Robert Breer

Director

Born: September 30, 1926
Died: August 11, 2011 (age 84)
From: 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…

Filmography (55)

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
Himself
What Goes Up.... (2003)
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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
Self
Atoz (2000)
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Birth of a Nation (1997)
Self
Time Flies (1997)
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Sparkill Ave! (1993)
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Robert Breer At Home (1992)
A Frog on the Swing (1989)
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Colliding
Colliding (1989)
Himself
Blue Monday (1988)
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Bang! (1986)
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
Self (archive footage)
Trial Balloons (1982)
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Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons (1980)
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T.Z. (1979)
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Lmno (1978)
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77 (1977)
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Rubber Cement (1976)
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Solstice and Solyanka (1975)
Fuji (1974)
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Gulls and Buoys (1972)
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70 (1970)
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69 (1969)
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PBL #2 (1968)
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For Life, Against the War (1967)
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66 (1966)
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Fist Fight (1964)
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Breathing (1963)
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Pat's Birthday (1962)
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