Robert Breer

A rotoscoped short film of the view inside an airplane.

Flashing shapes and colors.

Animation on paper. (BFI)

One of Breer's most lyrical films, Trial Balloons combines home movies with animation and hand-cut traveling mattes. (michaelspornanimation.com)

... a French gendarme weaves a hapless path through the films strobe-attacks, disparate drawing styles, and variable scale... Framed by underwater and travel imagery, the central section's faucets and aerosols, collapsing tents and outsized croquet games, breakfast foods and sexual violence, all suggest domestic frustration. (aurora.org.uk)

A pencil drawn animation of squiggles transforming into various shapes.

a fragmentary voice-over text delivered in an affectless monotone which may or may not be a description of the cascade of images to follow. The mechanical tempo of the voice, the propulsive staccato of the individual, unrelated frames yields a vision of hallucinatory intensity: the viewer struggles to impose order and meaning only to be tripped up by the sudden appearance of a toy chicken. (geogrif.com)

The introductory sequence of a rough sketch illustrating a closed Swiss army knife that is interlaced with images of a hand drawn rat presents the eccentric association of seemingly mutually exclusive objects. (aurora.org.uk)

One hundred basic images switching positions for four thousand frames. A continuous explosion.

"Bang! reveals Breer at his most accomplished and most playful. It is also his most autobiographical film - the youngster paddling a boat is Breer as a boy and the pencil cartoon sequences were drawn by Breer when he was around ten years old. Breer inserts a photo of himself with a question mark scrawled over his head, accompanied by the words 'Don't be smart.' But he can't help it - he is." (Katherine Dieckmann)

A mix of various visual styles including drawings, collages and videos to explore various aspects of life an artist addresses.

This picture is re-photographed from animation projected on still slides, and relies on transformations for its major effects. Many blurs, some nice abstract images. (mubi.com)

Animated collage in three parts set to a marching drum.

A visual collage of various types of images: animation, drawings, still photography and video.

A variety of hand drawn shapes flashing and alternating in different combinations.

Flipbook style hand drawn animation of lakeside scenes

Shapes of various colours move around the screen.

Shapes of various colours morph and shift.

The final act of Breer's Form Phases series with more varied shapes colour and movement.

A day in the country with Claes Oldenburg and the Ray Gun Theatre Players ... includes such classic items as the haunted house, a gas station, ice cream stand, miniature golf, airplane noises, balloons. Things happen after each other in this film only because there isn't room for everything at once. (lightcone.org)

Short animation of some squiggly lines on film.

Short hand drawn representation of a cat.

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. (mubi)

A recording of the life and death of a selfdestructing sculpture by Jean Tinguely. Filmed at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York, this film also deploys numerous camera techniques, which gives the film its own life, independent of but parallel to its subject. (iffr.com)

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. (Letterboxd)