The artist team of Fischli-Weiss, who were featured in a MATRIX exhibition in 1988, create sculptural contrivances out of common objects-carrot, chair, broom, etc.-balanced so precariously as to presume an imminent fall. But since these sculptures are recorded and presented as photographs, the inevitable does not occur. In the film, The Way Things Go, however, the opposite is true; a long traveling shot in a warehouse gives new meaning to the phrase, "one thing leads to another." Here, the Fischli-Weiss setups are ingeniously animated so that the collapse of one activates the energy of the next, and so on. The film is at once comic and melancholic, a playful and dark commentary on the Swiss psyche and fate.