Recreation

Recreation
Recreation

1957, France, 16mm, colour, sound, 2 min.

A Pop art inspired film that was the breakthrough work for Breer's experiments in using collage techniques to generate a film. He glued small film fragments together to achieve jarring, jazzy effects. The film mixes drawn images with solid objects such as a jack-knife, string, and the animator's hand. The soundtrack is a Dada sound poem by Breer's friend, the legendary film theoretician Noël Burch. This film's nonsensical layers of sounds and images have invited frequent comparisons to the work of Dada collagist Kurt Schwitters.