Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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

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...

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

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...

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