.. .these are only letters, that only happen to combine to be words...

everything is made up of something and something is made up of another, but is that to say that nothing can be original?

well not necessarily. it is true however, that most, if not every thing, concrete and abstract is born through rearrangement or reinterpretation. Paintings, illustrations, film, culture, language, poetry, and even these very words written, i have reorganized so that i may express an idea that perhaps may not be original, yet what is, is the method in which i specifically have chosen to articulate it.

Robert Breer's "Fist Fight," i feel echos my thinking. Apparently using over 13,000 photographs in this work, Breer creates a somewhat bizarre spectacle of colors, imagery and most importantly sound. I say bizarre because rarely did any of the random images seem to connect to one another and in any case "flipped" much too quickly to absorb them individually. Exactly the experience Breer, I'm sure was hoping for.

but his use of ambient sound was probably the most interestingly aspect of "Fist Fight." the real time experience of listening to the chatter of the audience layered over stage music really adds credibility to the atmosphere that is created. Chaotic until a pace is found within the music and animation, the event can be quite overwhelming.

The frame is the building block of film, just as these letters are the building blocks of sentences and experience is that of life. Constructed, arranged and molded alike, these processes will always yield a different and unconventional product. That is this film's purpose, to reveal a process, the art that is creation.

this short is raw and uncut and demands envisagement anew with every viewing.

this is one person's "way of seeing" (as John Berger might say) reiteration of "Fist Fight."
enjoy :o)
david



From evank9: This is an Animation Movie of Random drawings, influenced by animator Robert Breer; Blazes (1961). I made this video like he did, I shuffled the cards and then put them in the video in the random order that they came out in. Everything in this video I either drew or painted, I put a lot of time into this. It's too bad YouTube downgrades the video's because the colors are HD res. and they certainly don't show on this site.