Scratching the film surface can be a metaphor for scratching the body scratching the skin defacing the body getting rid of that itch
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  Closed Eye Vision; you can put food dye on a toothbrush, spray it on some film and it'll look like this   Closed-eye vision is a term that refers to the shapes, particles, dust, afterimages that appear on the surface of our eye whether they are open or closed. These objects float across our screens, leave negative traces of their flash and vibrate in patterns from putting pressures directly on the eye itself. This is our own organic noise that gets filtered out of "the image" because it is deemed to be useless. This uselessness covers everything we see.
 
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