Robert Breer Movies

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

Animated short

Documentation of an exhibition entitled Le Mouvement held in Paris in 1955, co-curated by Breer and Pontus Hulten. Features works and appearances by...

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

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...

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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

Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

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...

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...