Robert Breer Movies
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.82000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life8.21986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film6.72011HD
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...
- 1980
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons6.31980HD
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...
- 1974
Fuji
Fuji5.7141974HD
A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...
- 1969
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Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.
- 1970
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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...
- 1960
Inner and Outer Space
Inner and Outer Space31960HD
- 1972
Gulls and Buoys
Gulls and Buoys5.91972HD
An abstract view of a seacoast landscape, created by mixing original line drawings and rotoscoped imagery traced from live-action footage, presented...
- 1952
Form Phases I
Form Phases I51952HD
Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film...
- 1967
For Life, Against the War
For Life, Against the War61967HD
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
- 1956
Recreation
Recreation5.11956HD
Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...
- 1962
Pat's Birthday
Pat's Birthday51962HD
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...
- 2000
Atoz
Atoz62000HD
An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.
- 1954
A Miracle
A Miracle31954HD
A collage film in which Pope Pious XII does a juggling act.
- 1953
Form Phases IV
Form Phases IV6.51953HD
Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film...
- 1975
Solstice and Solyanka
Solstice and Solyanka01975HD
Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...
- 1989
Colliding
Colliding01989HD
Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.
- 1963
Breathing
Breathing4.91963HD
Breer’s animation explores the theme and variation of the drawn line: a line in constant movement and transformation. With a very sketchy...