Cast & creator
Robert Breer
Best known for As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, The Movement, Birth of a Nation
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.
Also known as: Robert Carlton Breer
59
film credits
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television credits
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1952–2011 · acting roles
6.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (59)
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
2000
The Movement
Director
1957
Birth of a Nation
Self
1997
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1986
For Life, Against the War
Director
1967
A Miracle
Director
1954
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself
2011
Jamestown Baloos
Director
1957
Blue Monday
Director
1988
LMNO
Director
1978Cassis Colank
Director
1959
Eyewash
Director
1959
Breathing
Director
1963
FASES DE LA LUNA I
director
1952FASES DE LA LUNA I
autor
1952FASES DE LA LUNA I
Director
1952FASES DE LA LUNA I
Author
1952Colliding
Himself
1989
Trial Balloons
Director
1982
Fuji
Director
1974Fuji
Cinematography
1974
Rubber Cement
Director
1976Recreation II
Director
1956Par avion
Director
1958
Fist Fight
Director
1964
Time Flies
Director
1997
Bang!
Director
1986
Sparkill Ave!
Director
1993
77
Director
1977
Robert Breer At Home
1992
Cats
Director
1956
Atoz
Director
2000
Recreation
Director
1956
T.Z.
Director
1979
Image by Images
Director
1954
Eyewash (Alternate Version)
Director
1959
PBL #2
Director
1968
What Goes Up....
Director
2003
Motion Pictures No. 1
Director
1956
Form Phases III
Director
1953
Pat's Birthday
Director
1962
Blazes
Director
1961
70
Director
1970
A Frog on the Swing
Director
1989
Form Phases I
Director
1952
Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'
Director
1960Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons
Director
1980
Inner and Outer Space
Director
1960
Horse Over Tea Kettle
Director
1962A Man and His Dog Out for Air
Director
1957Image by Images III
Director
1955
Form Phases II
Director
1953Image by Images II
Director
1955
69
Director
1969
Form Phases IV
Director
1953
66
Director
1966
Image by Images IV
Director
1955
Solstice and Solyanka
1975
Gulls and Buoys
Director
1972