What do you do when you have no talents, or ambitions, or any clue on how to start a life? That's the question the experimental film "Clarinet" gives to the audience, in a rather rambling nonsensical manner. I was anxiously trying to discover the message during my viewing of the film, but I just couldn't really catch on until my third viewing. The film is based around a series of images and introversions of our character thinking about his potential life goals and how though he can't get his life started, he can't see himself working. Meanwhile we're subjected to more and more brutally odd imagery that never made much sense in the end, and never amounts to an insightful bit of filmmaking. I wish I would have known what the film meant before having to watch it five times, but though director Summit seems to have a message in mind that's basically relevant, I could never understand what most of the imagery was supposed to mean, especially the extended image of water filling up a bowl of fruit loops.

Though the direction is tight from Summit, "Clarinet" doesn't make sense of its own message. Thus it comes off as lazy, and pretty damn incoherent, even after repeated viewings hoping for some sense of clarity.

• For more information on director DJ Summit's productions, check out his official website: http://www.djsummitt.com/

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