Robert Frank Movies
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2015
Life Goes On
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...