Robert Breer Movies

Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a...

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

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

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

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

Experimental film, in which against a black field, constantly changing coloured strips of paper cross the screen, meet each other and deflect at...

"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...

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

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

"A concise, one-minute cartoon history of the black American, commissioned by the Public Broadcast Laboratory and shown on NET network." - Canyon...

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

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

Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.

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

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

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