I saw this film along with Gallagher's longer work "Undivided Attention" at a university where the filmmaker also taught. They are not the type of things you would seek out unless the person who made them forced you to watch them! They are part of what is called "Deconstruction" cinema, an experimental style that basically attempts to shake up the audience--disorient, bore, etc. In "Atmosphere" Gallagher uses camera rigs to make the camera rotate 360 degrees--or locks it down and focuses on a particular image-ranging from wall where plates are thrown at it for 20 minutes straight, to a close up of a shovel blade which has a camera mounted to it---so we can get a good view as it scoops up maure(I am not kidding). Gallagher displays great disdain for traditional narrative film...in one scene he shows a couple sitting ina living room watching a scene from King Kong(1933) while making derisive comments of a sexual nature regarding Ann Darrow's screaming. The camera is let to spin vertically at 360 degrees--for at least 15 minutes straight! He also includes a scene where the audio track from Bambi is used(the scene where the forest animals gather to see the newborn faun)--with the visual images accompaning it being a taxidermist's recreation of the film moment. Knowing Disney's strict attitude about copyright--its unlikely they endorsed this film-but then again--I bet fewer people have seen this than the image of Goofy painted on the washroom wall of that restaurant in Australia--which is probably alot more entertaining and profound.