Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

Overzicht van films

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  66

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 5' | USA | None

  Colours, speed, illusion, images that remind us of the ‘cut out papers’ by Henri Matisse, or the paintings of Frank Stella.
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  69

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 5' | USA | None

  Animated geometric volumes are following the codes of perspective and thus create the illusion of screen depth.
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  70

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 5' | USA | None

  Made by Breer with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity.

• 77

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 10' | USA | None

  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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  ATOZ

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 5' | France | None

  What is the impact of an order such as the alphabet on the awakening mind of a child? A short film dedicated to Breer’s first…
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  Bang!

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 8' | USA | None

  Breer’s most autobiographical film – the youngster rowing a boat is the artist as a boy and the pencil cartoon sequences were drawn when he…
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  Blazes

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 3' | USA | None

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

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer, William Wegman | 4' | UK | None

  Robert Breer was invited to work with William Wegman, then a rising photography star, with his famous pictures of his Weimaraner, Man Ray.

• Breathing

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 6' | USA | None

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

• Colliding

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Brady Lewis | 7' | USA | None

  Colliding was made entirely from Super8 footage and it was completed as a silent film in 1977. It could be described as a ‘structural documentary’.

• David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (Fragment)

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  D.A. Pennebaker | 3' | USA | None

  Breer delivered a short animated sequence for the concert film on David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars tour.
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  Eyewash

  • Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer

  Robert Breer | 3' | USA | None

  Organised confusion of live footage and animation. Colour added to by hand on each print.