Something About Everything

Robert Breer is a video collage artist. His film Recreation and A Man and his Dog Out for Air were thoroughly entertaining. Recreation incorporated so much colorful imagery presented in a fast paced manner…I found it extremely alluring and my favorite clips were the ones of a banana, and cat randomly incorporated into other preexisting shots/ If not for Robert Breer, there would not be a “Genius of Love”…so Breer is awesome…what’s with Brakhage…he just rubbed me the wrong way film after film after film. By the time we made it through Dog Star Man I felt like I was losing my mind and I just wanted to explode…I wanted to through a chair at the screen [literally] as the lightening like occurrences were featured at the end of the film…it was just so frustrating to sit there feeling like I was being manipulated visually…the only scenes I enjoyed were the ones featured in Anticipation of the Night that depicted the motions we see as we ride in cars [i.e. passing trees by]; that always fascinates me when I zone-out during road trips. Finally, An Intercourse was so confusing; were they together or not. One moment I thought they were in love, next moment I thought she hated him and he was a wuss about it, and then I got the feeling it was a one-night-stand. I don’t know what was going on other than “intercourse” and confusion. I did appreciate the moments when the two characters shared [fully clothed] sentiments in the kitchen. It seemed genuine and romantic in the superficial sense, but I still found it alluring and worth recognition. I just don’t get Brakhage..yeah yeah lots of symbolism, but seriously I wouldn’t watch his films unless I was extremely mellowed out to the point I didn’t care what I was watching….


Today 10/15/09
So I wrote this a while back and I just realized how angry I was…Brakhage isn’t that bad, but I really couldn’t stand the dizziness factor of his films…I feel like he was clever in a B.S. sorta way…but that’s life…you get lucky sometimes!