Don't Blink - Robert Frank

Apr 13 2017 N/A 1h 22m
Biography, Documentary, History

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 of territory he's covered, from The Americans in 1958 up to the present, is intimately registered in his now-formidable body of artistic gestures. From the early '90s on, Frank has been making his films and videos with the brilliant editor Laura Israel, who has helped him to keep things homemade and preserve the illuminating spark of first contact between camera and people/places. Don't Blink is Israel's like-minded portrait of her friend and collaborator, a lively rummage sale of images and sounds and recollected passages and unfathomable losses and friendships that leaves us a fast and fleeting imprint of the life of the Swiss-born man who reinvented himself the American way, and is still standing on ground of his own making at the age of 90.

Plot

Robert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.

Written by

Laura Israel, Melinda Shopsin

Directed by

Laura Israel

Cast

Robert Frank, Sid Kaplan, June Leaf

Crew

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Production Countries

France, United States of America, Canada

Languages

English

Awards

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Trailers
Don't Blink - Robert Frank Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Documentary HD
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