The music in all three films is wonderful, but the second film, "Strings," contains no words, only music and house sounds. Instead, you are taken into the apartment of a woman who bathes to relax and thereby begins a stream and then a flood of water into the apartment below her. Her neighbour arrives to solve the problem, and a camaraderie begins. The short film "Tables of Content" will seem familiar to any people-watcher. An older gentlemen sits in a cafe, watching people and listening to their many conversations.

      I thoroughly enjoyed the films, but, with my having a bit of an abstract mind, that would be expected. Because it may be hard for the films to keep the attention of a typical tenth grader, I would recommend this video be shown to honours classes, perhaps in English or history. A film class would most definitely enjoy the techniques used to make the films: pencil and paint on photocopies to achieve a newsreel look in the first film; and, in the last two films, the process of painting on glass and stop-action filming.

Recommended with Reservations.