Jamestown Baloos

1957, 16mm, col, sound, 6:00 min

realized by:

Robert Breer

keywords:

exptl. animation

notes:

AWARDS: Bergamo Award.

available copies:

Light Cone:

available for rent

Re:Voir:

VHS

available for sale

(PAL & SECAM & NTSC)

Canyon Cinema Inc.:

available for rent

synopsis: Light Cone 1996

Un film en trois parties inspiré par un triptyque vu à Lübeck, et dans lequel deux parties en noir et blanc, sonores entourent la partie centrale silencieuse en couleurs. Des papiers découpés de machines de guerres et la figure incarnée par Napoléon - participant à un thème pacifique - rencontrent des formes abstraites, des lignes, des paysages de maîtres anciens, ainsi que des flashes de paysages pris directement à la caméra.

synopsis: Canyon Cinema catalog 1992

"Mixing photographs, newspaper clippings, and quickie paintings
of an insolent taschisme, he ran them together as fast as racing
cars. The eye absorbs them imperturbably, as if they constituted
a coherent sequence. It is the 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

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