"Startle Pattern" is a deconstruction of spectatorship and authorship in the moving image. In the late age of film, emulsion, this essay is a call of the cinematic gaze to a state of crisis. An interior space of a puppet becomes increasingly reflective, revealing the artifice of his own creation, and leaving his form tattered and decayed. The narrative of isolation hints at the film Protagonist#s delicate relationship with reality, voyeurism and the apparatus.