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Robert Breer (1926-2011)

Alias:
Robert Carlton Breer

Birthplace:
Detroit, Michigan, USA

Born:
September 30, 1926

Died:
August 11, 2011

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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1952  Form Phases I
1953  Form Phases II
1953  Form Phases III
1953  Form Phases IV
1954  A Miracle
1954  Image by Images
1955  Image by Images II
1955  Image by Images III
1955  Image by Images IV
1956  Cats
1956  Motion Pictures No. 1
1956  Recreation
1956  Recreation II
1957  A Man and His Dog Out for Air
1957  Jamestown Baloos
1957  The Movement
1958  Par avion
1959  Cassis Colank
1959  Eyewash
1959  Eyewash (Alternate Version)
1960  Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
1960  Inner and Outer Space
1961  Blazes
1962  Horse Over Tea Kettle
1962  Pat's Birthday
1963  Breathing
1964  Fist Fight
1966  66
1967  For Life, Against the War
1969  69
1970  70
1970  PBL #2
1972  Gulls and Buoys
1974  Fuji
1976  Rubber Cement
1977  77
1978  Lmno
1979  T.Z.
1980  Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
1982  Trial Balloons
1986  Bang!
1988  New Order: Blue Monday 1988
1989  A Frog on the Swing
1993  Sparkill Ave!
1997  Time Flies
2000  Atoz
2003  What Goes Up....

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