Kevin Macdonald certainly likes to shake things up. Following hard on the heels of the unimpeachably conventional The Eagle, here is an offering that is arguably at the bleeding edge of contemporary film-making. Macdonald and his cohorts have pulled together clips from some 80,000 films, all uploaded to YouTube after a call to record footage on a seemingly random day, 24 July, 2010. A simple-but-brilliant conception, for sure, and, at its best, the amalgam of footage works like a rhythmic visual poem, with sections structured beautifully to musical accompaniment. Pehaps inevitably, with so much ground to cover, the blizzard of images occasionally becomes a bewildering blur: the best way, maybe, to experience this is to simply let it wash over you.
It's best to sit back, relax and let Kevin Macdonald's Youtube-collated clipshow wash over you, says Andrew Pulver
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