Robert Frank Movies
- 1971
Conversations in Vermont
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Produced in 1969, this was Frank’s first autobiographical film, telling the story of a father’s relationship with his two teenaged...
- 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....
- 1992
Last Supper
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In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local...
- 2015
Life Goes On
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1998
I Remember
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Dedicated from one great photographer to another, I Remember reenacts an afternoon spent with Alfred Steiglitz. Robert Frank plays Steiglitz, Frank...
- 2000
Fragments
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Fragments originated as a film installation that was projected onto a hanging screen as part of the 2000 exhibition Hold Still, Keep Going at the...
- 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...
- 1972
Rolling Stones Super 8 Footage
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Invited to shoot the cover for their 1972 album Exile on Main St., Robert Frank developed a relationship with the Rolling Stones that extended beyond...
- 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...
- 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...