Made with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity. All the ‘numerical’ films are concerned with single frame alternation, working out an interweaving, three different themes, by alternating the images of them, like working on a fugue.
Also in this combined programme
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Linoleum
A filmed performance by Rauschenberg. There is no subject in a narrative sense. We see amongst the performers Breer with his Float-sculptures. -
77
In 77 we see a number of simple mechanic objects spiral out of a spray-paint nebula then implode into pure pattern and line. -
69
Animated geometric volumes are following the codes of perspective and thus create the illusion of screen depth. -
ATOZ
What is the impact of an order such as the alphabet on the awakening mind of a child? A short film dedicated to Breer’s first… -
Portrait of Robert Breer
An interview (with inclusion of the complete film Recreation) in the series that Chodorov made for the TV-Channel ARTE. -
Breathing
The movement of the line, and its place on the screen, and its density, the rhythms… make up the entire film. -
66
Colours, speed, illusion, images that remind us of the ‘cut out papers’ by Henri Matisse, or the paintings of Frank Stella.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1970
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
