Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
This film displays sinuous cutting between live action and animated images, rapid-fire association and transformation, a cat and mouse race between lines and shapes, story and abstraction, and a diabolical moment of synthesis at the climax when the rat trap is sprung.
Also in this combined programme
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Fuji
The classic outline of Mount Fuji, filmed by Breer from a train at the occasion of the Expo ‘70, then rotoscoped. -
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…
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1980
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
