Person
Robert Breer
Directing · 1926–2011 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
Known for
FASES DE LA LUNA I
director
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
Birth of a Nation
Self
Blue Monday
Director
77
Director
A Miracle
Director
Recreation
Director
The Movement
Director
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
Rubber Cement
Director
Filmography
- 2011Free Radicals: A History of Experimental FilmHimself
- 2003What Goes Up....Director
- 2000As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of BeautySelf
- 2000AtozDirector
- 1997Birth of a NationSelf
- 1997Time FliesDirector
- 1993Sparkill Ave!Director
- 1992Robert Breer At Home
- 1989CollidingHimself
- 1989A Frog on the SwingDirector
- 1988Blue MondayDirector
- 1986Bang!Director
- 1986He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His LifeSelf (archive footage)
- 1982Trial BalloonsDirector
- 1980Swiss Army Knife with Rats and PigeonsDirector
- 1979T.Z.Director
- 1978LmnoDirector
- 197777Director
- 1976Rubber CementDirector
- 1975Solstice and Solyanka
- 1974FujiDirector
- 1972Gulls and BuoysDirector
- 197070Director
- 196969Director
- 1968PBL #2Director
- 1967For Life, Against the WarDirector
- 196666Director
- 1964Fist FightDirector
- 1963BreathingDirector
- 1962Pat's BirthdayDirector
- 1962Horse Over Tea KettleDirector
- 1961BlazesDirector
- 1960Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'Director
- 1960Inner and Outer SpaceDirector
- 1959EyewashDirector
- 1959Cassis ColankDirector
- 1959Eyewash (Alternate Version)Director
- 1958Par avionDirector
- 1957A Man and His Dog Out for AirDirector
- 1957Jamestown BaloosDirector
- 1957The MovementDirector
- 1956Recreation IIDirector
- 1956RecreationDirector
- 1956Motion Pictures No. 1Director
- 1956CatsDirector
- 1955Image by Images IVDirector
- 1955Image by Images IIDirector
- 1955Image by Images IIIDirector
- 1954A MiracleDirector
- 1954Image by ImagesDirector
- 1953Form Phases IVDirector
- 1953Form Phases IIDirector
- 1953Form Phases IIIDirector
- 1952FASES DE LA LUNA Idirector
- 1952Form Phases IDirector
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