Robert Frank Movies
- 2015

Life Goes On
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- 1996

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...
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- 2006

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.
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- 1972

About Us
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In Fall of 1971, artist Robert Frank came to Rochester, NY to conduct a course on filmmaking at the recently established alternative art school,...
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- 2002

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...
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- 1970

Untitled 1971
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Billboards and American flags and pinball machines, empty corridors and bustling classrooms, the clowning faces of the students at Reed...
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- 1972

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...
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- 2008

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...
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- 2008

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...
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- 2004

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...
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- 1989

Run
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Jonathan Demme wrote that “Robert Frank’s very short film Run, set to New Order’s tune of the same name, remains one of the most...
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- 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...
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- 1980

Life Dances On...
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Life Dances On is Robert Frank’s most personal and emotional work because it deals directly with his family and close friends. The film is...
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- 1996

The Present
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Simple objects, photographs, and events prompt Frank to self-conscious rumination. From his homes in New York and Nova Scotia and on visits to...
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- 1969

Life-Raft Earth
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Liferaft Earth opens with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: "Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population...
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- 1971

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...
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