Robert Breer

Robert Breer

b. 1926 — d. 2011 (aged 85) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Cinematographer Director

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

Filmography

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
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★ 6.9
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 Self
What Goes Up
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★ 5.5
What Goes Up
2003 Director Cinematographer
Atoz
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★ 6.5
Atoz
2000 Director
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Amerikanarna och Pontus Hultén: Moderna Muséets 60-tal
1998 Self
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Konsten på Moderna
1998 Self
Time Flies
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★ 6.4
Time Flies
1997 Director
Sparkill Ave!
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★ 6.6
Sparkill Ave!
1992 Director
A Frog on the Swing
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A Frog on the Swing
1989 Director
Bang!
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★ 5.6
Bang!
1986 Director
Birth of a Nation
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★ 7.2
Birth of a Nation
1983 Self
Trial Balloons
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★ 6.4
Trial Balloons
1982 Director Cinematographer
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★ 6.4
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
1980 Director
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★ 7.0
T.Z.
1979 Director
Lmno
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★ 5.8
Lmno
1978 Director
77
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★ 5.7
77
1977 Director
Rubber Cement
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★ 7.0
Rubber Cement
1976 Director
Fuji
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★ 6.0
Fuji
1974 Director Cinematographer
Gulls and Buoys
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★ 6.1
Gulls and Buoys
1972 Director
70
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★ 4.8
70
1970 Director
69
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★ 5.0
69
1968 Director
Pbl 2
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★ 7.2
Pbl 2
1968 Director
Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
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★ 4.5
Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
1967 Director
For Life, Against the War
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For Life, Against the War
1967 Director
66
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★ 5.3
66
1966 Director
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Linoleum
1966 Actor
Fist Fight
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★ 5.7
Fist Fight
1964 Director
Breathing
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★ 4.6
Breathing
1963 Director
Pat's Birthday
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★ 5.2
Pat's Birthday
1962 Director
Horse Over Tea Kettle
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★ 6.9
Horse Over Tea Kettle
1962 Director
Blazes
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★ 4.9
Blazes
1961 Director
A Man and His Dog Out for Air
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★ 5.1
A Man and His Dog Out for Air
1960 Director Writer
Inner and Outer Space
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★ 5.2
Inner and Outer Space
1960 Director
Eyewash
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★ 5.6
Eyewash
1959 Director
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Par avion
1958 Director
Jamestown Baloos
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★ 5.6
Jamestown Baloos
1957 Director
Recreation
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★ 5.3
Recreation
1956 Director
Cats
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★ 6.0
Cats
1956 Director
Motion Pictures
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★ 5.7
Motion Pictures
1956 Director
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Recreation II
1956 Director
Image by Images IV
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★ 6.2
Image by Images IV
1955 Director
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Image by Images II
1955 Director
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Image by Images III
1955 Director
Form Phases IV
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★ 6.3
Form Phases IV
1954 Director
A Miracle
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★ 5.9
A Miracle
1954 Director
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Un Miracle
1954 Director Writer Cinematographer
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Image by Images
1954 Director
Form Phases II
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★ 4.9
Form Phases II
1953 Director
Form Phases III
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★ 5.2
Form Phases III
1953 Director
Form Phases
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★ 4.8
Form Phases
1952 Director