Robert Frank Movies

  • 1982
    Contemporary Photography in America

    Contemporary Photography in America

    Contemporary Photography in America

    01982HD

    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
  • 1971
    Conversations in Vermont

    Conversations in Vermont

    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...

    Conversations in Vermont
  • 1969
    Life-Raft Earth

    Life-Raft Earth

    Life-Raft Earth

    01969HD

    Liferaft Earth opens with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: "Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population...

    Life-Raft Earth
  • 2024
    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006

    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006

    Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006

    02024HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2008
    Fernando

    Fernando

    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...

    Fernando
  • 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
  • 1980
    Project Tesla

    Project Tesla

    Project Tesla

    01980HD

    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...

    Project Tesla
  • 1996
    Flamingo

    Flamingo

    Flamingo

    01996HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2022
    June and Robert Kara and Me

    June and Robert Kara and Me

    June and Robert Kara and Me

    02022HD

    "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
  • 1963
    O.K. End Here

    O.K. End Here

    O.K. End Here

    5.51963HD

    O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots...

    O.K. End Here
  • 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