Direction: Robert Breer

Direction Robert Breer

Plot 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.

Direction Robert Breer

Plot Bang! is not only Robert Breer’s most playful film but also his most autobiographical. In it, he combines various cartoon sequences with films from his personal archive showing him as...

Direction Robert Breer

Plot Form Phases IV is the last, closed and harmonic part of Robert Breer’s Form Phases series, focusing on abstract from in movement.

Direction Robert Breer

Direction Robert Breer

Plot 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.

Direction Robert Breer

Plot 100 basic images switching positions for four thousand frames. A continuous explosion.

Direction Robert Breer

Plot Fuji is a 1974 art film which explores director Robert Breer's artistic rendition of a train ride past Japan's Mt. Fuji, using line drawings, rotoscope and live action.

Direction Robert Breer

Plot 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 end when, at long...

Direction Robert Breer

Plot From Breer's Paris period, this short has voiceover in French, and is comprised of frame-by-frame collage work. From the UbuWeb page for Breer, "During this period, Breer also met the...

Direction Robert Breer

Plot This short contains strobing geometric images and shapes moving on a white background, until the strobing color takes over.

Direction Maurice Amor · Karl Bissenger · Tom Bissenger · Abbe Borov

Plot A political activism compilation film made by splicing together a series of clips centered around the Vietnam War by a number of different filmmakers.

Direction Robert Breer

Plot This film displays sinuous cutting between live action and animated images, rapid-fire association and transformation, a cat and mouse race between lines and shapes, story and abstraction, and a diabolical...

Direction Robert Breer

Plot 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...

Direction Robert Breer

Plot To make a list of recognizable images in the film is to get a hint of what it’s about: a breakfast table, a man slipping on a banana peel and...