Robert Breer Movies

  • 1966
    66

    66

    66

    4.81966HD

    Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

    66
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2003
    What Goes Up....

    What Goes Up....

    What Goes Up....

    4.82003HD

    Robert Breer’s What Goes Up... continues his “kitchen sink” approach of including as many different kinds of things as possible....

    What Goes Up....
  • 1954
    Image by Images

    Image by Images

    Image by Images

    91954HD

    Image by Images
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 1980
    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    6.51980HD

    Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1957
    A Man and His Dog Out for Air

    A Man and His Dog Out for Air

    A Man and His Dog Out for Air

    5.41957HD

    While birds can be heard singing a shrill song, lines crisscross wildly as if they aimed to form shapes. Their efforts seem hopeless until the very...

    A Man and His Dog Out for Air
  • 1955
    Image by Images III

    Image by Images III

    Image by Images III

    71955HD

    Image by Images III
  • 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