By the Numbers is a feature-length experimental animated film created in less than 24 hours. It explores cinematic structure through changing color, shape and sound - illustrating the pacing and building blocks of film from sequence to scene, from dramatic turns to individual shots. Permuting the simplest of initial assets - a single color matte and a 440 hz tone - over the course of its 90 minute runtime, it utilizes no plot or objective storytelling but nevertheless contains all the basic components required to discuss it as a minimalist narrative experience in critical vernacular. This is cinema in its most elemental form, the tools and craft of screenwriting and editing reduced to a mesmerizing abstract composition that evolves through every beat of motion picture syntax "By the Numbers."—Austin McKinley