Robert Breer Movies

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

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

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

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

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

A number of simple mechanical objects spiral out of a spray-paint nebula then implode into pure pattern and line.

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...

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

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

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

Documentation of an exhibition entitled Le Mouvement held in Paris in 1955, co-curated by Breer and Pontus Hulten. Features works and appearances by...

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

An abstract view of a seacoast landscape, created by mixing original line drawings and rotoscoped imagery traced from live-action footage, presented...

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

An endless loop of film composed entirely of disparate images. Through repetition, certain images isolate themselves from the flow reforming the...

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

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...