Robert Breer Movies
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.82000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 1972
Gulls and Buoys
Gulls and Buoys5.91972HD
An abstract view of a seacoast landscape, created by mixing original line drawings and rotoscoped imagery traced from live-action footage, presented...
- 1969
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Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.
- 1980
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons6.31980HD
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...
- 1956
Recreation
Recreation5.11956HD
Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...
- 1959
Eyewash
Eyewash4.91959HD
A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive
- 1963
Breathing
Breathing4.91963HD
Breer’s animation explores the theme and variation of the drawn line: a line in constant movement and transformation. With a very sketchy...
- 2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film6.72011HD
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...
- 1970
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"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...
- 1953
Form Phases II
Form Phases II51953HD
Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film...
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life81986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 1974
Fuji
Fuji5.7141974HD
A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...
- 1982
Trial Balloons
Trial Balloons4.81982HD
An experiment in associative spontaneity.
- 1961
Blazes
Blazes4.71961HD
100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.
- 1957
A Man and His Dog Out for Air
A Man and His Dog Out for Air5.41957HD
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...
- 1952
Form Phases I
Form Phases I51952HD
Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film...
- 2003
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....
- 1964
Fist Fight
Fist Fight4.61964HD
Breer's extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions. Originally...
- 1966
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Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.