Robert Frank

A small film crew goes through several locations including Europe, New York and Mexico.

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

A documentary on the photographer Robert Frank.

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship...

The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount...

The film of Michael Engler from the year 1982 showing the different methods of operation of photgraphers Harry Callahan, Mark Cohen, Robert Frank,...

This fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour, their first return to the States since the tragedy at...

Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose...

A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker

Julius Orlovsky, after spending years in a New York mental hospital, emerges catatonic and must rely on his brother Peter, who lives with poet Allen...

An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.

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

Robert Frank diary/memory film.

The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...

O.K. End Here is Frank’s 1963 short film about inertia in a modern relationship. The film alternates between semidocumentary scenes and shots...

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

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

A Musical Set in New York City

Produced in 1969, this was Frank’s first autobiographical film, telling the story of a father’s relationship with his two teenaged...

Filmed in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fictional ideas. What began as a documentary film about...

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...

A one-hour trip down Manhattan's Lower east Side.

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in...

Video by filmmaker Robert Frank of Patti Smith's song Summer Cannibals

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

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

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...

In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local...

Julius Orlovsky, after spending years in a New York mental hospital, emerges catatonic and must rely on his brother Peter, who lives with poet Allen...

Julius Orlovsky, after spending years in a New York mental hospital, emerges catatonic and must rely on his brother Peter, who lives with poet Allen...

The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own...

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship...

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship...

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship...

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship...

In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local...

A one-hour trip down Manhattan's Lower east Side.

This documentary explores the growing American interest in the 1970s in Eastern religions and philosophy. The teachings and lifestyles of ten...

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...