Brute Charm Emily Breer, 1989

BRUTE CHARM consists primarily of images of animals I shot in Africa, combined with animation on an optical printer. A steady stream of conscious and unconscious visual choices loosely constructs a journey through the animal kingdom and my thoughts which developed around it. BRUTE CHARM is an exploration into our unsocialized selves. Lion Sex Flamingo Death and a yellow rubber glove in the Kenyan wild. There s mud in your Ear easier than an Elephant thru the eye of the beholder. BRUTE CHARM, New Yorker Emily Breer s twentyfive minute African film. .. left me muttering, she s a genius. .. she s a genius and I am still at a loss of words to describe the inventive complexity of her work, overwhelmed as I am in recognition of a clear new genuineness of creativity engaging Stan Brakhage