Breer refers unhesitatingly to Richter’s demystification of screen space in his famous 1921 film Rhythmus 21. This he does graphically: ink on paper, some colour on the film surface. His first step from painting to film.
Also in this combined programme
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What Goes Up
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
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
Besides the conversation, the film contains footage from the following films: Recreation, A Man and His Dog Out for Air, 69, LMNO.
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Form Phases III
Rectangles and soft-edged forms cut out of paper are set to motion on a background.
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Form Phases II
Geometric shapes using the same ‘vocabulary’ as the painters from the Bauhaus movement.
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Form Phases IV
This refined film gives us an idea of what Breer might have done if he had continued making ‘elegant’ films, classically balanced and serene.
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Homage to Jean Tinguely’s ‘Homage to New York’
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1952
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 2"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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