About

Known credits:
52
Birthday:
1926-09-30
Place of birth:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Website:
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Robert Breer

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
2011 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film Actor Himself 59
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2000 As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty Actor Self 61
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1997 Birth of a Nation Actor Self 58
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1992 Robert Breer At Home Actor N/A
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1989 Colliding Actor Himself N/A
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1986 He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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Directing
2003 What Goes Up.... Directing Director 58
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2000 Atoz Directing Director 59
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1997 Time Flies Directing Director 59
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1993 Sparkill Ave! Directing Director 59
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1989 A Frog on the Swing Directing Director 59
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1986 Bang! Directing Director 59
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1982 Trial Balloons Directing Director 59
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1980 Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons Directing Director 59
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1979 T.Z. Directing Director 59
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1978 Lmno Directing Director 59
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1977 77 Directing Director 59
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1976 Rubber Cement Directing Director 59
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1974 Fuji Directing Director 58
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1972 Gulls and Buoys Directing Director 59
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1970 PBL #2 Directing Director N/A
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1970 70 Directing Director 59
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1969 69 Directing Director 58
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1967 For Life, Against the War Directing Director 59
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1966 66 Directing Director 59
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1964 Fist Fight Directing Director 58
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1963 Breathing Directing Director 59
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1962 Horse Over Tea Kettle Directing Director 59
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1962 Pat's Birthday Directing Director 59
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1961 Blazes Directing Director 58
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1960 Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York' Directing Director 58
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1960 Inner and Outer Space Directing Director 59
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1959 Cassis Colank Directing Director N/A
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1959 Eyewash Directing Director 58
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1958 Par avion Directing Director N/A
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1957 A Man and His Dog Out for Air Directing Director 58
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1957 Jamestown Baloos Directing Director 58
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1957 The Movement Directing Director N/A
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1956 Recreation II Directing Director N/A
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1956 Cats Directing Director 59
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1956 Recreation Directing Director 59
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1956 Motion Pictures No. 1 Directing Director 59
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1955 Image by Images IV Directing Director 59
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1955 Image by Images II Directing Director N/A
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1955 Image by Images III Directing Director N/A
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1954 Un Miracle Directing Director N/A
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1954 Image by Images Directing Director N/A
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1954 A Miracle Directing Director 59
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1953 Form Phases IV Directing Director 59
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1953 Form Phases II Directing Director 59
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1953 Form Phases III Directing Director 59
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1952 Form Phases I Directing Director 59
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