Family Saturday: From Cool Structures to Rhythm & Blues

This month’s collection of films features lively rhythmic machines and things. From simple machines to geometric structures to music, your young film enthusiasts will be amazed by the plans, designs, and imaginations of Rube Goldberg, aspiring astronauts, scientists, basketball players, and musicians. A humble red machine inspires a boy to dream of space travel in Coin Operated (2017, 5 min.), percussion and water sounds move color in our eyes in Bri-ka-brok (2015, 2 min.), kids explain musical history in award-winning children’s book author Christian Robinson’s What Is Music? (2013, 3 min.), a world-famous children’s choir gets into mischief in Choir Tour (Edmunds Jansons, 2012, 5 min.), and more. (45 min. total)