Robert Breer
Born: 1926-09-30 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 2011-08-11
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2011
2003
- What Goes Up.... ... (Director)
2000
- As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty as Self
- Atoz ... (Director)
1997
- Birth of a Nation as Self
- Time Flies ... (Director)
1993
- Sparkill Ave! ... (Director)
1992
1989
- Colliding as Himself
- A Frog on the Swing ... (Director)
1988
- Blue Monday ... (Director)
1986
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
- Bang! ... (Director)
1982
- Trial Balloons ... (Director)
1980
- Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons ... (Director)
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
- Horse Over Tea Kettle ... (Director)
- Pat's Birthday ... (Director)
1961
- Blazes ... (Director)
1960
- Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York' ... (Director)
- Inner and Outer Space ... (Director)
1959
- Cassis Colank ... (Director)
- Eyewash ... (Director)
- Eyewash (Alternate Version) ... (Director)
1958
- Par avion ... (Director)
1957
- The Movement ... (Director)
- A Man and His Dog Out for Air ... (Director)
- Jamestown Baloos ... (Director)
1956
- Recreation ... (Director)
- Recreation II ... (Director)
- Cats ... (Director)
- Motion Pictures No. 1 ... (Director)
1955
- Image by Images III ... (Director)
- Image by Images II ... (Director)
- Image by Images IV ... (Director)
1954
- Image by Images ... (Director)
- A Miracle ... (Director)
1953
- Form Phases II ... (Director)
- Form Phases III ... (Director)
- Form Phases IV ... (Director)
1952
- Form Phases I ... (Director)