My self portrait was difficult to make. I knew it would be time consuming. There were times that I feared that the exports from datamoshing would break my MacBook. I continued to make the film though despite the effort and time it took to make it. It was difficult to find space in which I could access the emotions in my brain I wanted to express in the video. I took many videos of my eye for example and I really wanted my eye to communicate pain and so I would sit in front of the camera and play music that reminded me of certain things and I would try my best to go to the places that were difficult to face. I struggled to learn the software for data moshing as well. There was a learning curve that I had to learn that was even more difficult considering that each time I edited, a new video would export. The audio was difficult to conceptualize as well. I did not go into the video with an idea of the audio track since for me the video was more visually oriented. I ended up writing something very personal for me and then decided to distort the audio to match the distortion of the image. After I showed the film in class I added music as well. I am now happy with how it turned out. There are things in there that make me sweat but to others there is just pixels and a dark tone. I wanted the content to be anonymous. I am ultimately happy with the final product. This datamoshing with my own footage is something I am interested in revisiting soon.