Robert Frank Movies
- 1994
Moving Pictures
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"Today memory creeps along the wall at Seven Bleecker. In the back of my eyes, longings and obsessions, Outside someone is yelling Robert! I love New...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2000
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
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Full Blossom: The Life Of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom takes a look at Blossom's work onscreen, as well as the man behind the camera, examining his...
- 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,...
- 1985
Home Improvements
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Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship...
- 1980
Life Dances On...
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Life Dances On is Robert Frank’s most personal and emotional work because it deals directly with his family and close friends. The film is...
- 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...
- 1982
Contemporary Photography in America
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The film of Michael Engler from the year 1982 showing the different methods of operation of photgraphers Harry Callahan, Mark Cohen, Robert Frank,...
- 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
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Liferaft Earth opens with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: "Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population...
- 1975
Keep Busy
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The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...
- 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...