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“I wanted people to see this film like I saw ‘Bambi,’ as the most glorious, sophisticated tone poem of a story that packs a wallop.

This is less a traditional documentary than a collection of non-narrative tone poems, which abstract the spirit of the games rather than charting any individual story.

Written for large orchestra and inspired by Madame Helena Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society, the symphonic tone poem is a fantastical transformation of the Greek myth of Prometheus, who steals fire from the gods.

Without news from home, “Orbital” might well have been more of a tone poem than fully realized fiction.

No matter: The Swiss-born, Berlin-based artist has marshaled a lucid tone poem on energy as both fruitful power and injurious force.