Robert Breer Filmes

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

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

Conceivably the best of all of Breer’s films to date – has more to do with figuration, according to Breer’s formulation regarding...

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

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

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

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

Breer was influenced by the new performance art and "happenings" making waves in the avant-garde of Europe and New York. He worked briefly with Claes...

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

An elegant home movie, its subject is Breer's apartment which faces the Tappan Zee (T.Z.) Bridge. It is permeated, as are all his films, with subtle...

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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...

A short film by Robert Breer

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

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

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

"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...