Rhythm

(3 is a good score more, see my profile)

I am very comfortable rating this higher than both Fullmetal Alchemist and Samurai Champloo.

The clue is in the name people: Rhythm. Yesterday, the 3rd of January, was my Birthday, after unfortunately getting up at 5am to go to work I decided to spend the rest of it with my family exercising my identity as an avant-weeaboo. While in a really very good Japanese restaurant I told to my Mum why I think Haiku is a symbol of the insidious influence of Western capitalist jingoism on Japanese (nationalist) culture and why I don't often care for overly literary ... films. I think I remember vaguely alluding to the first point pretty well in my recent Ponyo review so here I will vaguely allude to the second one.

"At Darmstadt I was talking about the reason back of pulverization and fragmentation: for instance, using syllables instead of words in a vocal text, letters instead of syllables. I said, “We take things apart in order that they may become the Buddha. And if that seems too Oriental an idea for you,” I said, “Remember the early Christian Gnostic statement, 'Split the stick and there is Jesus!’ ”"
- John Cage, Indeterminacy 1959

John Cage by this means that we take an art down to its syllables: sounds that have no meaning - and then from there we may choose to build them back into words, which do have meaning, or we may choose to do something quite different with them. We may indeed choose to build a kind of mechanism, something which does not mean anything but whirrs and wiggles in its way and ends up resembling nothing but what it is, which may be very beautiful. I'm not entirely sure what the syllables of a film are: it may be frames, but they are essentially just paintings or photographs. It may be Time, according to my other aesthetic hero Andrei Tarkovsky. If it is that wholly abstract thing, time, then our brains might need to get a grip on it via its handholds, the rhythm of a shot. In any moving picture there will be some degree of churning, the bits and pieces probably have some kind of direction, a cardinal direction that is. They move from some region of the screen to another, or from an imaginary point off screen to an different imaginary point off screen, and happen to pass through the part we can see.

This film consists of nothing but bits and pieces moving in a direction, and though it is only two minutes long and truth be told not exactly good enough to totally warrant this spiel I have written, I think it is a good example of "something quite different" built from the syllables of film.

Review Epilogue:

This film has a really neat soundtrack. It's an electronic offering by a man/entity known only to me as POL. If you have any information about this man/entity then please message me about them.

Rate a 2
Completely silent film with no subtitles
art piece

Story
I detest animes that are solely visual unpleasant. Aside from a missing disclosure on those who are sensitive to light the entire show was a 'revolving disaster'. The main concern i had here was the intro. Mind you i am a detail oriented individual in some manners. Why the '1934' if marked as a 1935? My theory is the creation was in 1934 but due to some oversight in production time or simple case of memory loss it was not changed. Aside from that the plot was a mess due its complete lack of plot. Sad to ... say but i think i would know more about rhythm by going to a dance party or watching my clothes run through the washer.

Art
-black and white. Not the right type of setup i would use to express the topic of rhythm. For Rhythm to me is the expression of moment and the patterns presented that are affected by gravity.
-Artistic drawing level. Not sure what precise message was being shown but i couldn't help but to notice the gradual lack of detail as the film progressed.

Enjoyment:
I believe the target audience for this piece would either be instrument players or music majors.