Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 6 min
Average vote: 7
Release date: 1978-12-31
Director: Jean Painlevé
Title cards introduce images we watch without narration; they are displays of shape and color. François de Roubaix's electronic music accompanies these images, photographed under a polarizing microscope. The crystals appear to move like tiny organisms: small four-part fans share the frame with flowing lines of pink. Multiple patterns appear side by side.