Birthday
1926/09/30
Day of death
2011/08/11 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also know as
Robert Carlton 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,...Read more
(1986) He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1989) Colliding
as Himself
(1992) Robert Breer At Home
as ---
(2000) As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
(1997) Birth of a Nation
as Self
(2011) Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself
(1975) Solstice and Solyanka
as ---