Robert Breer Movies

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

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...

Breer's extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions. Originally...

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...

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

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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 animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

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

An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation...

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

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

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

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

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

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

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

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