Recreation

France 1956, 16mm, col, sound, 2:00 min

realized by:

Robert Breer

keywords:

exptl. animation
voice-over, frame by frame
based on literature

notes:

Awards: Creative Film Foundation.

cast&crew:

writer:

Noel Burch

voice:

Noel Burch

available copies:

LUX:

available for rent

Canyon Cinema Inc.:

available for rent

Re:Voir:

VHS

available for sale

(PAL & SECAM & NTSC)

Light Cone:

available for rent

synopsis: Light Cone 1996

Texte écrit et lu par Noël Burch.

Les images de RECREATION ont été choisies et photographiées dans le but de créer le maximum d'hétérogénéité d'une image à l'autre. Les choix ont été faits autant sur le plan du contenu que sur celui de la forme - toujours dans la perspective du choc et du contraste.

synopsis: Canyon Cinema catalog 1992

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 in to temptations." --Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice

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