Robert Breer Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 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

    7.82000HD

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

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 1972
    Gulls and Buoys

    Gulls and Buoys

    Gulls and Buoys

    5.91972HD

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

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

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  • 1980
    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    6.31980HD

    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...

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
  • 1956
    Recreation

    Recreation

    Recreation

    5.11956HD

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

    Recreation
  • 1959
    Eyewash

    Eyewash

    Eyewash

    4.91959HD

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

    Eyewash
  • 1963
    Breathing

    Breathing

    Breathing

    4.91963HD

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

    Breathing
  • 2011
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    6.72011HD

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

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  • 1970
    70

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    51970HD

    "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...

    70
  • 1953
    Form Phases II

    Form Phases II

    Form Phases II

    51953HD

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

    Form Phases II
  • 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
  • 1974
    Fuji

    Fuji

    Fuji

    5.7141974HD

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

    Fuji
  • 1982
    Trial Balloons

    Trial Balloons

    Trial Balloons

    4.81982HD

    An experiment in associative spontaneity.

    Trial Balloons
  • 1961
    Blazes

    Blazes

    Blazes

    4.71961HD

    100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

    Blazes
  • 1957
    A Man and His Dog Out for Air

    A Man and His Dog Out for Air

    A Man and His Dog Out for Air

    5.41957HD

    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...

    A Man and His Dog Out for Air
  • 1952
    Form Phases I

    Form Phases I

    Form Phases I

    51952HD

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

    Form Phases I
  • 2003
    What Goes Up....

    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....

    What Goes Up....
  • 1964
    Fist Fight

    Fist Fight

    Fist Fight

    4.61964HD

    Breer's extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions. Originally...

    Fist Fight
  • 1966
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    3.31966HD

    Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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