Robert Breer Movies

Sparkill Ave! combines still photos of Breer's home and environs with hand-drawn images of ordinary objects and scenes.

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

"A concise, one-minute cartoon history of the black American, commissioned by the Public Broadcast Laboratory and shown on NET network." - Canyon...

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

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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

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

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...