Robert Breer Movies

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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

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

Sparkill Ave! combines still photos of Breer's home and environs with hand-drawn images of ordinary objects and scenes.

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

"A concise, one-minute cartoon history of the black American, commissioned by the Public Broadcast Laboratory and shown on NET network." - Canyon...

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

A record, of sorts, of the birth and death of Tinguely’s famous auto-destructive sculpture. Filmed on the spot at MoMA, this film also exploits...

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a...

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

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

A short film by Robert Breer

Burford met Breer in February 1992 and filmed his actions. Breer manipulates some of his mutoscopes: he leafs through some cards of his film in the...

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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