Robert Breer Movies

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

"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...

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

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

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...

Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a...

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

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

A short film by Robert Breer

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...