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breakSurface (2001)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 41M

Director : Stewart Applegath

Synopsis

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.

Actors

John Greer
John Greer
Self
Stewart Applegath
Stewart Applegath
Self

Crews

Stewart Applegath
Stewart Applegath
Director
Stewart Applegath
Stewart Applegath
Director of Photography
Stewart Applegath
Stewart Applegath
Editor
Stewart Applegath
Stewart Applegath
Producer

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