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Robert Breer, who created this, said "In all my work I tried to amaze myself with something, and the only way you can amaze yourself is to create a situation in which an accident can happen." His father, Carl, was an automotive engineer who designed the Chrysler Airflow and also created a 3-D camera that he used to take photos on vacations. Breer went to Stanford, hoping to follow his father as an engineer, when he discovered Mondrian and became an artist. Moving to Paris in 1949 and staying for a decade, he returned to America to work within pop art and teach film at Cooper Union.

Eyewash is a combination of geometric shapes and photography, all hand colored by the artist. It moves way faster than you can imagine, seeing as this came sixy years ago, and is over before you know it. It's a study in movement and color that you may want to watch more than once. I know that I did.

Director Robert Breer was interested in the use of color and designed his frames so that it looked like the colors themselves were moving in this very short, three minute presentation. It's an odd study in fluid color movement, and quite honestly, doesn't look like much more than a budding high school art student might have come up with. Right in the middle of this offbeat presentation, one will catch a baby at rest, a red gloved hand moving about and what looks like scraps of material wandering around quite aimlessly. As one of the offerings on a boxed set of 'American Film Treasures', this Avant Garde film did nothing for me except upset my equilibrium. There's also a second, shorter version that includes some of the same images in a different sequence that I didn't bother with, because three minutes of this was just about enough for me.