Robert Breer Movies

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

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

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...

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

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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...

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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

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

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

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

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

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

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