Robert Frank Movies

  • 1980
    Life Dances On...

    Life Dances On...

    Life Dances On...

    01980HD

    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...

    Life Dances On...
  • 2000
    Fragments

    Fragments

    Fragments

    02000HD

    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...

    Fragments
  • 1958
    Provincetown

    Provincetown

    Provincetown

    01958HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age

    Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age

    Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age

    12009HD

    Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and...

    Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age
  • 1998
    I Remember

    I Remember

    I Remember

    01998HD

    Dedicated from one great photographer to another, I Remember reenacts an afternoon spent with Alfred Steiglitz. Robert Frank plays Steiglitz, Frank...

    I Remember
  • 1996
    The Present

    The Present

    The Present

    4.61996HD

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

    The Present
  • 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
  • 2002
    Paper Route

    Paper Route

    Paper Route

    02002HD

    In a simple, sensitive and entertaining video film, Robert Frank accompanies his local newspaper delivery boy during his morning round one chilly...

    Paper Route
  • 1971
    Conversations in Vermont

    Conversations in Vermont

    Conversations in Vermont

    71971HD

    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
  • 1989
    Hunter

    Hunter

    Hunter

    01989HD

    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...

    Hunter
  • 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
  • 1972
    This Is a Film About

    This Is a Film About

    This Is a Film About

    01972HD

    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...

    This Is a Film About
  • 1959
    Pull My Daisy Production Footage

    Pull My Daisy Production Footage

    Pull My Daisy Production Footage

    01959HD

    Shot in Alfred Leslie’s Bowery loft on Fourth Avenue and 12th Street, this silent production footage belies the long-held belief that Pull My...

    Pull My Daisy Production Footage