Breer gives us his personal take on the everyday in images that zoom past us like a flashback of a thousand perfectly lived moments rolled into one four-minute epic. The final scene of a derailed train provides a metaphor for the absurdity of the notion that a big, beautiful, well-lived life simply runs out.
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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. -
Homage to Jean Tinguely’s ‘Homage to New York’
A recording of the life and death of a self-destructing sculpture by Jean Tinguely. Filmed at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York.
Film details
- Productieland
- USA
- Jaar
- 2003
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2008
- Lengte
- 5'
- Medium/Formaat
- 16mm
