Robert Breer

Born: 1926-09-30

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.


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

as Self
Released: 2000-11-05

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American...

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Birth of a Nation

as Self
Released: 1997-08-06

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

as Self
Released: 1986-02-22

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community...

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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

as Himself
Released: 2011-07-24

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking...

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Robert Breer At Home

as uncredited
Released: 1992-01-01

Burford met Breer in February 1992 and filmed his actions. Breer manipulates some of his...

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