Robert Breer Movies

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

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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

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

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

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

An elegant home movie, its subject is Breer's apartment which faces the Tappan Zee (T.Z.) Bridge. It is permeated, as are all his films, with subtle...

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

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

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...

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

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

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