Robert Frank Movies
- 1990
It’s Real
It’s Real5.81990HD
One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the street life of downtown Manhattan. Not only is...
- 1975
Keep Busy
Keep Busy01975HD
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...
- 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...
- 2024
Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films
Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films02024HD
An artist in his own right, Clark Winter captured the intimacy of his longtime friendships with Robert Frank and June Leaf in a series of videos shot...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 1999
Second Century
Second Century51999HD
A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 1989
Hunter
Hunter01989HD
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...
- 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....
- 2004
True Story
True Story02004HD
“Tell the truth and shame the devil”: Robert Frank had turned 80 when he set out to make True Story, repurposing still photographs, home...