FRANK PGM 3
by Robert Frank
CONVERSATIONS IN VERMONT
(1969, 26 minutes, 16mm, b&w)
Frank visits his teenaged children Pablo and Andrea at their alternative school in Vermont and interviews them about their feelings, their upbringing and what it was like to grow up in the bohemian world of their parents.
LIFE-RAFT EARTH (1969, 37 minutes, 16mm)
Whole Earth Catalog editor Stewart Brand and his friend Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) asked Frank to document ‘The Hunger show’, a week-long fast staged by the Portola Institute in California. This was a ‘happening’ designed to make the problem of world hunger and malnutrition a personal matter for participants and observers. The film records the event, which took place from October 11 to October 18, 1969, in a parking lot in Hayward.
ABOUT ME: A MUSICAL (1971, 35 minutes, 16mm, b&w)
Although planned as a cinematic study of indigenous American music, Frank announces on the soundtrack that he instead wants to make a film about himself. Actress Lynn Reyner portrays Frank in this intriguing and symbolic self-examination of the filmmaker’s contribution as a photographer and the personal toll his work has taken.
Total running time: ca. 100 minutes.
(1969, 26 minutes, 16mm, b&w)
Frank visits his teenaged children Pablo and Andrea at their alternative school in Vermont and interviews them about their feelings, their upbringing and what it was like to grow up in the bohemian world of their parents.
LIFE-RAFT EARTH (1969, 37 minutes, 16mm)
Whole Earth Catalog editor Stewart Brand and his friend Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) asked Frank to document ‘The Hunger show’, a week-long fast staged by the Portola Institute in California. This was a ‘happening’ designed to make the problem of world hunger and malnutrition a personal matter for participants and observers. The film records the event, which took place from October 11 to October 18, 1969, in a parking lot in Hayward.
ABOUT ME: A MUSICAL (1971, 35 minutes, 16mm, b&w)
Although planned as a cinematic study of indigenous American music, Frank announces on the soundtrack that he instead wants to make a film about himself. Actress Lynn Reyner portrays Frank in this intriguing and symbolic self-examination of the filmmaker’s contribution as a photographer and the personal toll his work has taken.
Total running time: ca. 100 minutes.
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