Directing

Robert Breer

Born 1926-09-30

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Department: Directing

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.

1970

TMDB2.6

Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (59 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film	Himself	Movie	2011
What Goes Up....	Director	Movie	2003
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty	Self	Movie	2000
Atoz	Director	Movie	2000
Birth of a Nation	Self	Movie	1997
Time Flies	Director	Movie	1997
Sparkill Ave!	Director	Movie	1993
Robert Breer At Home	Self / Appearance	Movie	1992
Colliding	Himself	Movie	1989
A Frog on the Swing	Director	Movie	1989
Blue Monday	Director	Movie	1988
Bang!	Director	Movie	1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life	Self (archive footage)	Movie	1986
Trial Balloons	Director	Movie	1982
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons	Director	Movie	1980
T.Z.	Director	Movie	1979
LMNO	Director	Movie	1978
77	Director	Movie	1977
Rubber Cement	Director	Movie	1976
Solstice and Solyanka	Self / Appearance	Movie	1975
Fuji	Director	Movie	1974
Fuji	Cinematography	Movie	1974
Gulls and Buoys	Director	Movie	1972
70	Director	Movie	1970
69	Director	Movie	1969
PBL #2	Director	Movie	1968
For Life, Against the War	Director	Movie	1967
66	Director	Movie	1966
Fist Fight	Director	Movie	1964
Breathing	Director	Movie	1963
Pat's Birthday	Director	Movie	1962
Horse Over Tea Kettle	Director	Movie	1962
Blazes	Director	Movie	1961
Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'	Director	Movie	1960
Inner and Outer Space	Director	Movie	1960
Eyewash	Director	Movie	1959
Cassis Colank	Director	Movie	1959
Eyewash (Alternate Version)	Director	Movie	1959
Par avion	Director	Movie	1958
A Man and His Dog Out for Air	Director	Movie	1957
Jamestown Baloos	Director	Movie	1957
The Movement	Director	Movie	1957
Recreation II	Director	Movie	1956
Recreation	Director	Movie	1956
Motion Pictures No. 1	Director	Movie	1956
Cats	Director	Movie	1956
Image by Images IV	Director	Movie	1955
Image by Images III	Director	Movie	1955
Image by Images II	Director	Movie	1955
A Miracle	Director	Movie	1954
Image by Images	Director	Movie	1954
Form Phases IV	Director	Movie	1953
Form Phases II	Director	Movie	1953
Form Phases III	Director	Movie	1953
FASES DE LA LUNA I	director	Movie	1952
FASES DE LA LUNA I	autor	Movie	1952
FASES DE LA LUNA I	Director	Movie	1952
FASES DE LA LUNA I	Author	Movie	1952
Form Phases I	Director	Movie	1952