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When sculptor John Greer and filmmaker Stewart Applegath began shooting, they had no destination, only a desire to journey together in a row boat with camera in hand. Over six years, they rowed a fair distance. breakSurface documents these travels, and the extent to which Greer’s world is leavened with debilitating anxiety. Greer’s powerful sculpture is visually simple, conceptually complex, but silent; he identifies with Jonathan Swift’s "man of objects" who lays out things, not words, to be understood. Applegath, however, doesn’t make this film to replace words, but by embracing them.

2001
Canada
40:50
Original language
English

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Credits

Direction
Stewart Applegath
Camera
Stewart Applegath
Editing
Stewart Applegath
Production
Stewart Applegath

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Color
Color
Sound
Stereo

Documentation

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Keywords
Sculpture, Symbolism, Creation, Anxiety, Portrait

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