Breer: Image by Images 4

In this combined programme

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  What Goes Up

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Breer’s personal take on the everyday in images that zoom past us like a flashback of a thousand perfectly lived moments, a four-minute epic.
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  Pat’s Birthday

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  A fragmentary record of a birthday party ‘happening’ in which Pop artist Claes Oldenburg assembles a collage cake for Breer’s wife Pat.
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  Frames of Mind

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Besides the conversation, the film contains footage from the following films: Recreation, A Man and His Dog Out for Air, 69, LMNO.

• Form Phases III

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Rectangles and soft-edged forms cut out of paper are set to motion on a background.

• Form Phases II

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Geometric shapes using the same ‘vocabulary’ as the painters from the Bauhaus movement.
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  Form Phases I

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Ink on paper, some colour on the film surface. His first step from painting to film.

• Form Phases IV

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  This refined film gives us an idea of what Breer might have done if he had continued making ‘elegant’ films, classically balanced and serene.

• Homage to Jean Tinguely’s ‘Homage to New York’

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  A recording of the life and death of a self-destructing sculpture by Jean Tinguely. Filmed at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York.