Robert Breer Movies

  • 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

    7.92000HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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

    81986HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    70

    70

    70

    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
  • 1961
    Blazes

    Blazes

    Blazes

    4.6671961HD

    100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

    Blazes
  • 1969
    69

    69

    69

    5.051969HD

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

    69
  • 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
  • 1989
    Colliding

    Colliding

    Colliding

    01989HD

    Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.

    Colliding
  • 1959
    Eyewash

    Eyewash

    Eyewash

    4.9321959HD

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

    Eyewash
  • 1957
    Jamestown Baloos

    Jamestown Baloos

    Jamestown Baloos

    4.6671957HD

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

    Jamestown Baloos
  • 1966
    66

    66

    66

    3.31966HD

    Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

    66
  • 1963
    Breathing

    Breathing

    Breathing

    4.8571963HD

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

    Breathing
  • 1986
    Bang!

    Bang!

    Bang!

    5.71986HD

    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 into...

    Bang!
  • 1953
    Form Phases IV

    Form Phases IV

    Form Phases IV

    6.51953HD

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

    Form Phases IV
  • 1964
    Fist Fight

    Fist Fight

    Fist Fight

    4.6251964HD

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

    Fist Fight
  • 1978
    Lmno

    Lmno

    Lmno

    5.71978HD

    Conceivably the best of all of Breer’s films to date – has more to do with figuration, according to Breer’s formulation regarding...

    Lmno