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.

Filmography of Robert Breer

  • What Goes Up.... (2003)
  • Atoz (2000)
  • Time Flies (1997)
  • Sparkill Ave! (1993)
  • A Frog on the Swing (1989)
  • Blue Monday (1988)
  • Bang! (1986)
  • Trial Balloons (1982)
  • T.Z. (1979)
  • LMNO (1978)
  • 77 (1977)
  • Rubber Cement (1976)
  • Fuji (1974)
  • Gulls and Buoys (1972)
  • 70 (1970)
  • 69 (1969)
  • PBL #2 (1968)
  • For Life, Against the War (1967)
  • 66 (1966)
  • Fist Fight (1964)
  • Breathing (1963)
  • Pat's Birthday (1962)
  • Horse Over Tea Kettle (1962)
  • Blazes (1961)
  • Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York' (1960)
  • Inner and Outer Space (1960)
  • Eyewash (1959)
  • Eyewash (Alternate Version) (1959)
  • Jamestown Baloos (1957)
  • The Movement (1957)
  • Recreation (1956)
  • Motion Pictures No. 1 (1956)
  • Cats (1956)
  • Image by Images IV (1955)
  • A Miracle (1954)
  • Image by Images (1954)
  • Form Phases II (1953)
  • Form Phases IV (1953)
  • Form Phases III (1953)
  • Form Phases I (1952)