Robert Breer Movies

Experimental film, in which against a black field, constantly changing coloured strips of paper cross the screen, meet each other and deflect at...

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

"A concise, one-minute cartoon history of the black American, commissioned by the Public Broadcast Laboratory and shown on NET network." - Canyon...

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll

Breer was influenced by the new performance art and "happenings" making waves in the avant-garde of Europe and New York. He worked briefly with Claes...

Sparkill Ave! combines still photos of Breer's home and environs with hand-drawn images of ordinary objects and scenes.

An animated fable centered around a backyard pond shown intermittently in live-action scenes.

While birds can be heard singing a shrill song, lines crisscross wildly as if they aimed to form shapes. Their efforts seem hopeless until the very...

Conceivably the best of all of Breer’s films to date – has more to do with figuration, according to Breer’s formulation regarding...

An elegant home movie, its subject is Breer's apartment which faces the Tappan Zee (T.Z.) Bridge. It is permeated, as are all his films, with subtle...

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

Robert Breer’s What Goes Up... continues his “kitchen sink” approach of including as many different kinds of things as possible....

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation...

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

Breer’s animation explores the theme and variation of the drawn line: a line in constant movement and transformation. With a very sketchy...

Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film...