Robert Breer

Robert Breer

Directing

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

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,...Read more

Acting
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
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(1986) He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

as Self (archive footage)

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(1989) Colliding

as Himself

Robert Breer At Home
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(1992) Robert Breer At Home

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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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(2000) As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

as Self

Birth of a Nation
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(1997) Birth of a Nation

as Self

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
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(2011) Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

as Himself

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(1975) Solstice and Solyanka

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