A key work of experimental animation is "A Man and His Dog Out For Air", in which he plays with the viewers' expectations by using the minimal techniques of line drawing and an associative level of sound. At the same time, the film demonstrates the possibilities of animation: representation, transformation, oscillation between abstraction and figuration...
"A Man and His Dog Out For Air" nevertheless is not one of Robert Breer's typical films, as they almost always contain heterogeneous and disparate sequences of pictures.
While the silent film "Form Phases V" is a strong reminder of the film and form experiments of the twenties in avant-garde films and partly prolongs Breer's ambitions as a painter in the field of geometric abstraction, a radical picture and film language can already be seen in "Recreation": quick cuts, material collages and sequences from life action films make this film a true film bricollage. It also shows that Breer is the forerunner of music clips without losing his artistic stringency. The combination of different materials and objects, photographs and drawings remains a central theme in his work despite the many developments. In 1968, he rightly received the Max Ernst Prize in Oberhausen. With "Jamestown Baloos" in 1957, a stronger political, media and culture critical way of seeing things is revealed in Breer's films. It is based on a tryptichon he saw in Lübeck. With the combination of picturesque elements and pictures from magazines his art is similar to that of Robert Rauschenberg, one of the most important representatives of Pop Art with whom he made the film "Linoleum" in 1966. The use of pin ups and war motives as in "Jamestown Baloos" is a theme often used by other representatives of Pop Art such as Eduardo Paolozzi, but Breer seems to have used it less affirmatively than the others. In the early seventies, he expanded his cinematic spectrum by using rotoscopy. The films became longer and quieter. The basic motif of the film "Fuji" is the view of a mountain with the same name from a train compartment. The tension between the movement of the train and the motionless monumentality of this symbol of nature is the great attraction. The film has calligraphic qualities due to his use of minimal lines. Not only does this film show Breer's interest in Zen Buddhism; an element of coincidence, which is very important in Zen Buddhism, plays a greater role here than in the other films. In this connection, Breer's thoughts can certainly be compared with the thoughts of the musician John Cage, who often worked with moments of coincidence and integrated everyday sounds into his compositions. Dealing with everyday things, i.e. newspapers, is a characteristic of some of his very early films ("Recreation", "Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons"...), but only in his later works do we clearly find personal elements. Such as in "Sparkill Ave!" (1993) where Breer shows scenes from the street in which he lives. Since the eighties, Breer has increasingly been working with life action film and sometimes uses writing. In "Bang" he uses written inserts to refer to the culture of comics and the transition from writing to the picture. At the same time, the film focuses on the Second World War as one of its central themes - a theme that is very important, in particular, in comics and which has been exploited umpteen times - in a similar way to Roy Lichtenstein in his silk-screen prints or Bruce Conner in his film "A Movie". By using his own children's drawings, he snatches the picture from a purely abstract and general level, which often drifts into an element of cynicism with other artists. At the same time, he shows - as they also did in the past - how a child's imagination is formed or deformed by the picture arsenal of the entertainment industry...
Despite the heterogeneity of Breer's collages, the different techniques he applies and the various themes he uses in his films, he has created very stringent works from an artistic point of view. In addition to his creations in the field of painting and sculpture, he has made over 40 films. The Movement of animation has always been the centre of his visions, regardless of whether we are talking of film, photography, painting, sculpture or Zen Buddhism, everyday life, formalism or humour.
Recreation
1956-57; 16mm; 2 Min.; colour
Robert Breer - Recreation (1956).mpg 
A Man and His Dog Out for Air
1957; 16mm; 3 Min.; black & white
Robert Breer - A Man And His Dog Out For Air (1957).mpg 69
1968; 16mm; 5 Min.; colour
Robert Breer - 69 (1968).mpg LMNO
1978; 16mm; 10 Min.; colour
Robert Breer - Lmno (1978).mpg Fuji
1974; 16mm; 10 Min.; colour
Robert Breer - Fuji (1974).mpg T.Z.
1979; 16mm; 8.30 Min.; colour
Robert Breer - T.Z. (1979).mpg Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
1980; 16mm; 6 Min.; colour
Robert Breer - Swiss Army Knife With Rats And Pigeons (1980).mpg Trial Balloons
1982 5.5 min 16mm
Robert Breer - Trial Balloons (1982).mpg http://www.chireader.com/movies/archive ... 6067b.html
... but please keep all this shared!
Could somebody put these 2 short on their incoming folder please ? thanks in advance