Robert Breer Movies

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

A collage film in which Pope Pious XII does a juggling act.

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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

Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon – contributors to an anti-war theme – encounter abstract shapes, line drawings,...

Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

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

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

Burford met Breer in February 1992 and filmed his actions. Breer manipulates some of his mutoscopes: he leafs through some cards of his film in the...

Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a...

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

An experimental film in which a photograph of an airplane turns into a wire diagram, then into an animated plane in flight, and then it explodes into...

Breer's extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions. Originally...

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

A short film by Robert Breer