Robert Breer Movies

An experimental film in which a photograph of an airplane turns into a wire diagram, then into an animated plane in flight, and then it explodes into...

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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

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

Burford met Breer in February 1992 and filmed his actions. Breer manipulates some of his mutoscopes: he leafs through some cards of his film in the...

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

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

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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 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...

Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon – contributors to an anti-war theme – encounter abstract shapes, line drawings,...

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