Robert Breer

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Blazes (1961) — Director
2. A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1957) — Director
3. Fuji (1974) — Director
4. Eyewash (1959) — Director
5. Bang! (1986) — Director
6. 69 (1969) — Director
7. Recreation (1956) — Director
8. 70 (1970) — Director
9. LMNO (1978) — Director
10. Jamestown Baloos (1957) — Director
11. What Goes Up.... (2003) — Director
12. Form Phases IV (1953) — Director
13. Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons (1980) — Director
14. Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York' (1960) — Director
15. Fist Fight (1964) — Director
16. Gulls and Buoys (1972) — Director
17. Breathing (1963) — Director
18. T.Z. (1979) — Director
19. Trial Balloons (1982) — Director
20. Time Flies (1997) — Director
21. 66 (1966) — Director
22. A Miracle (1954) — Director
23. Pat's Birthday (1962) — Director
24. Atoz (2000) — Director
25. Form Phases II (1953) — Director
26. Form Phases I (1952) — Director
27. Motion Pictures No. 1 (1956) — Director
28. Rubber Cement (1976) — Director
29. Sparkill Ave! (1993) — Director
30. A Frog on the Swing (1989) — Director
31. 77 (1977) — Director
32. Cats (1956) — Director
33. Horse Over Tea Kettle (1962) — Director
34. Image by Images IV (1955) — Director
35. Form Phases III (1953) — Director
36. PBL #2 (1968) — Director
37. Recreation II (1956) — Director
38. For Life, Against the War (1967) — Director
39. Inner and Outer Space (1960) — Director
40. Image by Images III (1955) — Director

Also appeared in

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