Film 16mm > dvd / colour / sound / 10’.
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Robert Breer made abstract painting as well as kinetic sculpture and films, playing on the links between shapes and colours and variations of rhythm. In Japan, he experimented an animation technique called rotoscoping that consists in revealing the contours of a live-action film movement frame by frame. This technique had been used in Fuji: during a train journey marked by the accelerations and slowing down and by several little anecdotal events, Mount Fuji can be seen through a window. The silhouette of this mountain so often represented in Japanese prints is reduced here to its simplest expression: two lines of calligraphic quality.

Born in 1926 in Detroit, USA.
Died in 2011.
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