scott bartlett offon be nine minute of pure craziness . it be a full frontal assault of psychedelic and pulsating and epilepsy induce flash light and colour and and the first true merging of film and video in avante garde cinema . there no story to speak of and but bartlett us image of nature particularly the human face and form to provoke a sequence of emotional reaction and integrate these biological phenomenon into the highly industrial form of modern technology . in a sense and the film represent the merging of humanity into his tool and his machinery and his technology . this theme connect loosely with the subplot of hal9000 in stanley kubrick 2001 represent a space odyssey ( 1968 ) and and and indeed and bartlett open sequence of image flash colour before a close up human eye recall dave bowman journey through the stargate . the visuals be richly colour and a confront blend of sharp and vivid photography and increasingly grainy video and a though be sit too close to a television screen { a a matter of fact and the end product be record from a tv monitor } . there appear to be some confusion about the film release date . imdb list the film a a 1972 release and but both the national film registry and the national film preservation foundation give 1968 a the correct year . perhaps this disparity reflect the time between the film completion and it first public screening . either way and the visuals be distinctly ahead of their time and occasionally reminiscent of a 1980s music video and and some brisk techno music wouldn not have go amiss and either . offon capture grainy and fragmented image and present life from the warped perspective of a computer process too much information . i have a thought and please do not laugh at this free thinking interpretation that an extraterrestrial civilisation capture earth television signal might very well receive such a disjointed and alien documentation of human life and a bizarre montage of only vaguely familiar imagery that couldn not possibly make any coherent sense . perhaps this be where mankind and with all his technology and be eventually heading and towards an irreversible merging of film and video and of purity and artificiality .