Robert Breer Movies

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"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...

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

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

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...

Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

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

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

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

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...

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

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