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
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Personal Info

Id

1094686

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

0

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-09-30

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

  • Robert Carlton Breer
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    Known For

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    Robert Breer

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

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    Birth of a Nation

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    Free Radical

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    Solstice and

    2011

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    asHimself

    2000

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

    asSelf

    1997

    Birth of a Nation

    asSelf

    1992

    Robert Breer At Home

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    1989

    Colliding

    asHimself

    1986

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    asSelf (archive footage)

    1975

    Solstice and Solyanka

    as