Robert Breer

Known for DirectingBorn 1926-09-30Died 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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

PBL #2

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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Sparkill Ave!

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Recreation II

Motion Pictures No. 1

Atoz

Birth of a Nation

Time Flies

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

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Cats

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Form Phases III

T.Z.

Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons

Form Phases IV

Rubber Cement

Horse Over Tea Kettle

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Form Phases I

Gulls and Buoys

For Life, Against the War

Lmno

Form Phases II

Bang!

Trial Balloons

A Frog on the Swing

Fuji

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Breathing

A Man and His Dog Out for Air

Pat's Birthday

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What Goes Up....

Recreation

Eyewash

Fist Fight

Blazes

Jamestown Baloos

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Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'

A Miracle

Inner and Outer Space

Robert Breer At Home

Colliding