Robert Breer
Biography
Born in 1926 in Detroit, Robert Breer has spent fifty years building up a totally atypical body of work which plays with different genres and abolishes the notions of space and time. Starting off as a painter, he then deconstructed his neoplastic works and ended up with kinetic objects. He dealt next with the thresholds of awareness and perception, both as a sculptor and a film-maker. His films are composed of a jumble images that pass at great speed, while his Floats move almost imperceptibly, in accordance with an unpredictable logic. Robert Breer developed his light yet rigorous style while associating with the New York underground in the Pop years. Continuing his subtle exploration movement, he still today causes the space of reality-irrevocably unstable-to waver.
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Movies (50)
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself
2011
What Goes Up....
Director (Directing)
2003
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
2000
Atoz
Director (Directing)
2000
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1997
Time Flies
Director (Directing)
1997
Sparkill Ave!
Director (Directing)
1993
Robert Breer At Home
1992
Colliding
as Himself
1989
A Frog on the Swing
Director (Directing)
1989
Blue Monday
Director (Directing)
1988
Bang!
Director (Directing)
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
1986
Trial Balloons
Director (Directing)
1982
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
Director (Directing)
1980
T.Z.
Director (Directing)
1979
Lmno
Director (Directing)
1978
77
Director (Directing)
1977
Rubber Cement
Director (Directing)
1976
Solstice and Solyanka
1975
Fuji
Director (Directing)
1974
Gulls and Buoys
Director (Directing)
1972
70
Director (Directing)
1970
69
Director (Directing)
1969
PBL #2
Director (Directing)
1968
For Life, Against the War
Director (Directing)
1967
66
Director (Directing)
1966
Fist Fight
Director (Directing)
1964
Breathing
Director (Directing)
1963
Pat's Birthday
Director (Directing)
1962
Horse Over Tea Kettle
Director (Directing)
1962
Blazes
Director (Directing)
1961
Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
Director (Directing)
1960
Inner and Outer Space
Director (Directing)
1960
Eyewash
Director (Directing)
1959
Cassis Colank
Director (Directing)
1959
Eyewash (Alternate Version)
Director (Directing)
1959
Par avion
Director (Directing)
1958
A Man and His Dog Out for Air
Director (Directing)
1957
Jamestown Baloos
Director (Directing)
1957
The Movement
Director (Directing)
1957
Recreation II
Director (Directing)
1956
Recreation
Director (Directing)
1956
Motion Pictures No. 1
Director (Directing)
1956
Cats
Director (Directing)
1956
Image by Images IV
Director (Directing)
1955
Image by Images III
Director (Directing)
1955
Image by Images II
Director (Directing)
1955
A Miracle
Director (Directing)
1954
Image by Images
Director (Directing)
1954