Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich

Hans Richter was not just a skilled artist, he was also a humorist in his own way, as this short "Everything Turns, Everything Revolves" is evidence of. Similar to "Race Symphony" of the previous year, it appears once again to be the filmmaker's take on a documentation of a fairly typical event, in this case a carnival in Berlin. Unlike that film, however, it is more cohesive in some ways, and stylistically uses Richter's frantic editing techniques to a more comedic effect that is more interesting that in previous works.

The premise of "Everything Turns, Everything Revolves" is a number of acrobats at a show in a tent, which quickly gets out of hand. There is some wonderful editing with the head of a man being displaced before rejoining his body, and an interesting juggling scene made abstract in only the way Richter can do. Not a must see but for sure one that serves as one of the better examples of the filmmaker's editing style in films.