1
: a durable plain-woven usually cotton fabric for use in clothing, curtains, building, and industry
2
: a theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted
3
: something likened to a theater scrim
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My scrim between reality and memory, truth and simulation, had become porous, faulty.
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Sophie Brickman, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2025
The curtain operates like a scrim, just gauzy enough to see the sisters arguing, it was beautifully executed with production design and directing.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 20 June 2025
Between the audience and the performers is a transparent scrim that has multiple projections aimed from multiple angles.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2025
Both of these movies glimpse the eternal through a scrim of pure artifice, where every last aspect of the frame is controlled by its author.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
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Sophie Brickman, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2025
The curtain operates like a scrim, just gauzy enough to see the sisters arguing, it was beautifully executed with production design and directing.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 20 June 2025
Between the audience and the performers is a transparent scrim that has multiple projections aimed from multiple angles.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2025
Both of these movies glimpse the eternal through a scrim of pure artifice, where every last aspect of the frame is controlled by its author.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Scrim.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrim. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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