Robert Frank Movies
- 2024
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–200602024HD
Super 8, 16mm film, and video transferred to HD video (six-channel projection, color and black and white, sound). Like many artists, Frank kept...
- 1972
About Us
About Us01972HD
In Fall of 1971, artist Robert Frank came to Rochester, NY to conduct a course on filmmaking at the recently established alternative art school,...
- 1972
Food
Food81972HD
This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food...
- 2000
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...
- 2004
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank62004HD
A documentary on the photographer Robert Frank.
- 2024
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage: New York 1971
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage: New York 197102024HD
After Robert Frank’s death in 2019, film canisters and video tapes were discovered in storage places, containing footage of Frank’s...
- 1982
Contemporary Photography in America
Contemporary Photography in America01982HD
The film of Michael Engler from the year 1982 showing the different methods of operation of photgraphers Harry Callahan, Mark Cohen, Robert Frank,...
- 1999
Second Century
Second Century51999HD
A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.
- 1983
This Song for Jack
This Song for Jack61983HD
In 1982, Robert Frank was on hand at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to film the Jack Kerouac Conference, a 25th-anniversary commemoration...
- 2006
Robert Frank Films
Robert Frank Films02006HD
Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.
- 1963
O.K. End Here
O.K. End Here5.51963HD
O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots...
- 1980
Project Tesla
Project Tesla01980HD
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...
- 2008
Fernando
Fernando02008HD
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...
- 1996
Summer Cannibals
Summer Cannibals01996HD
In this punkish, puckish music video for a song from Patti Smith’s 1996 album Gone Again, Frank borrows Catholic signifiers from past films...
- 1984
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes01984HD
Longtime friends and frequent foils, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appeared onstage together countless times over the years, reading to audiences...
- 1971
Conversations in Vermont
Conversations in Vermont71971HD
Produced in 1969, this was Frank’s first autobiographical film, telling the story of a father’s relationship with his two teenaged...
- 1998
I Remember
I Remember01998HD
Dedicated from one great photographer to another, I Remember reenacts an afternoon spent with Alfred Steiglitz. Robert Frank plays Steiglitz, Frank...
- 1975
Keep Busy
Keep Busy01975HD
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...
- 1989
Hunter
Hunter01989HD
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...
- 2004
True Story
True Story02004HD
“Tell the truth and shame the devil”: Robert Frank had turned 80 when he set out to make True Story, repurposing still photographs, home...