- This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe. Through 4 tableaux that explore her character's thoughts, filmmaker Michèle Lemieux takes a look at the profound reflections of this everyman, whose questions are part of humanity's eternal quest for meaning.—NFB
- In a case of the medium as part of the message, pin screen animation, developed by husband and wife Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker, is used in a representation the movement of atoms in space and time. At the enclosed space of a circular room, a sole figure, a male, views in succession four different tableaux, the first two in the space surrounding the outside of the room, the remaining two each occupying a different section of the room. At "the whole and its parts", the figure, requiring a flashlight to see as he stares upward into the dark, views the general movement of organic matter that surrounds us all constantly, he also part of that organic matter. At "portraits of ancestors", the connection between the "earth" as we know it per se and the beings which inhabit it is presented. At "the little here and now", the manufactured world and mankind's place within it are depicted. And at "the return of nothingness", a sense of the room itself is presented as a flying horn, acting a vacuum, not only sucks things in from within its environment, but creates air movement affecting other objects.—Huggo
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