Robert Frank Movies
- 2024
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006
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Super 8, 16mm film, and video transferred to HD video (six-channel projection, color and black and white, sound). Like many artists, Frank kept...
- 2009
Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age
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Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and...
- 1958
Provincetown
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Robert Frank’s unfinished first film offers a sense of his freewheeling style, an important aspect of his turn from photography to cinema, and...
- 2022
June and Robert Kara and Me
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"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....
- 1996
Flamingo
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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...
- 2006
Robert Frank Films
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Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.
- 2002
Paper Route
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In a simple, sensitive and entertaining video film, Robert Frank accompanies his local newspaper delivery boy during his morning round one chilly...
- 1996
Summer Cannibals
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In this punkish, puckish music video for a song from Patti Smith’s 1996 album Gone Again, Frank borrows Catholic signifiers from past films...
- 1972
This Is a Film About
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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...
- 2008
Tunnel
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Commissioned for an event commemorating the ongoing construction of a 21-mile tunnel through the Swiss Alps, Robert Frank’s experimental short...
- 2008
Fernando
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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...
- 1996
The Present
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Simple objects, photographs, and events prompt Frank to self-conscious rumination. From his homes in New York and Nova Scotia and on visits to...
- 1959
Pull My Daisy Production Footage
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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...
- 1969
Life-Raft Earth
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Liferaft Earth opens with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: "Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population...