Robert Breer
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.
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as SelfA compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American...
Movie pageHe Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community...
Movie pageBirth of a Nation
as SelfFilmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Movie pageFree Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as HimselfExperimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking...
Movie pageRobert Breer At Home
as uncreditedBurford met Breer in February 1992 and filmed his actions. Breer manipulates some of his...
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