Robert Frank Movies

  • 2005
    Sanyu

    Sanyu

    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...

    Sanyu
  • 2017
    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    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...

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
  • 2024
    Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films

    Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films

    Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films

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    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...

    Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films
  • 1982
    Contemporary Photography in America

    Contemporary Photography in America

    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,...

    Contemporary Photography in America
  • 2004
    Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank

    Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank

    Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank

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    A documentary on the photographer Robert Frank.

    Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank
  • 1994
    Moving Pictures

    Moving Pictures

    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...

    Moving Pictures
  • 2006
    Robert Frank Films

    Robert Frank Films

    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.

    Robert Frank Films
  • 1998
    I Remember

    I Remember

    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...

    I Remember
  • 1972
    Food

    Food

    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...

    Food
  • 1985
    Home Improvements

    Home Improvements

    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...

    Home Improvements
  • 1989
    Hunter

    Hunter

    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...

    Hunter
  • 1972
    About Us

    About Us

    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,...

    About Us
  • 2022
    June and Robert Kara and Me

    June and Robert Kara and Me

    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....

    June and Robert Kara and Me
  • 2004
    True Story

    True Story

    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...

    True Story
  • 2024
    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006

    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006

    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...

    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006
  • 1999
    Second Century

    Second Century

    Second Century

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    A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.

    Second Century
  • 1958
    Provincetown

    Provincetown

    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...

    Provincetown
  • 1959
    Pull My Daisy Production Footage

    Pull My Daisy Production Footage

    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...

    Pull My Daisy Production Footage
  • 1996
    Summer Cannibals

    Summer Cannibals

    Summer Cannibals

    01996HD

    In this punkish, puckish music video for a song from Patti Smith’s 1996 album Gone Again, Frank borrows Catholic signifiers from past films...

    Summer Cannibals
  • 1970
    Untitled 1971

    Untitled 1971

    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...

    Untitled 1971