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Robert Breer

Robert Breer

Born: 1926-09-30 • Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

Filmography
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film poster
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 • Himself
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty poster
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 • Self
Birth of a Nation poster
Birth of a Nation
1997 • Self
Robert Breer At Home poster
Robert Breer At Home
1992
No Image
Colliding
1989 • Himself
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life poster
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 • Self (archive footage)
Solstice and Solyanka poster
Solstice and Solyanka
1975