Robert Breer

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

10 de abr. de 1969

31 de dez. de 1961

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...

31 de dez. de 1957

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

01 de jan. de 1959

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

31 de dez. de 1974

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 in...

31 de dez. de 1986

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

01 de jan. de 1956

"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 majo...

01 de jan. de 1970

Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon – contributors to an anti-war theme – encounter abstract shapes, line drawings, old-master land...

31 de dez. de 1957

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

31 de dez. de 1953

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 an...

01 de jan. de 1980

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

01 de jan. de 1972

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

01 de jan. de 1963

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

30 de jan. de 1967

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

01 de jan. de 1966

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

01 de jan. de 2000

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

01 de jan. de 1977

01 de jan. de 1960

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

01 de jan. de 1952

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 Cla...

01 de jan. de 1962

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

01 de jan. de 1956

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

01 de jan. de 1962

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

01 de jan. de 1953

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

01 de jan. de 1989

01 de jan. de 1954

"A concise, one-minute cartoon history of the black American, commissioned by the Public Broadcast Laboratory and shown on NET network." - Canyon C...

20 de out. de 1970

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

01 de jan. de 1957