Robert Nelson Movies

Shooting in 1966 without script, story, or any narrative preconception, Nelson and Wiley created a masterwork of ‘60s independent cinema. The...

"Nelson experiments with presenting his viewer with the two sides of every subject in a dense visual masterwork of stark superimpositions." (Mark...

“In their starkly minimal film, The Awful Backlash, directors Robert Nelson and William Allan, focus solely on a pair of hands as they begin to...

The first part of what was intended to be a three-part experimental travelog for Nelson’s home state of California, this film covers the...

A film by Robert Nelson

George visits underground filmmaker Robert Nelson in Milwaukee, and they brave the cold on Lake Michigan.

Hauling Toto Big is a dense and ecstatic work of fragmented narratives, dream states, chaos and serenity… a culmination of Nelson’s...

A film by Robert Nelson

A film by Robert Nelson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Recurrent themes of violence, sex and TV commercials. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

A chaotic film featuring the Grateful Dead. The songs that are included are Sitting on Top of the World, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Cold Rain...