Robert Frank Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 1969
    Me and My Brother

    Me and My Brother

    Me and My Brother

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    Julius Orlovsky, after spending years in a New York mental hospital, emerges catatonic and must rely on his brother Peter, who lives with poet Allen...

    Me and My Brother
  • 1961
    The Sin of Jesus

    The Sin of Jesus

    The Sin of Jesus

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    An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.

    The Sin of Jesus
  • 1983
    This Song for Jack

    This Song for Jack

    This Song for Jack

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    In 1982, Robert Frank was on hand at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to film the Jack Kerouac Conference, a 25th-anniversary commemoration...

    This Song for Jack
  • 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
  • 1996
    Flamingo

    Flamingo

    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...

    Flamingo
  • 2002
    Paper Route

    Paper Route

    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...

    Paper Route
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    Life Goes On

    Life Goes On

    Life Goes On

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    Life Goes On
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2000
    Fragments

    Fragments

    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...

    Fragments
  • 2008
    Tunnel

    Tunnel

    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...

    Tunnel
  • 1984
    Ginsberg/Corso Tapes

    Ginsberg/Corso Tapes

    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...

    Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
  • 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
  • 1996
    Summer Cannibals

    Summer Cannibals

    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...

    Summer Cannibals