Robert Breer Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

A short film by Robert Breer

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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

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

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

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