Robert Breer Movies

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

A short film by Robert Breer

A short film by Robert Breer

Robert Breer’s What Goes Up... continues his “kitchen sink” approach of including as many different kinds of things as possible....

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

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

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

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

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

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...

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

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

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...

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

An experiment in associative spontaneity.