Robert Frank Movies

Commissioned for an event commemorating the ongoing construction of a 21-mile tunnel through the Swiss Alps, Robert Frank’s experimental short...

In this punkish, puckish music video for a song from Patti Smith’s 1996 album Gone Again, Frank borrows Catholic signifiers from past films...

Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.

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

"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....

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

After Robert Frank’s death in 2019, film canisters and video tapes were discovered in storage places, containing footage of Frank’s...

Scenes from the life of a quiet man and a smart woman. They carry the celebrated surnames Frank and Leaf, both of which were crucial to the 20th...

Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

Full Blossom: The Life Of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom takes a look at Blossom's work onscreen, as well as the man behind the camera, examining his...

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...

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...