Rhythm shows Len Lye’s remarkable sense of motion applied to the editing of live footage. The result is extraordinary - the footage becomes a kinetic composition, brilliantly synchronized to the rhythms of African drum music. The film was commissioned as a commercial for the Chrysler Corporation. Len Lye was supplied with stock footage of the assembly of a car. By using hundreds of jump cuts, he created a dramatically speeded up version of the process of car assembly. Rhythm is one of the most great displays of jump cutting. Jonas Mekas has praised it as a very pure example of film-making: “It’s filled with some kind of secret action of cinema”.