Robert Breer Movies

A short film by Robert Breer

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

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...

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

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...

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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...

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

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

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

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

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

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

A record, of sorts, of the birth and death of Tinguely’s famous auto-destructive sculpture. Filmed on the spot at MoMA, this film also exploits...

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

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

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

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