Screening Room with Robert Breer - PREVIEW

Available at http://www.der.org/films/screening-ro... From the Screening Room series by Robert Gardner color, 75 min, 1976/2005 Since the 1950s, American animator Robert Breer has been well-known for his films exploring shape, color, perspective and motion. His work exhibits innovative graphic and dramatic interpretation as well as great wit and humor, and has inspired generations of other filmmakers. Robert Breer's prolific career as painter, sculptor, animator, and filmmaker began in Paris in 1950. After studying engineering at Stanford University, his interests shifted to the mechanics of film and motion. He experimented with flipbooks and was influenced by European avant-garde movements, especially Dada and Cubism. He is well-known for drawing by hand on 4x6 index cards and animating those drawings in the camera. His film captures some aspects of beat poetry and music in its fragmented, collage aesthetic. He incorporates scenes and objects from everyday life with repetition, rhythm, and motion. His cartoons are playful and humorous and explore simple delights of life. Later in his career, he experiemented with commercial animation. Today Breer continues to explore filmmaking and sculpture in his home in Tappan, New York. He was recently featured in the 2004-5 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, PA. About the Screening Room Series: Screening Room, a television program developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner ("Dead Birds" and "Forest of Bliss"), aired from 1973 to 1980 on ABC's Channel 5 in Boston. The show gave important animators and experimental and documentary filmmakers an opportunity to discuss their work and show it to a large urban audience. Drawn from nearly 100 programs, this series presents the work and thoughts of such figures as Standish Lawder, Jearn Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Ricky Leacock, Caroline Leaf, Hilary Harris, John and Faith Hubley, Yvonne Rainer, Jan Lenica and many others.