Robert Frank Movies

  • 2024
    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006

    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006

    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006

    02024HD

    Super 8, 16mm film, and video transferred to HD video (six-channel projection, color and black and white, sound). Like many artists, Frank kept...

    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006
  • 2009
    Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age

    Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age

    Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age

    12009HD

    Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and...

    Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age
  • 1958
    Provincetown

    Provincetown

    Provincetown

    01958HD

    Robert Frank’s unfinished first film offers a sense of his freewheeling style, an important aspect of his turn from photography to cinema, and...

    Provincetown
  • 2022
    June and Robert Kara and Me

    June and Robert Kara and Me

    June and Robert Kara and Me

    02022HD

    "In the summer of 2019 Kara [Walker] and I took our second and final visit to see Robert Frank and June Leaf at their place in Mabou, Nova Scotia....

    June and Robert Kara and Me
  • 1996
    Flamingo

    Flamingo

    Flamingo

    01996HD

    Is this house getting built or demolished? Robert Frank’s poetic visual report packed with disorienting close-ups leaves it up to the viewer to...

    Flamingo
  • 2006
    Robert Frank Films

    Robert Frank Films

    Robert Frank Films

    02006HD

    Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.

    Robert Frank Films
  • 2002
    Paper Route

    Paper Route

    Paper Route

    02002HD

    In a simple, sensitive and entertaining video film, Robert Frank accompanies his local newspaper delivery boy during his morning round one chilly...

    Paper Route
  • 1996
    Summer Cannibals

    Summer Cannibals

    Summer Cannibals

    01996HD

    In this punkish, puckish music video for a song from Patti Smith’s 1996 album Gone Again, Frank borrows Catholic signifiers from past films...

    Summer Cannibals
  • 1972
    This Is a Film About

    This Is a Film About

    This Is a Film About

    01972HD

    In the early 1970s Robert Frank and the Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka led a workshop at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where students...

    This Is a Film About
  • 2008
    Tunnel

    Tunnel

    Tunnel

    02008HD

    Commissioned for an event commemorating the ongoing construction of a 21-mile tunnel through the Swiss Alps, Robert Frank’s experimental short...

    Tunnel
  • 2008
    Fernando

    Fernando

    Fernando

    02008HD

    Robert Frank cared deeply about his friends and family, dedicating many of his photographs and films to them. This, the last video he completed in...

    Fernando
  • 1996
    The Present

    The Present

    The Present

    4.61996HD

    Simple objects, photographs, and events prompt Frank to self-conscious rumination. From his homes in New York and Nova Scotia and on visits to...

    The Present
  • 1959
    Pull My Daisy Production Footage

    Pull My Daisy Production Footage

    Pull My Daisy Production Footage

    01959HD

    Shot in Alfred Leslie’s Bowery loft on Fourth Avenue and 12th Street, this silent production footage belies the long-held belief that Pull My...

    Pull My Daisy Production Footage
  • 1969
    Life-Raft Earth

    Life-Raft Earth

    Life-Raft Earth

    01969HD

    Liferaft Earth opens with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: "Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population...

    Life-Raft Earth