Robert Breer Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Made with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity… Places Breer for the first time among the...

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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...

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