'High Kukus' from James Broughton is one of the most honest experimental movies I have yet seen. it tells us a lot about nature itself, and the meaning of life. still, someone can ask what Broughton was trying to say with this short movie. perhaps the most obvious answer is that James just wants us to accept the circle of life: a nut, a tree, the rain, the nut again, the forest, the animals, life itself. is life repetition of the same thing? that's the real issue I believe Broughton wants us to think about. we're all the same, and still, we're all different. it's contradictory, but it's possible, and maybe be asking so many questions with the same images over and over again, the director succeeds in his goal: he makes us all philosophical, even if we refuse being so.