Bang

USA 1986, 16mm, col, sound, 8:00 min

realized by:

Robert Breer

keywords:

exptl. animation
drawn animation, found-footage

available copies:

LUX:

available for rent

Light Cone:

available for rent

Re:Voir:

VHS

available for sale

(PAL & SECAM & NTSC)

Canyon Cinema Inc.:

available for rent

synopsis: Light Cone 1996

"Robert Breer est le parrain de l'animation. Avec BANG il réussit à produire 10 minutes intenses de collages chaotiques comme il ne l'avait jamais fait auparavant. Des images télévisuelles d'un garçon ramant, et d'une foule déchaînée dans un stade, des plans de fleurs roses et rouges, ainsi que d'un téléphone jouet, sont mêlés avec des dessins frénétiques de jeux de base-ball portant le coup de patte de Breer: gros coup de crayon, Breer insère une photo de lui-même barrée d'un point d'interrogation et qu'accompagne le texte: 'Don't be smart' (Fais pas le malin). Mais il n'y peut rien - il l'est." (Katherine Dieckmann, Village Voice)

synopsis: Canyon Cinema catalog 1992

BANG reveals Breer at his most accomplished and most playful. It is also his most autobiographical film -- the youngster paddling a boat is Breer as a boy and the pencil cartoon sequences were drawn by Breer when he was around ten years old.

"Robert Breer is the godfather of animation art. In BANG he sustains ten dense minutes of collagistic mayhem that's as potent as anything he's ever done. Television images of a boy paddling a boat and an arena crowd cheering, plus film shots of bright pink and red flowers and a toy phone, are intercut with frenetic drawings in Breer's trademark heavy crayon, principally of baseball games. Breer 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." (Katherine Dieckmann, Village Voice)

"Robert Breer's style is akin to musical composition. His films begin by presenting various elements -- a dog, a house, a telephone -- upon which he will later expand. The films seem to be variations on the themes of certain objects or words or gestures, variations that grow and build, becoming ever more complex." (Janet Maslin, The New York Times)

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