strobe lighting

British  

noun

1. a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc

2. the use of or the apparatus for producing such light

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Example Sentences

I am about to be subjected to strobe lighting while music plays – as part of a research project trying to understand what makes us truly human.

From BBC

The film was shocking and appalling and shot in a dizzying style with circling camerawork and strobe lighting that was as likely to nauseate viewers as the vicious and visceral content on screen made them wince and cringe and head up the aisles.

From Salon

Strobe lighting froze them in brief snapshots; in one such, they reached for each other.

From New York Times

The film-within-a-film ends with an on-set disaster — a burst of nightmarish imagery, all retina-scalding neon hues and strobe lighting effects — that might, for Noé, qualify as a kind of miracle.

From Los Angeles Times

He also brought a dog on to the set, which jumped up in shock at the flash of the strobe lighting, perfectly capturing the kind of avant garde chaos Bowie had intended for his dystopian album, influenced by George Orwell’s 1984.

From The Guardian