Stockhausen’s Originale: Doubletakes
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
A documentary on a staged performance by Allan Kaprow, based on a partition by Stockhausen, and including ‘action music’ by Nam June Paik, who met his muse Charlotte Moorman at the occasion. Includes Robert Breer and his film Fist Fight. An invaluable document of a particularly fertile moment in the New York avant-garde of 1964.
Also in this combined programme
-
Fuji
The classic outline of Mount Fuji, filmed by Breer from a train at the occasion of the Expo ‘70, then rotoscoped. -
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
- 1993
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 32'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm