
Robert Breer
Born
September 30, 1926
Died
August 11, 2011 (84 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
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.
Known For

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself
2011

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

Birth of a Nation
Self
1997

Robert Breer At Home
1992
Colliding
Himself
1989

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1986

Solstice and Solyanka
1975