Robert Breer
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday30 September 1926
Died11 August 2011 (age 84)
Place of birthDetroit, Michigan, USA
Known credits55
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 whi…
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Himself
What Goes Up....
2003 · Director
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · Self
Atoz
2000 · Director
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Time Flies
1997 · Director
Sparkill Ave!
1993 · Director
Robert Breer At Home
1992
Colliding
1989 · Himself
A Frog on the Swing
1989 · Director
Blue Monday
1988 · Director
Bang!
1986 · Director
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · Self (archive footage)
Trial Balloons
1982 · Director
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
1980 · Director
T.Z.
1979 · Director
LMNO
1978 · Director
77
1977 · Director
Rubber Cement
1976 · Director
Solstice and Solyanka
1975
Fuji
1974 · Director
Fuji
1974 · Cinematography
Gulls and Buoys
1972 · Director
70
1970 · Director
69
1969 · Director
PBL #2
1968 · Director
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Director
66
1966 · Director
Fist Fight
1964 · Director
Breathing
1963 · Director
Pat's Birthday
1962 · Director
Horse Over Tea Kettle
1962 · Director
Blazes
1961 · Director
Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
1960 · Director
Inner and Outer Space
1960 · Director
Eyewash
1959 · Director
Cassis Colank
1959 · Director
Eyewash (Alternate Version)
1959 · Director
Par avion
1958 · Director
A Man and His Dog Out for Air
1957 · Director
Jamestown Baloos
1957 · Director
The Movement
1957 · Director
Recreation II
1956 · Director
Recreation
1956 · Director
Motion Pictures No. 1
1956 · Director
Cats
1956 · Director
Image by Images IV
1955 · Director
Image by Images III
1955 · Director
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