Robert Breer Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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

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

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...

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