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 Beauty7.8772000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life81986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 1974
Fuji
Fuji5.7141974HD
A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...
- 2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film6.72011HD
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1957
A Man and His Dog Out for Air
A Man and His Dog Out for Air5.41957HD
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...
- 1980
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons6.31980HD
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...
- 1961
Blazes
Blazes4.6671961HD
100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.
- 1956
Recreation
Recreation5.11956HD
Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...
- 1972
Gulls and Buoys
Gulls and Buoys5.8571972HD
An abstract view of a seacoast landscape, created by mixing original line drawings and rotoscoped imagery traced from live-action footage, presented...
- 1957
Jamestown Baloos
Jamestown Baloos4.6671957HD
Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon – contributors to an anti-war theme – encounter abstract shapes, line drawings,...
- 1969
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695.051969HD
Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.
- 1967
For Life, Against the War
For Life, Against the War61967HD
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
- 2003
What Goes Up....
What Goes Up....4.82003HD
Robert Breer’s What Goes Up... continues his “kitchen sink” approach of including as many different kinds of things as possible....
- 2000
Atoz
Atoz62000HD
An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.
- 1960
Inner and Outer Space
Inner and Outer Space31960HD
- 1970
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"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...
- 1956
Motion Pictures No. 1
Motion Pictures No. 151956HD
Experimental film, in which against a black field, constantly changing coloured strips of paper cross the screen, meet each other and deflect at...
- 1982
Trial Balloons
Trial Balloons4.81982HD
An experiment in associative spontaneity.
- 1976
Rubber Cement
Rubber Cement31976HD
An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation...