Robert Breer Trailers
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Born in 1926 in Detroit, Robert Breer has spent fifty years building up a totally atypical body of work which plays with different genres and abolishes the notions of space and time.
Starting off as a painter, he then deconstructed his neoplastic works and ended up with kinetic objects. He dealt next with the thresholds of awareness and perception, both as a sculptor and a film-maker. His films are composed of a jumble images that pass at great speed, while his Floats move almost imperceptibly, in accordance with an unpredictable logic.
Robert Breer developed his light yet rigorous style while associating with the New York underground in the Pop years. Continuing his subtle exploration movement, he still today causes the space of reality-irrevocably unstable-to waver.
Most Popular Robert Breer Trailers
Total trailers found: 54
22 February 1986
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
01 January 1956
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.
10 April 1969
Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.
31 December 1961
100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.
24 July 2011
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.
01 January 1978
Conceivably the best of all of Breer’s films to date – has more to do with figuration, according to Breer’s formulation regarding titles with letters or numbers.
01 January 1970
"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 major colorists of the avant-garde.
05 November 2000
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
31 December 1960
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 a wide range of camera and editing techniques to give it a life of its own, independent of and parallel to the subject.
31 December 1957
Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon – contributors to an anti-war theme – encounter abstract shapes, line drawings, old-master landscapes, short bursts of ‘real-time’ landscapes and shakily photographed gestural watercolors.
31 December 1986
An experimental film in which a photograph of an airplane turns into a wire diagram, then into an animated plane in flight, and then it explodes into words.
01 January 1963
Breer’s animation explores the theme and variation of the drawn line: a line in constant movement and transformation.
01 January 2000
An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.
01 January 1977
A number of simple mechanical objects spiral out of a spray-paint nebula then implode into pure pattern and line.
01 January 1962
Breer was influenced by the new performance art and "happenings" making waves in the avant-garde of Europe and New York.
01 January 1992
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 making, Sparkill Ave! A dome-shaped sculpture slowly moves across the space.
01 January 1972
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.
01 January 1989
An animated fable centered around a backyard pond shown intermittently in live-action scenes.
01 January 1980
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 using pixillation and classically drawn animation.
01 January 1989
Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.
01 January 1955
An endless loop of film composed entirely of disparate images. Through repetition, certain images isolate themselves from the flow reforming the original pattern.
17 October 2003
Robert Breer’s What Goes Up... continues his “kitchen sink” approach of including as many different kinds of things as possible.
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
01 January 1956
Short hand drawn representation of a cat
10 May 1988
Animated short
01 January 1957
Documentation of an exhibition entitled Le Mouvement held in Paris in 1955, co-curated by Breer and Pontus Hulten.
01 January 1959
A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. Alternate version.
01 January 1982
An experiment in associative spontaneity.
01 January 1958
A short film by Robert Breer
30 January 1967
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War.
31 December 1974
A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-esque Japanese landscape of electrical power lines, passing trains, railroad tracks, and the gentle slope of obliquely peaked, uniform rooflines as Breer distills the essential geometry of Mount Fuji into a collage of acute angles and converging (and bifurcating) lines .
31 December 1957
While birds can be heard singing a shrill song, lines crisscross wildly as if they aimed to form shapes.
01 January 1976
An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation bursting with color and movement.
01 January 1966
Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.
04 January 1975
Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of appearance, are Robert Breer, John Terry, Steve Ascher, Richard Leacock, Jon Rubin, Frank Daniel, Ed Emshwiller, Ann McIntosh, Terry Lockhart, Standish Lawder, Jerome Liebling.
01 January 1997
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.
01 January 1979
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.
01 January 1993
Sparkill Ave! combines still photos of Breer's home and environs with hand-drawn images of ordinary objects and scenes.
01 January 1954
A collage film in which Pope Pious XII does a juggling act.
01 January 1959
A short film by Robert Breer
29 December 1956
Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll
01 January 1952
Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings.
31 December 1953
Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings.
01 January 1964
Breer's extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions.
01 January 1959
A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive
01 January 1953
Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings.
01 January 1953
Different stages of paintings made with ink. The ink fuses, spreads.
01 January 1956
Experimental film, in which against a black field, constantly changing coloured strips of paper cross the screen, meet each other and deflect at angles.
01 January 1962
A woman with an umbrella, a frog and other easily recognizable creatures and objects are moved and transformed within an intricate orchestration of expectations and surprises involving changes of scale, direction virtual depth, and above all, movement off the screen at all four edges.
01 January 1968
"A concise, one-minute cartoon history of the black American, commissioned by the Public Broadcast Laboratory and shown on NET network.
