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The Best Robert Breer Directed Movies

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poster

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5.6

/298/

40

/13/

49

/22/

3.4

/1080/

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

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17

5.1

/369/

42

/17/

53

/25/

3.2

/665/

While birds can be heard singing a shrill song, lines crisscross wildly as if they aimed to form shapes. Their efforts seem hopeless until the very end ,,,

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51

17

4.9

/322/

43

/17/

47

/27/

3.3

/666/

100 basic images switching positions for 4000 frames.

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17

6.0

/363/

48

/17/

57

/21/

3.4

/612/

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-esque Japanese landscape of electrical power lines, passing trains, railroad tracks, and the gentle slope of obliquely peaked, uniform rooflines as Breer distills the essential geometry of Mount Fuji into a collage of acute angles and converging (and bifurcating) lines .

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13

5.3

/276/

40

/13/

51

/19/

3.3

/516/

Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and intensity has been compared to contemporary Beat poetry.

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13

5.0

/235/

41

/13/

50

/20/

3.2

/447/

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

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12

5.6

/236/

45

/14/

56

/20/

3.4

/254/

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 words.

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11

4.8

/195/

40

/16/

50

/17/

3.3

/365/

"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 major colorists of the avant-garde." – P. Adams Sitney

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9

5.5

/172/

43

/8/

48

/15/

3.4

/273/

Robert Breer’s What Goes Up... continues his “kitchen sink” approach of including as many different kinds of things as possible. Central to his art are a series of tensions. Rather than using animation to produce seamless illusions, his films reveal cinema’s dual nature as both an illusion of movement and a succession of stills. The ultimate effect of his work is ecstatic: by combining various rhythmic patterns, abstract and photographed shapes, and flatness mixed with depth illusions, Breer energizes ordinary eyesight. The whole world can seem more alive, alive with rhythms and colors and shapes and textures as well, after seeing one of his films. But Breer’s films also often have a theme of failure, of failed movements and failed aspirations, and the title What Goes Up..., in referencing the idiom “What goes up must come down”, refers to his childhood dreams of flying (illustrated here as in many of his films with airplanes) as well as to the limpness that follows orgasm for males.

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8

6.3

/72/

20

/2/

65

/11/

3.4

/218/

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

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10

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40

/1/

A woman with an umbrella, a frog and other easily recognizable creatures and objects are moved and transformed within an intricate orchestration of expectations and surprises involving changes of scale, direction virtual depth, and above all, movement off the screen at all four edges.

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10

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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 Breer, Tinguely, Agam, Soto, and others. — Anthology Film Archives

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6.4

/37/

43

/3/

67

/6/

Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a general sense of reminiscence. Sometimes a hand appears (Breer’s own) on top of a photo, reminding us that the photo is but an object in the film, not the film itself.

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5.2

/25/

20

/2/

50

/1/

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

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5.9

/11/

10

/1/

30

/1/

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

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10

/1/

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

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6.1

/11/

10

/1/

40

/1/

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

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6.4

/42/

33

/3/

48

/6/

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

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6.5

/10/

20

/1/

60

/2/

An animated film dedicated to Breer's granddaughter Zoë.

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7.2

/9/

36

/3/

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

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5.0

/6/

10

/1/

40

/1/

An animated fable centered around a backyard pond shown intermittently in live-action scenes.

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5.8

/7/

45

/2/

50

/1/

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

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5.3

/56/

43

/6/

33

/3/

Abstract, quasi-geometric study in interrupted continuity.

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7.0

/38/

53

/3/

64

/7/

An elegant home movie, its subject is Breer's apartment which faces the Tappan Zee (T.Z.) Bridge. It is permeated, as are all his films, with subtle humor, eroticism and a sense of imminent chaos and catastrophe.

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5.2

/39/

33

/3/

50

/1/

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 Oldenburg and his performance pieces resulting in a 13 minute film, Pat's Birthday (1962). - AWN

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5.0

/42/

30

/3/

50

/1/

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

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4.8

/43/

33

/3/

50

/1/

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

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6.1

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41

/6/

59

/7/

An abstract view of a seacoast landscape, created by mixing original line drawings and rotoscoped imagery traced from live-action footage, presented against a sound track of seaside noises.

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4.6

/62/

23

/3/

49

/7/

Breer’s animation explores the theme and variation of the drawn line: a line in constant movement and transformation. With a very sketchy style, he demonstrates how a simple, abstract image can fill and satisfy the imagination of the film viewer. - MoMA

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5.7

/78/

48

/5/

46

/8/

Breer's extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions. Originally presented as part of Karlheinz Sotckhausen's 1964 premiere of Originale. - Harvard Film Archive

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4.4

/96/

38

/9/

41

/7/

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 a wide range of camera and editing techniques to give it a life of its own, independent of and parallel to the subject. — Anthology Film Archives

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A short film by Robert Breer

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A short film by Robert Breer

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5.8

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48

/11/

57

/15/

Conceivably the best of all of Breer’s films to date – has more to do with figuration, according to Breer’s formulation regarding titles with letters or numbers. This becomes clear right away as the title letters are intercut with a flurry of fish swimming past the frame lines, which are made all the more literal through the associative chain established by a snippet of Schubert’s Trout Quintet heard on the soundtrack, along with footsteps – which continue over a profusion of other shapes, colors, and objects, including the title letters again. -- Jonathan Rosenbaum

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6.4

/101/

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/6/

63

/10/

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 69, Breer delves into the very basis of animation to explore how a variety of easily recognisable objects can be portrayed and manipulated differently using pixillation and classically drawn animation. -Malcolm Turner

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5.5

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Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon – contributors to an anti-war theme – encounter abstract shapes, line drawings, old-master landscapes, short bursts of ‘real-time’ landscapes and shakily photographed gestural watercolors. … ‘a synthesis of all previous techniques.’

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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 style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival Week of the Angry Arts, the epic compilation film incorporated minute-long segments which were sent from many corners of the country, spliced together and projected. The original presentation of the works was more of an open forum with no curation or selection, and in 2000 Anthology Film Archives preserved a print featuring around 40 films from over 60 submissions.

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A number of simple mechanical objects spiral out of a spray-paint nebula then implode into pure pattern and line.

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Animated short

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

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