You won't find much story in these 1-minute movies. There's rarely an opening or closing to the sequence. And each little flick is as likely to star a fly or falling snow as a human. Yet, these filmlets fairly hum with the vibrancy of a city's inner life. People walk up and down stairs. Fish swarm before an audience at the aquarium. Sign painters face off against a sign. Occasionally, a moment of great drama flashes across the screen. One flick captures the pounce and swing of Rafa Nadal's shadow at the U.S. Open. Another tails the wheel of a plane's landing gear as it hangs, hangs, hangs, and then slams into a rolling finish down the runway. The filmmaker-slash-blogger behind these mesmerizing shorts describes them as "studies in motion." We call them studies in wonder.
