Robert Breer Movies

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

An endless loop of film composed entirely of disparate images. Through repetition, certain images isolate themselves from the flow reforming the...

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

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

"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...

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

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

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...

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

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...