Robert Frank Movies
- 1996
The Present
The Present4.61996HD
Simple objects, photographs, and events prompt Frank to self-conscious rumination. From his homes in New York and Nova Scotia and on visits to...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1999
Second Century
Second Century51999HD
A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 1994
Moving Pictures
Moving Pictures01994HD
"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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2015
Life Goes On
Life Goes On02015HD
- 2022
June and Robert Kara and Me
June and Robert Kara and Me02022HD
"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....
- 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,...
- 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...
- 2009
Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age
Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age12009HD
Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and...
- 1958
Provincetown
Provincetown01958HD
Robert Frank’s unfinished first film offers a sense of his freewheeling style, an important aspect of his turn from photography to cinema, and...
- 1970
Untitled 1971
Untitled 197101970HD
Billboards and American flags and pinball machines, empty corridors and bustling classrooms, the clowning faces of the students at Reed...
- 2008
Tunnel
Tunnel02008HD
Commissioned for an event commemorating the ongoing construction of a 21-mile tunnel through the Swiss Alps, Robert Frank’s experimental short...
- 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...