Robert Breer
Known for DirectingBorn 1926-09-30 — died 2011-08-11Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
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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
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · as Self
Birth of a Nation
1997 · as Self
FASES DE LA LUNA I
1952 · as director
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · as Self (archive footage)
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · as Himself
Colliding
1989 · as Himself
Robert Breer At Home
1992
Solstice and Solyanka
1975