Robert Breer Movies

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

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...

"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...

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...

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

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

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

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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

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

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

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

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...