Robert Frank Movies
- 1971
About Me: A Musical
About Me: A Musical51971HD
A Musical Set in New York City
- 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...
- 2002
Paper Route
Paper Route02002HD
In a simple, sensitive and entertaining video film, Robert Frank accompanies his local newspaper delivery boy during his morning round one chilly...
- 2015
Life Goes On
Life Goes On02015HD
- 1973
Sunseed
Sunseed01973HD
This documentary explores the growing American interest in the 1970s in Eastern religions and philosophy. The teachings and lifestyles of ten...
- 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...
- 2005
Sanyu
Sanyu02005HD
Sanyu (1901-1964), an important Chinese artist, was a friend of Robert Frank's who died in anonymity in Paris. In this film portrait, Frank creates a...
- 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...
- 1970
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–200601970HD
Super 8, 16mm film, and video transferred to HD video (six-channel projection, color and black and white, sound). Like many artists, Frank kept...
- 1970
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage: New York 1971
Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage: New York 197101970HD
After Robert Frank’s death in 2019, film canisters and video tapes were discovered in storage places, containing footage of Frank’s...
- 1972
This Is a Film About
This Is a Film About01972HD
In the early 1970s Robert Frank and the Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka led a workshop at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where students...
- 1975
Keep Busy
Keep Busy01975HD
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...
- 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...
- 1969
Life-Raft Earth
Life-Raft Earth01969HD
Liferaft Earth opens with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: "Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...