Robert Breer Movies

  • 1952
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    Form Phases I

    Form Phases I

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

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  • 1953
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    Form Phases III

    Form Phases III

    2.51953HD

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

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  • 1960
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    Inner and Outer Space

    Inner and Outer Space

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  • 1961
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    Blazes

    Blazes

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    100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

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  • 2000
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    Atoz

    Atoz

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    An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

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  • 1955
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    Image by Images II

    Image by Images II

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  • 1979
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    T.Z.

    T.Z.

    3.21979HD

    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 humor, eroticism and a sense of imminent chaos and catastrophe.

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  • 1964
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    Fist Fight

    Fist Fight

    2.31964HD

    Breer's extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions. Originally presented as part of Karlheinz Sotckhausen's 1964 premiere of Originale. - Harvard Film Archive

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  • 1957
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    The Movement

    The Movement

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    Documentation of an exhibition entitled Le Mouvement held in Paris in 1955, co-curated by Breer and Pontus Hulten. Features works and appearances by Breer, Tinguely, Agam, Soto, and others. — Anthology Film Archives

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  • 1956
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    Recreation

    Recreation

    2.51956HD

    Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and intensity has been compared to contemporary Beat poetry.

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  • 1997
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    Time Flies

    Time Flies

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    Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a general sense of reminiscence. Sometimes a hand appears (Breer’s own) on top of a photo, reminding us that the photo is but an object in the film,...

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  • 1972
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    Gulls and Buoys

    Gulls and Buoys

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

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  • 1977
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    77

    77

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

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  • 1953
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    Form Phases II

    Form Phases II

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

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  • 1980
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    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

    Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

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    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 69, Breer delves into the very basis of animation to explore how a variety of easily recognisable objects can be portrayed and manipulated differently...

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  • 1955
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    Image by Images IV

    Image by Images IV

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

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  • 1989
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    A Frog on the Swing

    A Frog on the Swing

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

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  • 1956
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    Motion Pictures No. 1

    Motion Pictures No. 1

    2.51956HD

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

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  • 1956
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    Recreation II

    Recreation II

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

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  • 1958
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    Par avion

    Par avion

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    A short film by Robert Breer

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