Movies

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

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

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

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

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...

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

Animated short

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

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

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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

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

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

An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation...

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

Conceivably the best of all of Breer’s films to date – has more to do with figuration, according to Breer’s formulation regarding...

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...