Robert Breer Filmes

  • 2000
    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 1956
    Recreation

    Recreation

    Recreation

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    Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...

    Recreation
  • 1988
    Blue Monday

    Blue Monday

    Blue Monday

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    Animated short

    Blue Monday
  • 2011
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

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    Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1975
    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

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    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
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 1957
    The Movement

    The Movement

    The Movement

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    Documentation of an exhibition entitled Le Mouvement held in Paris in 1955, co-curated by Breer and Pontus Hulten. Features works and appearances by...

    The Movement
  • 1955
    Image by Images III

    Image by Images III

    Image by Images III

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

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

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    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
  • 1974
    Fuji

    Fuji

    Fuji

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    A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

    Fuji
  • 1993
    Sparkill Ave!

    Sparkill Ave!

    Sparkill Ave!

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

    Sparkill Ave!
  • 1969
    69

    69

    69

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

    69
  • 1954
    Image by Images

    Image by Images

    Image by Images

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    Image by Images
  • 1989
    Colliding

    Colliding

    Colliding

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

    Colliding
  • 1956
    Cats

    Cats

    Cats

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    Short hand drawn representation of a cat

    Cats
  • 1963
    Breathing

    Breathing

    Breathing

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

    Breathing
  • 1956
    Recreation II

    Recreation II

    Recreation II

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

    Recreation II
  • 1953
    Form Phases III

    Form Phases III

    Form Phases III

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    Different stages of paintings made with ink. The ink fuses, spreads.

    Form Phases III