Homage to Jean Tinguely’s ‘Homage to New York’
Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
A recording of the life and death of a selfdestructing sculpture by Jean Tinguely. Filmed at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York, this film also deploys numerous camera techniques, which gives the film its own life, independent of but parallel to its subject.
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. -
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. -
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. -
Form Phases III
Rectangles and soft-edged forms cut out of paper are set to motion on a background. -
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1960
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm