Robert Breer

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-09-30 (85 years old)

Deathday

2011-08-11

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

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 th...

Production

1986

Bang!

as Director

1978

Lmno

as Director

1974

Fuji

as Director

1961

Blazes

as Director

1957

Jamestown Baloos

as Director

1953

Form Phases II

as Director

1962

Pat's Birthday

as Director

1970

70

as Director

1952

Form Phases I

as Director

1956

Recreation

as Director

1963

Breathing

as Director

1964

Fist Fight

as Director

1969

69

as Director

1966

66

as Director

1959

Eyewash

as Director

2003

What Goes Up....

as Director

1979

T.Z.

as Director

1982

Trial Balloons

as Director

1972

Gulls and Buoys

as Director

1956

1997

Time Flies

as Director

1953

Form Phases IV

as Director

1954

A Miracle

as Director

1976

Rubber Cement

as Director

1993

Sparkill Ave!

as Director

1989

2000

Atoz

as Director

1977

77

as Director

1968

PBL #2

as Director

1956

Cats

as Director

1956

Recreation II

as Director

1962

1960

1955

1953

Form Phases III

as Director

1955

1954

Image by Images

as Director

1955

1959

Cassis Colank

as Director

1958

Par avion

as Director

1957

The Movement

as Director

1988

Blue Monday

as Director

1974

Fuji

as Cinematography

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