Director
Robert Breer
100 years · Detroit, Michigan, USA · 47 films
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 for
Filmography 47
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Himself
On Kanopy
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 · Actor
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)
On DocAlliance Films
Trial Balloons
1982 · Director
T.Z.
1979 · Director
LMNO
1978 · Director
77
1977 · Director
Rubber Cement
1976 · Director
Solstice and Solyanka
1975 · Actor
Fuji
1974 · Director
Gulls and Buoys
1972 · Director
70
1970 · Director
69
1969 · Director
PBL #2
1968 · Director
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Director