Six minutes of lines having an existential crisis. Mesmerizing or maddening? You decide.
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
Direction
Breer invented his own visual language
Editing
Cuts that shouldn't work but absolutely do
Director
Robert Breer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Breer was a painter first and brought that physical, gestural energy to every frame.
This 1963 short helped bridge European avant-garde traditions with American underground cinema—MoMA didn't just collect it, they championed it.
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