Robert Breer Movies

Robert Breer’s What Goes Up... continues his “kitchen sink” approach of including as many different kinds of things as possible....

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

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

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...