Canon

Perhaps the only film whose content is totally based on the musical form known as canon The first sequence is a simple demonstration of the canon Frere Jacques where four cubes dance and combine with one another on a checkerboard The second sequence show four little humanlike figures dancing in space The third and most elaborate sequence shows a human going through several strange gesticulations Through multiple printing we realize that the man as in the previous sequences is part of a visual canon and is making the gestures to himself As we hear variations on the canonic theme so too do we witness visual variations a woman and cat enters the canon To show the musical technique of inversion the image of the man is printed upside down