Robert Breer Movies

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

Breer was influenced by the new performance art and "happenings" making waves in the avant-garde of Europe and New York. He worked briefly with Claes...

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

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. Alternate version.

Documentation of an exhibition entitled Le Mouvement held in Paris in 1955, co-curated by Breer and Pontus Hulten. Features works and appearances by...

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

A short film by Robert Breer

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...

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