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Fluxes
In a 1968 article by Lipsett’s former NFB colleague, Mark Slade, this film is aptly compared to a multi-faced, multi-sided shape, the icosahedron. Fluxes is unique to Lipsett’s collage film works because its structure and rhythm are cyclical, like a rotating shape upon which moving pictures play. After presenting the viewer with many images - war, violence, religious, and scientific in nature - a chimpanzee appears, pushing buttons on a screen. Clips of the monkey re-occur several times, indicating a link between the successions of images and the control panel. Just what is the experiment here, and who is in control?
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