[1] It is a non-verbal lecture on the subject of mathematics and one of McLaren’s longest animated works.
McLaren wanted to make a truly international film about the inadequacies of communication between peoples of different cultures and languages.
[2] Filmed without a camera or microphone and using McLaren’s scratch sound system, the film is a ‘crazy dance’ of mechanical actions and anthropomorphic gestures made by arithmetical figures and symbols; we hear rhythmic music with clicks or scratching sounds made by ink directly painted on the soundtrack.
Classified as an educational film, it is also regarded as a visual and auditory work of art.
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