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Miracle, A
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Found Footage
A collage film in which Pope Pious XII does a juggling act.
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Recreation
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists
A frame by frame collision of totally disparate images. "I haven't felt as good in a long time as when I stood in the Bonino Gallery looking at Breer's constructions and movies. The amazing thing is that all this goodness and happiness is caught so simply and so effortlessly. It's done through abstract lines, through the play of plastic elements, through movements and rhythms. The happiness has its own rhythm, and Breer seems to have caught and recreated it in his work. We look at Breer's work and we begin to smile - lightly, inside, a happy sort of smile, a happy feeling like when you see anything beautiful and perfect. It's through an amazing control and economy of his materials that he achieves this; through the elimination of all the usual emotional, personal, biographical material; not by giving into temptations." - Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice
Rental: $20.00
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Jamestown Baloos
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Psychology & Mental Health
Bergamo Award Mixing photographs, newspaper clippings, and quickies paintings of an insolent taschime, he ran them together as fast as racing cars. The eye absorbs them imperturbably, as if they constituted a coherent sequence. It is a succession of different images itself which comes to constitute an illusory form, comparable to that of solids in movement, and which reduces every attempt at analysis to a simple impression. -- Benayoun, Positif
Rental: $20.00
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Man and His Dog Out for Air, A
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Dance
... a brilliant and astonishing ballet with unprecedented virtuosity! -- Burch, Film Quarterly
Rental: $20.00
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One Man Show
Genre: Animation
Contains the following seven films: JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957); BLAZES (1961); HORSE OVER TEA KETTLE (1962); PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962); BREATHING (1963); FIST FIGHT (1964); and 66 (1966). See descriptions for individual titles.
Rental: $60.00
16mm Rental: $60.00
Eyewash
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists, Found Footage, Hand-processed
Organized confusion of live footage and animation. Color of original added to by hand on each print.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Homage To Jean Tinguely's Homage To New York
Genre: Animation, Documentary
Keywords: Art & Artists
A record, of sorts, of the birth and death of Tinguely's famous auto-destructive sculpture. Filmed on the spot at the NY Modern Art Museum, this film also exploits a wide range of camera and editing techniques to give it a life of its own, independent of and parallel to the subject.
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Inner And Outer Space
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists
'Exploration of kinestetic space using animated lines.'
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Blazes
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists, Structural
100 basic images switching positions for 4 thousand frames. A continuous explosion.
Rental: $20.00
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Horse Over Tea Kettle
Genre: Animation
Keywords: Art & Artists
... an atom bomb movie, one of his small wonders. The simplicity of his means, the effectiveness of his imagery, his humor (Breer is the James Thurber of the screen) is that of a great artist. -- Jonas Mekas, Village Voice
Rental: $20.00
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Pat's Birthday
Genre: Animation, Documentary
Keywords: Art & Artists, Biography & Autobiography
A day in the country with Claes Oldenburg and the Ray Gunn Theatre Players... includes such classic items as the haunted house, a gas station, ice cream stand, miniature golf, airplane noises, balloons. Things happen after each other in this film only because there isn't room for everything at once. After all, time is not supposed to move in one direction any more than it does in another.
Rental: $50.00
16mm Rental: $50.00
Breathing
Genre: Animation
Breer's unpredictable lkines flow forth naturally with an assurance and a serenity which are the signs of an astonishing felicity of expression. -- A. Labarthe, Cahiers du Cinema
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Fist Fight
Genre: Animation
Keywords: Art & Artists
Frame by frame collage of everything imaginable. First shown in New York production of Kh Stockhausen's Originals. Track from these performances.
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66
Genre: Animation
Keywords: Art & Artists
Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Pbl No. 2
Genre: Animation
Keywords: Ethnic / Multicultural, History
A concise one minute cartoon history of the black American commissioned by Public Broadcast Laboratory and shown in NET network.
Rental: $20.00
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69
Genre: Animation
Keywords: Art & Artists
It's so absolutely beautiful, so perfect, so like nothing else. Forms, geometry, lines, movements, light very basic, very pure, very surprising, very subtle. -- Jonas Mekas, Village Voice
Rental: $30.00
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70
Genre: Animation
Keywords: Art & Artists, Hand-processed
Made with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity. ... places Breer for the first time among the major color its of the avant-garde. -- P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film
Rental: $20.00
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Gulls and Buoys
Genre: Animation
The film might appear to be an unpresuming, whimsical exercise in animation, to the more serious-minded, it could be viewed as a high point in formal graphic film tradition stretching back to the work of Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter. It could be viewed either way in fact, it is both ... a magical feat that merits him consideration as one of our most important film artists. -Scott Hammen, Afterimage.
