Robert Breer Filmes

  • 2000
    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 2011
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

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

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  • 1970
    70

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    "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...

    70
  • 1969
    69

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    69

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    Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.

    69
  • 1986
    Bang!

    Bang!

    Bang!

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    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...

    Bang!
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1954
    A Miracle

    A Miracle

    A Miracle

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    A collage film in which Pope Pious XII does a juggling act.

    A Miracle
  • 1982
    Trial Balloons

    Trial Balloons

    Trial Balloons

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    An experiment in associative spontaneity.

    Trial Balloons
  • 1954
    Image by Images

    Image by Images

    Image by Images

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    Image by Images
  • 1977
    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.

    77
  • 1989
    Colliding

    Colliding

    Colliding

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

    Colliding
  • 1952
    Form Phases I

    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...

    Form Phases I
  • 1959
    Eyewash

    Eyewash

    Eyewash

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

    Eyewash
  • 1957
    The Movement

    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...

    The Movement
  • 1989
    A Frog on the Swing

    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.

    A Frog on the Swing
  • 1953
    Form Phases IV

    Form Phases IV

    Form Phases IV

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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...

    Form Phases IV
  • 1972
    Gulls and Buoys

    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...

    Gulls and Buoys
  • 1963
    Breathing

    Breathing

    Breathing

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

    Breathing