Repertory
Ian Breakwell,
1973,
10’
Repertory consists of one continuous tracking shot, during which the camera completely circles the outside of a locked and empty theatre, whilst a voice describes a three week programme of daily ‘imagined presentations’ inside the theatre.
EN
“The instant polarity between concrete, defined image and fictional narrative is exaggerated by the nature of the descriptions, which are wittily absurd and fantastic: the form allows Breakwell to gleefully attack theatrical representation on film not only by identifying it as fiction to be set against visual fact, but also by giving it its sole existence in the words of the narrator and the minds if the audience.”
Tony Rayns1
