It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory.
The Institute has done their best to understand Luper's project and reconstruct his work according to his specifications.
Some doubt whether Luper exists or if he was invented by the Institute to embark on an experimental film project.
The academics assert that if Luper was building to anything, it would be at the middle of the square described before VFR1, rather than the final shot of VFR.
Shots change in a call-and-response pattern to a basic piano score.
The shots move more rhythmically alongside a livelier piano score.