The word ‘bang’ is often used in comic books or by children pretending to use weapons. Breer’s humor is still caustic but an anxiety comes through. It is his most autobiographical film – the youngster paddling a boat is Breer as a boy and the pencil cartoon sequences were drawn by Breer when he was ten years old.
Also in this combined programme
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Fuji
The classic outline of Mount Fuji, filmed by Breer from a train at the occasion of the Expo ‘70, then rotoscoped. -
Stockhausen’s Originale: Doubletakes
An invaluable document of a particularly fertile moment in the New York avant-garde of 1964. Includes Robert Breer and his film Fist Fight. -
Time Flies
Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, all of which add to a general sense of reminiscence. -
Trial Balloons
Like Breer’s other work, it is associative and manages simultaneously to suggest spontaneity and elegance. One of his funniest. -
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
A cat-and-mouse game between lines and shapes, story and abstraction, and a diabolical moment of synthesis at the climax when the rat trap is sprung.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1986
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
