Robert Breer
Born in 1926 in Detroit, Robert Breer 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 an experimental filmmaker. His films are composed of a jumble of images that pass at great speed, while his "Floats" (floating sculptures) 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 of movement, his work still today causes the space of reality -irrevocably unstable- to waver.
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Jamestown Baloos
A three part film. Cutouts of war machines and the figure of Napoleon - contributing to an anti-war theme - encounter abstract shapes, line drawings, old-master landscapes, short sequences of "real-time" landscapes and shakily photographed gestural watercolors … "a synthesis of all previous techniques."(Robert Breer)
A Man and His Dog Out For Air
People seem to read in the title of the film much more than what I put in it when I made the film. Seeing the man and his dog at the end of the film is a bit of a joke..., it's the absurdity that makes the audience accept what is actually a free play of pure lines and rhythms. "This is one of Breer's best animated films, one of the best known and most accessible too. The lines intersect a...
Jamestown Baloos
A three part film. Cutouts of war machines and the figure of Napoleon - contributing to an anti-war theme - encounter abstract shapes, line drawings, old-master landscapes, short sequences of "real-time" landscapes and shakily photographed gestural watercolors … "a synthesis of all previous techniques."(Robert Breer)
A Man and His Dog Out For Air
People seem to read in the title of the film much more than what I put in it when I made the film. Seeing the man and his dog at the end of the film is a bit of a joke..., it's the absurdity that makes the audience accept what is actually a free play of pure lines and rhythms. "This is one of Breer's best animated films, one of the best known and most accessible too. The lines intersect a...
