Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a general sense of reminiscence. Sometimes a hand appears (Breer’s own) on top of a photo, reminding us that the photo is but an object in the film, not the film itself.
Direction
Breer's hand literally intrudes — author as ghost.
Editing
24fps staccato rhythm mimics actual remembering.
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn frames warble against photographic stillness.
Director
Robert Breer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Breer was a founding figure of American avant-garde animation, influencing everything from MTV bumpers to Terence Malick's montage sequences.
The title's pun — 'Time Flies' as idiom and literal command — reveals Breer's dry humor about his own aging process.
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