Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer
Overzicht van films
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LMNO
Robert Breer | 10' | USA | None
A policeman, drawn in a ‘childish’ manner, is caught in mini-dramas but also in graphic events. -
A Man and His Dog Out for Air
Robert Breer | 3' | USA | None
The first hand-drawn film by Breer that involved a continuous cartoon-like movement. One of his most accessible. -
Un Miracle
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
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. -
Pat’s Birthday
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. -
Portrait of 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. -
Recreation
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)
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. -
Robert Breer: ‘The Five & Dime’ Animator
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). -
Sparkill Ave!
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
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. -
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
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.