Although ‘Game with Stones’ is an experimental film, from the images and sounds it creates I interpreted a message and meaning from it. The film starts with seemingly random shots of concrete walls accompanied by the sound of a clock ticking (00:48). These shots are long panning shots of an environment that looks lifeless and desolate. This is shown until the sound of the ticking is revealed and a device made up of a clock, tap, pendulum and a bucket is shown (01:09). After some time the clock strikes twelve and two small stones are dropped from the tap (01:31). At the start the stones are small there are only two of them, conveying yin and yang, black and white or man and woman (01:41). These small stones multiply into patterns, moving around
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After this cycle ends and the next one starts and through the cycle we saw more human like designs with 05:36 looking like a formed face this pattern continues to 05:49 when it looks like two humans kissing. This cycle came across to me as the last the last upbeat and happy part of the film as the next cycle shows these plain looking stones breaking. They are crashing into each other and breaking in two (06:42). To me this conveyed violence and decline as the stones do not look human anymore and resemble much of shape except a standard stone. Conveying as if we have almost taken a step back from our evolution. From here the stones keep smashing, eating and breaking into each other until the bucket can’t hold the stones and it breaks from the bottom (07:16). This conveyed to me that while we started small we continued to grow and evolve until our habitat could not sustain us any longer and gave way. The tap still creates more stones but they have nothing to hold them so they die instantly, they cannot initiate the next dance/cycle (07:38). Švankmaje ends with the haunting still images with the music playing and the clock ticking conveying to me that time existed long before we existed and time will continue to long after we cease to
After this cycle ends and the next one starts and through the cycle we saw more human like designs with 05:36 looking like a formed face this pattern continues to 05:49 when it looks like two humans kissing. This cycle came across to me as the last the last upbeat and happy part of the film as the next cycle shows these plain looking stones breaking. They are crashing into each other and breaking in two (06:42). To me this conveyed violence and decline as the stones do not look human anymore and resemble much of shape except a standard stone. Conveying as if we have almost taken a step back from our evolution. From here the stones keep smashing, eating and breaking into each other until the bucket can’t hold the stones and it breaks from the bottom (07:16). This conveyed to me that while we started small we continued to grow and evolve until our habitat could not sustain us any longer and gave way. The tap still creates more stones but they have nothing to hold them so they die instantly, they cannot initiate the next dance/cycle (07:38). Švankmaje ends with the haunting still images with the music playing and the clock ticking conveying to me that time existed long before we existed and time will continue to long after we cease to