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...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Animated short

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

A short film by Robert Breer

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

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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