Robert 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, 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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6248 |
| Birthday | 1926-09-30 |
| Place of Birth | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Also Known As | Robert Carlton Breer, |
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
8.4/10
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1989
Colliding
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Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.
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Colliding
1992
Robert Breer At Home
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Burford met Breer in February 1992 and filmed his actions. Breer manipulates some of his mutoscopes: he leafs through some cards of his film in the ma...
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Robert Breer At Home
2000
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
7.753/87
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
1997
Birth of a Nation
7/4
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast...
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Birth of a Nation
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
6.8/12
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up a...
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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
1975
Solstice and Solyanka
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Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of appeara...
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Solstice and Solyanka
1952
FASES DE LA LUNA I
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FASES DE LA LUNA I
1952
FASES DE LA LUNA I
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