It was Dennis Hopper holding the lights for Bruce Conner as he filmed Toni Basil dancing for BREAKAWAY (1966), the short film set to her song of the same name. A rare example of a Conner musical film containing all original photography, what makes the film unquestionably his is the frenetic editing and the evanescence of his subject, a sensual spirit flickering in celluloid.
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