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Oddball Films and guest curator Louis Steven present Universal Rhythms: The Pulse of Time, a cinematic exploration where mechanized time is an additive practicality but ultimately just one of the rhythms along which we experience life. Through scientific and cultural research Of Time, Work and Leisure (1962) paints an amusingly dystopian picture of the pressures and speed on modern man; meanwhile What Time is Your Body? (1973) shows a series of unsettling experiments where willing participants are isolated away from any external means of telling time while their daily cycles are continuously monitored; and through wonderful animation and soothing narration Universal Rhythms (1979) reveals the beauty in the physical rhythms surrounding us but are too small, large, or slow and fast for our perception. Local filmmaker Bauer Byron's The Icarus Wish (1972 uses multi-screen images to glance upon a child's innocent wish, fear and fantasies. Frank Mouris's Frank Film (1973) and Maya Deren's The Ritual of Transfigured Time (1946) use playful and unsettling techniques to distort the rhythm of the clock and so reveal the stable rhythm of seconds, hours, and years as illusory. In Skaterdater (1965) we find a unique and intoxicating 60s SoCal wave-after-wave rhythm where the summer seems eternally flowing with youthful joy of skating, goofing around and falling in love. Come and lose yourself in the “vibrant rhythm of all matters. Where our physical world is in constant motion and everything is energy and rhythm, everything music and dance.