Robert Breer Movies

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.

A short film by Robert Breer

"Made with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity… Places Breer for the first time among the...

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

A woman with an umbrella, a frog and other easily recognizable creatures and objects are moved and transformed within an intricate orchestration of...

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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

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

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. Alternate version.

Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.

Different stages of paintings made with ink. The ink fuses, spreads.

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...