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MOCAtv | BREAKAWAY

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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