Thursday, April 5, 1984
Daily Nebraskan
Pago 7
Avciib-garde Slmo, filmmaker
By Eric Peterson
Slieldon
Avant-arde filmmaker Robert Brccr will appeal
to viewers concerned with a playful study of form
and the way images string together in a film with the
showing of a dozen of has short films. Breer is in
Lincoln as part of a Sheldon Film Theatre FilmVi-
Film
Review
deo Showcase, a program which brings visiting
filmmakers to campus.
The short animated films are divided into two
groups. One of these will play at 1 and 7:30 p.m.
today at the Sheldon, and the second group will
show at 1 and 7:30 p.m. Friday. Breer will discuss his
films with both evening audiences. In addition, he
will show a free slide-lecture on his sculpture in the
Sheldon Film Theater at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Breer's films were mostly made on thfee-by-five
white notecards his main interest is in the move
ment of colors and forms. Real objects pocket
knives and cats are introduced, and representa
tional scenes and drawings of men and moun
tains, are occasionally seen, but are almost
immediately withdrawn. It's almost a form of teas
ing wit you want something real and solid? OK,
here it is . . . and when we grab for it, it vanishes.
My favorite of the short films, Fuji, begins with a
grainly look at a bespectacled woman on a train, in
the next seat to the camera: this ciuicklv dissolves
into red and green spots and squiggly moving figures
which pulse with the intrusive train engine sound.
There is a blending of a train interior, grainily pho
tographed, and some of the forms we have seen
and immediately we understand who the policeman
like figure is: the train conductor. The short film is a
gradually unfolding meditation or pre-occupation
of one of the train's occupants and he or she lives
in the world of abstracted forms which occasionally
link up with what is commonly known as "the real
world."
Landscapes of Mount Fuji follow, in nicely paled
out pastel green, lavender, red and blue. There is an
interplay of triangles and lines, and the landscape
as seen from the. train, from which these forms are
abstracted. Mount Fuji darkens under the black
crayon of pollution.
Recreation, a very short and charming collage
and montage of Parisian and American images,
starts tonight's program, followed by A Man and His
Dog Out for Air, which New York's Carnegie Hall
Cinema showed with Resnais' Last Year at Marien
bad for nine months, according to American Film.
69, Fuji, LMNO, and Swiss Army Knife with Eats
and Pigeons completes tonight's selection.
Blazes, Pat 's Birthday (a rather fun look at the
traditional American get together which turns weird)
70, Gulls & Buoys, Rubber Cement, T.Z. and Trial
Balloons will be shown Friday.
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Radio
Yoel Levi will conduct
this week's edition of the
Cleveland Orchestra (8
p.m., KUCV, 90.9 FM). The
show will feature violinist
Pierre Amoyal as guest
soloist. Two pieces by
Sibelius will be featured:
"Violin Concerto in D," and
"Symphony No. 1 in e."
At the Sheldon
A program featuring
seven of animator Robert
Breer's films will be
screened tonight at 1 and
7:30 p.m. in the Film Theat
re. Breer will attend the
latter screening. Admis
sion is $3. A different pro
gram will be featured Fri
day. On Stoe
Twoimpressiveproduc-
tions begin tonight Univer
sity Theatre will feature
Beyond Therapy by Chris
topher Durang. The play
is a 1980s' version of a
lover's triangle between
Bruce, a lawyer, Prudence,
a People magazine writer
and Bob, Bruce's dis
traught boyfriend. The cast
includes Assistant Profes
sor Kevin Hofeditz, and
UNL students Shelly Boeh
mer, Marcia Grund, Ken
neth Page, Mike Hofacre
and Todd Pickering. It is
directed by MFA student
Timothy Mooney. The play
will be staged at the Stu
dio Theatre of the Tem
ple Building, 12th and R
streets, 8 p.m. tonight
through Saturday and
again Monday through
April 14. Tickets are $4
for students and may be
obtained by stopping by
the theater box office or
by calling 472-2073.
The Nebraska Direc
tors' Theatre production
of Samuel Beckett's Wai
ting For Godot will begin
tonight and run through
Saturday on the NDT stage,
421 S. Ninth, Suite. 112.
Show starts at 8 p.m. A
review of the play will
appear tomorrow.
Around Town
Patoot's Saloon, 808
P St., has moved up the
starting time of tonight's
Bad Comedy Night to 9
p.m. The laughs are on
the house.
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With Toys begin a three
night stand at the Drum
stick, 547 N. 48th St. The
cover tonight is $2.
The Backbeats, the
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Mondays, will play a Thurs
day night show for a
change. They'll be at the
Zoo, 136 N. 14th St., to
night. The cover charge is
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