Robert Breer Movies

A woman with an umbrella, a frog and other easily recognizable creatures and objects are moved and transformed within an intricate orchestration of...

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...

An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation...

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

An elegant home movie, its subject is Breer's apartment which faces the Tappan Zee (T.Z.) Bridge. It is permeated, as are all his films, with subtle...

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

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

A collage film in which Pope Pious XII does a juggling act.

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

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

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

An endless loop of film composed entirely of disparate images. Through repetition, certain images isolate themselves from the flow reforming the...