Robert Breer

Known for: Directing
Born: September 30, 1926, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: August 11, 2011
Movies: 56

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.8

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

2000

4.9

Blazes

1961

5.7

Fuji

1974

5.1

Eyewash

1959

5.7

Bang!

1986

5.2

1969

5.2

Recreation

1956

5.3

1970

5.8

LMNO

1978

4.9

Jamestown Baloos

1957

Filmography

2011	Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film	Himself
2000	As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty	Self
1997	Birth of a Nation	Self
1992	Robert Breer At Home
1989	Colliding	Himself
1986	He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life	Self (archive footage)
1975	Solstice and Solyanka
1952	FASES DE LA LUNA I	director, autor

Directing, Writing & Producing

2003	What Goes Up....	Director
2000	Atoz	Director
1997	Time Flies	Director
1993	Sparkill Ave!	Director
1989	A Frog on the Swing	Director
1988	Blue Monday	Director
1986	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	Pat's Birthday	Director
1962	Horse Over Tea Kettle	Director
1961	Blazes	Director
1960	Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'	Director
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 II	Director
1956	Recreation	Director
1956	Motion Pictures No. 1	Director
1956	Cats	Director
1955	Image by Images IV	Director
1955	Image by Images II	Director
1955	Image by Images III	Director
1954	A Miracle	Director
1954	Image by Images	Director
1953	Form Phases IV	Director
1953	Form Phases II	Director
1953	Form Phases III	Director
1952	FASES DE LA LUNA I	Director
1952	Form Phases I	Director

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