Robert Breer

Robert Breer at IFFR

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  69

  Animated geometric volumes are following the codes of perspective and thus create the illusion of screen depth.

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  Blazes

  A continuous explosion. Breer made a hundred images, created by gestural brushstrokes and switched their positions for four thousand frames.

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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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• 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.

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

• A Man and His Dog Out for Air

  A Man and His Dog out for Air, 1957, drawings with pen and ink on paper, 21,2 cm x 27,2 cm each, courtesy the artist and gb agency, Paris

  • Exploding Cinema: Free Radicals
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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.

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer
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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.

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer
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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.

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

• Breathing

  The movement of the line, and its place on the screen, and its density, the rhythms… make up the entire film.

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

• A Man and His Dog Out for Air

  A Man and His Dog out for Air, 1957, 16mm transfer to dvd, 3 min, b&w

  • Exploding Cinema: Free Radicals