Robert Breer Movies

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

Sparkill Ave! combines still photos of Breer's home and environs with hand-drawn images of ordinary objects and scenes.

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

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

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...

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

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

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

A short film by Robert Breer

An experimental film in which a photograph of an airplane turns into a wire diagram, then into an animated plane in flight, and then it explodes into...