Robert Breer Movies

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

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 film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation...

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

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

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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

"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...

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

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

Breer's extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions. Originally...

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...