Country: USA
Year: 1969
Duration: 5'


Biography

film director

Robert Breer

Robert Breer (Detroit, 1926) lived in Paris from 1949 to 1959, studying the avant-garde movements of the 1920's. He attended the Denise Rene Gallery, specializing in geometric art, and saw the abstract films of authors like Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Walter Ruttman and Fernand Leger. He returned to the United States toward the end of the 1950's and began working for the television show David Brinkley's Journal. During those years, the films of Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka and Marie Menken began circulating, creating a new movement that signaled a break with the past. In 1961 he made his first documentary, Homage to Tinguely, in tribute to the sculptor. He then began exploring animated films with A Man With his Dog Out for Air and Inner and Outer Space. He now teaches animation at the Cooper Union in New York.

FILMOGRAFIA

A Miracle (cm,1954), Recreation (cm, 1956), Jamestown Baloos (cm, 1957), A Man and His Dog Out for Air (cm, 1957), Blazes (cm, 1961), Pat's Birthday (cm, 1962), Breathing (cm, 1963), Fist Fight(cm, 1964), Homage to Jean Tinguely's Homage to New York (cm, 1968), 69 (cm, 1968), PBL #2 (cm, 1968), 70 (cm, 1970), Gulls & Buoys (cm, 1972), Fuji (cm, 1974), Rubber Cement (cm, 1976), 77 (cm, 1977), LMNO (cm, 1978), T.Z. (cm, 1979), Swiss Army Knife With Rats and Pigeons (cm, 1981), Trial Balloons (cm, 1982), Bang (cm, 1986), A Frog on the Swing (cm, 1989), Time Flies (cm, 1997), Hub City (cm, 1997), Confederation Park (cm, 1999), Atoz (cm, 2000), What Goes Up (cm, 2003).

Cast

& Credits

Filmmaker: Robert Breer.
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