Robert Breer Movies

  • 1962
    Pat's Birthday

    Pat's Birthday

    Pat's Birthday

    5.31962HD

    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...

    Pat's Birthday
  • 1952
    Form Phases I

    Form Phases I

    Form Phases I

    6.51952HD

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

    Form Phases I
  • 1953
    Form Phases IV

    Form Phases IV

    Form Phases IV

    6.81953HD

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

    Form Phases IV
  • 1989
    A Frog on the Swing

    A Frog on the Swing

    A Frog on the Swing

    5.51989HD

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

    A Frog on the Swing
  • 1966
    66

    66

    66

    4.81966HD

    Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

    66
  • 1969
    69

    69

    69

    5.21969HD

    Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.

    69
  • 1977
    77

    77

    77

    71977HD

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

    77
  • 1956
    Motion Pictures No. 1

    Motion Pictures No. 1

    Motion Pictures No. 1

    7.51956HD

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

    Motion Pictures No. 1
  • 1975
    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    01975HD

    Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

    Solstice and Solyanka
  • 1953
    Form Phases II

    Form Phases II

    Form Phases II

    61953HD

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

    Form Phases II
  • 1959
    Eyewash (Alternate Version)

    Eyewash (Alternate Version)

    Eyewash (Alternate Version)

    01959HD

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

    Eyewash (Alternate Version)
  • 1955
    Image by Images III

    Image by Images III

    Image by Images III

    71955HD

    Image by Images III
  • 1972
    Gulls and Buoys

    Gulls and Buoys

    Gulls and Buoys

    6.11972HD

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

    Gulls and Buoys
  • 1955
    Image by Images II

    Image by Images II

    Image by Images II

    91955HD

    Image by Images II
  • 1953
    Form Phases III

    Form Phases III

    Form Phases III

    71953HD

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

    Form Phases III