The classic outline of Mount Fuji, filmed by Breer from a train at the occasion of the Expo 1970, then rotoscoped, becomes involved in an extended speculation on the boundaries between representation and abstraction. Is it a mountain, or just another of Breer’s geometric obsessions?
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
Bang!
Breer’s most autobiographical film – the youngster rowing a boat is the artist as a boy and the pencil cartoon sequences were drawn when he… -
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
- 1974
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
