Robert Frank Movies
- 1971
About Me: A Musical
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A Musical Set in New York City
- 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...
- 1983
This Song for Jack
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In 1982, Robert Frank was on hand at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to film the Jack Kerouac Conference, a 25th-anniversary commemoration...
- 2024
Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films
Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films02024HD
An artist in his own right, Clark Winter captured the intimacy of his longtime friendships with Robert Frank and June Leaf in a series of videos shot...
- 2022
June and Robert Kara and Me
June and Robert Kara and Me02022HD
"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....
- 2005
Sanyu
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Sanyu (1901-1964), an important Chinese artist, was a friend of Robert Frank's who died in anonymity in Paris. In this film portrait, Frank creates a...
- 1969
Life-Raft Earth
Life-Raft Earth01969HD
Liferaft Earth opens with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: "Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population...
- 1985
Home Improvements
Home Improvements01985HD
Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship...
- 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...
- 1972
About Us
About Us01972HD
In Fall of 1971, artist Robert Frank came to Rochester, NY to conduct a course on filmmaking at the recently established alternative art school,...
- 1975
Keep Busy
Keep Busy01975HD
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...
- 2015
Life Goes On
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- 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...
- 2004
True Story
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“Tell the truth and shame the devil”: Robert Frank had turned 80 when he set out to make True Story, repurposing still photographs, home...
- 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.
- 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...
- 1970
Untitled 1971
Untitled 197101970HD
Billboards and American flags and pinball machines, empty corridors and bustling classrooms, the clowning faces of the students at Reed...
- 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...
- 2024
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage: New York 1971
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage: New York 197102024HD
After Robert Frank’s death in 2019, film canisters and video tapes were discovered in storage places, containing footage of Frank’s...
- 1972
This Is a Film About
This Is a Film About01972HD
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...