As light as a feather, this film creates an illusion of movement using hundreds of minimally different paper pyramids. Image by image, one geometric body is replaced by the next until an impression of deformation is generated. The delicate vibration created by the exchange of the pyramids and not least the changes of position in space makes them come to life.

Even after more than a century, the poetry of this film is overwhelming. Viking Eggeling, who had already designed so-called scroll paintings with his friend Hans Richter in the 1910s – up to 15-metre-long drawings to be read from left to right showing shapes in transformation –, now takes the logical next step of changing his medium to set the delicate graphic elements in motion.