Robert Breer Movies
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.6812000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
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- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life8.21986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
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- 1997
Birth of a Nation
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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- 2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film6.72011HD
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...
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- 1980
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons6.31980HD
Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...
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- 1960
Inner and Outer Space
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- 1972
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...
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- 1974
Fuji
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A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...
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- 1961
Blazes
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100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.
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- 1966
66
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Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.
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- 1952
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...
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- 1953
Form Phases II
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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...
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- 1954
A Miracle
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A collage film in which Pope Pious XII does a juggling act.
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- 1968
PBL #2
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"A concise, one-minute cartoon history of the black American, commissioned by the Public Broadcast Laboratory and shown on NET network." - Canyon...
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- 2000
Atoz
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An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.
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- 1967
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...
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- 1969
69
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Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.
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- 1975
Solstice and Solyanka
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Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...
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- 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...
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- 1989
Colliding
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Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.
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