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Swiss Army Knife With Rats and Pigeons

USA 1980, 16mm, col, sound, 7:00 min

realized by:
Robert Breer

keywords:
exptl. animation
drawn animation

notes:
Shown: New York Film Festival, 1982; Whitney Biennial, 1983

available copies:
Re:Voir:
VHS
available for sale
(PAL & SECAM & NTSC)
LUX:
available for rent
Canyon Cinema Inc.:
available for rent
Light Cone:
available for rent

synopsis: Light Cone 1996
"Ce nouveau film entremêle des actions en prise directe avec des images animées au moyen d'associations et de transformations rapides comme l'éclair, et d'une liberté dans la juxtaposition de sons et d'images du quotidien avec ceux de l'imaginaire. Un moment de synthèse diabolique à l'apogée, quand le piège à rat se met à fonctionner." Amy Taubin.

synopsis: Canyon Cinema catalog 1992
"...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 Weekly News

"...a typically bravura and delightful display of simple objective forms flashing, rotating, and dissolving into abstraction..." --J. Hoberman, The Village Voice


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