Robert Breer
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-09-30
Day of Death
2011-08-11 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
Acting
(2011)
(2000)
(1997)
Birth of a Nation
as Self
(1992)
(1989)
Colliding
as Himself
(1986)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1975)
Crew
(2003)
What Goes Up....
Director
(2000)
Atoz
Director
(1997)
Time Flies
Director
(1993)
Sparkill Ave!
Director
(1989)
A Frog on the Swing
Director
(1986)
Bang!
Director
(1982)
Trial Balloons
Director
(1980)
(1979)
T.Z.
Director
(1978)
Lmno
Director
(1977)
77
Director
(1976)
Rubber Cement
Director
(1974)
Fuji
Director
(1972)
Gulls and Buoys
Director
(1970)
70
Director
(1969)
69
Director
(1968)
PBL #2
Director
(1967)
For Life, Against the War
Director
(1966)
66
Director
(1964)
Fist Fight
Director
(1963)
Breathing
Director
(1962)
Pat's Birthday
Director
(1962)
Horse Over Tea Kettle
Director
(1961)
Blazes
Director
(1960)
(1960)
Inner and Outer Space
Director
(1959)
Eyewash
Director
(1959)
Cassis Colank
Director
(1959)
Eyewash (Alternate Version)
Director
(1958)
Par avion
Director
(1957)
A Man and His Dog Out for Air
Director
(1957)
Jamestown Baloos
Director
(1957)
The Movement
Director
(1956)
Recreation
Director
(1956)
Motion Pictures No. 1
Director
(1956)
Cats
Director
(1956)
Recreation II
Director
(1955)
Image by Images IV
Director
(1955)
Image by Images III
Director
(1955)
Image by Images II
Director
(1954)
A Miracle
Director
(1954)
Image by Images
Director
(1953)
Form Phases II
Director
(1953)
Form Phases IV
Director
(1953)
Form Phases III
Director
(1952)
Form Phases I
Director