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At first I was unimpressed but it has a hypnotic quality with the music that draws you in in an unsettling way! A fun little watch

What I really like about Peter Kubelka's obscure avant garde filmography is that his films don't feel as if they're pretending to be something they aren't; instead, they are presented in a way that is very concise and to the point, often being just short enough to avoid pretension or tediousness. His films also offer a fascinating study of cinema and its relations to light and sound, especially in this film in which all that occurs is a series of white, dancing figures behind a bizarre, but somewhat catchy instrumental soundtrack. It has a surrealist vibe going on throughout; the constant moving, the enigma of it all, every frame being relentless in its contrast between darkness and lightness. It's a playful short that is likely to attract enthusiastic fans of experimental film.

Perhaps these movie producers should do their experimenting away from the public eye. This is another one of those little experiments. Here we have some nondescript dancers dancing? Sometimes they are in photographic negative; sometimes black on white. What it is are two tiresome minutes.