Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer
Overview of films
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77
In 77 we see a number of simple mechanic objects spiral out of a spray-paint nebula then implode into pure pattern and line.
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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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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.
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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.
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Portrait of Robert Breer
An interview (with inclusion of the complete film Recreation) in the series that Chodorov made for the TV-Channel ARTE.
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Breathing
The movement of the line, and its place on the screen, and its density, the rhythms… make up the entire film.
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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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Linoleum
A filmed performance by Rauschenberg. There is no subject in a narrative sense. We see amongst the performers Breer with his Float-sculptures.
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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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Blue Monday
Robert Breer was invited to work with William Wegman, then a rising photography star, with his famous pictures of his Weimaraner, Man Ray.
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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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Sparkill Ave!
Everyday things, i.e. newspapers, have been a characteristic since some of his very early films, but here Breer for the first time shows more perso