
- Description: The first time I ever watched Princess Mononoke (1997) was on a grainy bootleg from a relative. I was a kid, maybe nine-years-old, but the otherwise beautiful film’s terrible quality was ingrained in my psyche. Since I was only nine, its fuzziness didn’t bother me. It wasn’t until I was much older,
- Author: Caty Mccarthy
- Tags: News, Art, glitch art, Hayao Miyazaki, hyo taek kim, nostalgia, VHS, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

The first time I ever watched *Princess Mononoke* (1997) was on a grainy bootleg from a relative. I was a kid, maybe nine-years-old, but the otherwise beautiful film’s terrible quality was ingrained in my psyche. Since I was only nine, its fuzziness didn’t bother me. It wasn’t until I was much older, and more appreciative of the crisp existence of blu-rays, that I was able to rewatch the film and re-fall in love with it all over again.

Still, that first grainy take on the film rests as my first “true” experience with a Hayao Miyazaki film, and was my gateway into the legendary animator’s other classic works. While my first viewing of a Miyazaki film wasn’t on an arbitrary VHS like many others, [Hyo Taek Kim](http://www.mikoyh.com/?ref=killscreen.com)’s glitch art series of distorting Miyazaki’s imagery, chimes into a similar feeling. That glitch-prone, off-kilter feeling a lot of our generation share in experiencing Miyazaki’s magic for the first time in our youth—even on something as shabby as a VHS tape or bootleg.

“Ghibli’s the master of creating emotions”

Kim, a Brazilian-Korean designer, isn’t a stranger to channeling his love for Miyazaki into his works. In the past, he’s divvied up films into [minimalistic color palettes](https://www.curioos.com/product/print/the-colors-of-kikis-delivery-service?ref=killscreen.com) (including some of Miyazaki’s films), and aptly redesigned Andy Warhol’s classic Campbell soup can series, but [theming the cans after Miyazaki’s filmography](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/miyazaki-warhol-campbells-soup-cans?ref=killscreen.com). With the glitch art series, Kim marries the distorted-VHS aesthetic that he grew up with to the Miyazaki characters he loved the most, creating a wholly unique blend of nostalgia and modern (since Kim even borrows characters from Miyazaki’s post-90s films). As Kim [told *The Creator’s Project*](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en%5Fuk/blog/glitched-miyazaki-characters-vhs?ref=killscreen.com), “Ghibli is the master of creating emotions, and I love to revisit these moments whenever I get the chance.” Whether it’s moments of nostalgia in watching VHS tapes, or even just the feelings of empowerment that emit from the films themselves.

![yubaba](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/819210d08cc52591ee7fcc84ded4013d.jpg.gif)

![catbus](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/59d452af32e506bf8af577a88c997f91.jpg.gif)

Characters from Miyazaki’s *Spirited Away* (2001), *My Neighbor Totoro* (1988), *Howl’s Moving Castle* (2004), *Ponyo* (2008), *Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind* (1984), *Kiki’s Delivery Service* (1989), and *Princess Mononoke* are all represented in Kim’s discolored homage to VHS glitches. There’s something palpably nostalgic about glitches, whether they’re of the videogame variety of restarting a game over and over again to make it work, or the bastardized quality of collected VHS tapes. The VHS-glitch harkens back to being a kid, and watching your favorite movie over and over again, that is, until the tape dies.

*You can purchase prints of Kim’s Miyazaki glitch art* [*here*](https://www.curioos.com/hyos?ref=killscreen.com)*.*

*Via* [*The Creator’s Project*](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en%5Fuk/blog/glitched-miyazaki-characters-vhs?ref=killscreen.com)*.*