Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

Overview of films

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  LMNO

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 10' | USA | None

  A policeman, drawn in a ‘childish’ manner, is caught in mini-dramas but also in graphic events.
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  A Man and His Dog Out for Air

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 3' | USA | None

  The first hand-drawn film by Breer that involved a continuous cartoon-like movement. One of his most accessible.
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  Un Miracle

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer, Pontus Hulten | 1' | USA | None

  Pope Pius XII juggles with balls, then his head, then goes off to Paradise. Without his arms.

• Le mouvement

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer, Pontus Hulten | 15' | USA | None

  Filmed during the exhibition with the same title, in April 1955, considered the first show exclusively devoted to kinetic art.
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  Pat’s Birthday

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 6' | USA | None

  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

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Pip Chodorov | 11' | France | None

  An interview (with inclusion of the complete film Recreation) in the series that Chodorov made for the TV-Channel ARTE.
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  Recreation

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 2' | USA | None

  Breer filmed all kinds of things and tightened the rhythm by reducing the shots to lengths of three frames, two, or even one.

• Robert Breer at Home (Chez Robert Breer)

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Jennifer L. Burford | 7' | France | None

  Breer in February 1992: he manipulates some of his mutoscopes, he leafs through some cards and a dome-shaped sculpture slowly moves across the space.
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  Robert Breer: ‘The Five & Dime’ Animator

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Keith Griffiths | 65' | United Kingdom | None

  An interview, with fragments from fifteen Breer films and furthermore Fantasmagorie (Emile Cohl) and Felix the Cat (Otto Mesmer).
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  Sparkill Ave!

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 5' | USA | None

  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 personal

• Stockhausen’s Originale: Doubletakes

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Peter Moore | 32' | USA | None

  An invaluable document of a particularly fertile moment in the New York avant-garde of 1964. Includes Robert Breer and his film Fist Fight.
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  Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 6' | USA | None

  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.