Robert Breer Movies

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...

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...

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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...

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

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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

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

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...

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

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

Breer’s animation explores the theme and variation of the drawn line: a line in constant movement and transformation. With a very sketchy...