Robert Frank Movies
- 1989
Run
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Jonathan Demme wrote that “Robert Frank’s very short film Run, set to New Order’s tune of the same name, remains one of the most...
- 1963
O.K. End Here
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O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots...
- 2015
Life Goes On
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- 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's Scrapbook Footage: New York 1971
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After Robert Frank’s death in 2019, film canisters and video tapes were discovered in storage places, containing footage of Frank’s...
- 1989
Hunter
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In the words of Robert Frank, Hunter is about “. . . a man whose destiny is not to find a destination. . . . A man who fears that he will never...
- 1972
Food
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This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food...
- 2017
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
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The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own...
- 1973
Sunseed
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This documentary explores the growing American interest in the 1970s in Eastern religions and philosophy. The teachings and lifestyles of ten...
- 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...
- 1971
About Me: A Musical
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A Musical Set in New York City
- 1984
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
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Longtime friends and frequent foils, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appeared onstage together countless times over the years, reading to audiences...
- 1970
Untitled 1971
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Billboards and American flags and pinball machines, empty corridors and bustling classrooms, the clowning faces of the students at Reed...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1980
Project Tesla
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This rarely screened film was used to raise funds for the making of Energy and How to Get It. High-energy physicist Robert Golka was granted a lease...
- 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...
- 1972
About Us
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In Fall of 1971, artist Robert Frank came to Rochester, NY to conduct a course on filmmaking at the recently established alternative art school,...