Tim Jenison s'intéresse à l'univers du peintre Johanes Vermeer et plus particulièrement aux méthodes de l'artiste néerlandais du XVIIème siècle.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, dans une fabrique d'instruments d'optique, de jeunes ouvrières travaillent sur les viseurs d'artilleurs. Une ouvrière tombe malade, abandonne son travail, puis le reprend. Une autre se blesse, mais n'abandonne pas l'usine. Un film de propagande pour l'effort de guerre japonais.

This is one of those abstract animated films in which colored, richly textured light moves in a black, three-dimensional space. The pictures and the electronic score are unified in a strict structure made of three main sections which progressively develop three subsections. This film may look like it was made using computers or video to the uninitiated, but only animation and much optical printing are to be seen herein. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Early experimental film from Zbigniew Rybczynski that broke new ground in the use of pixelation, optical printing, animation and other compositional film devices. Beautiful jazz score and color usage.

When she realizes that her grandmother, the woman who raised her, is losing her sight, the director decides to explore the bond that unites them through the episodes of non-vision that these three generations share, the memories of the past, the misunderstandings and the new memories they seek to have in common.