…At times a color pattern appears to move sideways across the screen, from band to band; at other times each band remains separate. The effect is dancelike, with an alternation between broad movements across the screen and more localized movements in the flickering of the bands.
…Trama has a sound track of traditional music from Burundi used to welcome visitors - tom-toms and voices. Lebrat chose it, he says, because it was too different from his film to “accompany” it, yet didn’t contradict it. But I found that the drumming’s multiple rhythms and mix of repetition and irregularity formed a perfect parallel to Lebrat’s moving, vibrating colors.

Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, 2001