Country:Germany

Director:Hans Richter

Program:Parralel Pathways

Summary:

With this film Richter combined his interest in anarchic dadaist actions with highly syncopated and rythmic film style, without relying on music. In his previous film Rythmus 21 it is apparent that the imposition of Rythym was paramount for Richter. Clocks, legs, ladders and people undergo irrational permutations in odd settings. Beards appear and disappear on faces, a man's head comes off and floats in the air, tea cups fill up by themselves, objects and characters move in reverse... . All brought together by a distinctly associative logic while a posse of flying hats create continuity by reappearing throughout to tie the film together as a whole as if in search of heads to confound