Breitz's two-part video installation Mother + Father (2005), is an enthralling work. In one room, six distressed mothers were seen on plasma screens; six troubled fathers were likewise shown in an adjacent room. The twist here is that all of these parents in extremes were culled from Hollywood blockbusters. Breitz took short clips, some a few seconds long and some just a split second, from several recognizable films dealing with parental mayhem, like Kramer vs. Kramer, Mommie Dearest, and Postcards From the Edge. Because of Breitz's expert editing and the fact that everything occurs against a neutral backdrop, iconic figures from the big screen seem to have been extracted from their original movies to be placed in some frantic, herky-jerky, endlessly shifting group discussion having to do with the upheavals and anxieties of parenthood.