Rental: $20.00
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Fuji
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists
A poetic, lyrical, rhythmic, riveting achievement ( in rotoscope and abstract animation) in which fragments of landscapes, passengers, and train interiors blend into a magical color dream of a voyage. One of the most important works by a master who -- like Conner, Brakhage, and Broughton -- spans several avant-garde in his ever more perfect explorations. -- Amos Vogel, Film Comment
Rental: $25.00
16mm Rental: $25.00
Rubber Cement
Genre: Animation
... a remarkable film, one of Breer's very best. -- Fred Camper, SoHo News. ... his color technique results from some new experimentation with the Xerox process. The space created is extremely complex... Breer's artistic roots are not in avant-garde animation, the film contains an affectionate homage to the figure of Felix the Cat. -- Lucy Fischer, Museum of Modern Art Catalogue
Rental: $20.00
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77
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists
Breer is a consummate master of cinematic space. Like Hans Richter, he constantly provokes a sense of depth through changing the scale of his shapes. We see space as constantly shrinking and expanding... the metamorphosis of things and space is located in the spectator who actively participates in creating the meaning of the image. Breer celebrates the freedom endemic in animation by giving the spectator a creative role in the process of metamorphosis. Noel Carroll, SoHo News. .... a film notable for its sparely effective use of color and sound. -- J. Hoberman Village Voice. Shown at the Whitney Biennial, 1979
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Lmno
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists, Environment & Nature
... a French gendarme weaves a hapless path through the films strobe-attacks, disparate drawing styles, and variable scale... Framed by underwater and travel imagery, the central section's faucets and aerosols, collapsing tents and outsized croquet games, breakfast foods and sexual violence, all suggest domestic frustration. -- J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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T. Z.
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists, Personal / Diary / Journal
"Breerworld is homey but tumultuous, filled with sudden shifts in scale or color, flash frame jolts, and a steady back beat of good-natured apocalypse. ... [H]e towers over a field where gimmicks are common currency and cuteness is as virulent as malaria in the tropics .... T. Z. offers a typically witty barrage of domestic imagery and eclectic technique." -- J. Hoberman, American Film "Within the film's brief length, numerous dramas take place, puzzling and enthralling us with their restless, enigmatic denouements." -- B. Ruby Rich, Chicago Reader "An elegant home movie, its subject is Breer's new apartment which faces the Tappan Zee (T. Z.) bridge. It is permeated, as are all his films, with subtle humor, eroticism and a sense of imminent chaos and catastrophe." -- Amy Taubin,
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Swiss Army Knife With Rats And Pigeons
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Displays sinuous cutting between live action and animated images, rapid-fire associations and transformations, freedom in collaging the everyday with the imaginary in sound and image, and a diabolical moment of synthesis at the climax when the rat trap is sprung... Breer is easily the greatest animator currently practicing. -- Amy Taubin, SoHo News ... a typically bravura and delightful display of simple objective forms flashing, rotating, and dissolving into abstraction. -- J. Hoberman, Village Voice.
Rental: $20.00
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Trial Balloons
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists
A mix of rephotographed live action and animation using hand-cut traveling mattes. "The strongest film by Robert Breer in several seasons." -- J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
Rental: $20.00
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Bang!
Genre: Animation
Robert Breer, the godfather of animation art whose geometric mural graces Film Forum's exterior, shows a new piece here as well as older favorites RUBBER CEMENT (1975), T. Z. (1978), and TRIAL BALLONS (1982). In BANG! (1986) Breer sustains 10 dense minutes of collagistic mayhem that's as potent as anything he's ever done. Television images of a boy paddling a boat an a arena crowd cheering, plus filmed shots of bright pink flowers and a toy phone with the receiver off the hook, are intercut with frenetic drawings in Breer's trademark heavy crayon, principally of baseball games. Then there are kitschy pencil cartoons (heads, pictures of planes) doodled on ruled paper. Breer, ever prone to autobiographical flourishes, inserts a photo of himself with a question mark scrawled over his head, accompanied by the words Don't be smart. But he can't help it -- he is. When he words Whazzat? Fade out? signal a possible end to BANG!, a barrage of violently colored drawings fly up as if to say aha, foiled you. -- Katherine Dieckmann, Village Voice
Rental: $30.00
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ATOZ
Genre: Animation
Keywords: Children & Youth, Comedy, Psychology & Mental Health
A short film dedicated to his little daughter that demonstrates all the characteristic traits of Breer's animation, his humour, his favourite motifs (the hammer, a frog, graphic shapes, aeroplanes). What is the impact of an order such as the alphabet on the awakening mind of a child?
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What Goes Up
Genre: Animation
Keywords: Spiritual / Mystical
"His most recent film, What Goes Up, cycles through several intervals framed by the drawn animations of an ascending plane and a variety of images that offer a succinct summary of the joys of being alive—photographs of the artist's family, home and studio, food, drink, the changing leaves, and a drawing of a voluptuous woman. Breer gives us his personal take on the everyday in images that zoom past us like a flashback of a thousand perfectly lived moments rolled into one four-minute epic. The final scene of a derailed train provides a metaphor for the absurdity of the notion that a big, beautiful, well-lived life simply runs out."-Carnegie International
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