Since the eighties, Breer has increasingly been working with live action film and sometimes uses writing. Everyday things, i.e. newspapers, have been characteristic since some of his very early films, but in Sparkill Ave! Breer for the first time shows more personal elements, like scenes from the street he lives in.
Also in this combined programme
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A Man and His Dog Out for Air
The first hand-drawn film by Breer that involved a continuous cartoon-like movement. One of his most accessible.
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Jamestown Baloos
Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon encounter abstract shapes, line drawings, old-master landscapes and short bursts of ‘real
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Le mouvement
Filmed during the exhibition with the same title, in April 1955, considered the first show exclusively devoted to kinetic art.
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Un Miracle
Pope Pius XII juggles with balls, then his head, then goes off to Paradise. Without his arms.
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Eyewash
Organised confusion of live footage and animation. Colour added to by hand on each print.
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Blazes
A continuous explosion. Breer made a hundred images, created by gestural brushstrokes and switched their positions for four thousand frames.
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Colliding
Colliding was made entirely from Super8 footage and it was completed as a silent film in 1977. It could be described as a ‘structural documen
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LMNO
A policeman, drawn in a ‘childish’ manner, is caught in mini-dramas but also in graphic events.
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Recreation
Breer filmed all kinds of things and tightened the rhythm by reducing the shots to lengths of three frames, two, or even one.
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Robert Breer at Home (Chez Robert Breer)
Breer in February 1992: he manipulates some of his mutoscopes, he leafs through some cards and a dome-shaped sculpture slowly moves across the spac
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1993
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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