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.
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- 2011 ยทFree Radicals: A History of Experimental Filmas Himself
- 2000 ยทAs I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beautyas Self
- 1997 ยทBirth of a Nationas Self
- 1992 ยทRobert Breer At Homeas
- 1989 ยทCollidingas Himself
- 1986 ยทHe Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Lifeas Self (archive footage)