Don't Blink - Robert Frank
Synopsis
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.
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Festival History
- Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2017 generic
- Berlin International Film Festival 2016 generic
- BFI London Film Festival 2016 generic
- Melbourne International Film Festival 2016 generic
- New York Film Festival 2015 generic
Releases & classifications
| Theatrical | Netherlands | November 19, 2015 |
| Theatrical | Germany | April 13, 2017 |
Full credits
| Director | Laura Israel |
| Cast | Robert Frank (Self), June Leaf (Self), Sid Kaplan (Self - Darkroom printer), William S. Burroughs (Self (archive footage)), Robert Downey Sr. (Self (archive footage)), Pablo Frank (Self (archive footage)), Allen Ginsberg (Self (archive footage)), Robert Golka (Self (archive footage)) |
| Producer | Laura Israel, Melinda Shopsin |
| Executive producer | Eugene Jarecki, Ruth Waldburger |
| Cinematography | Edward Lachman, Lisa Rinzler |
| Editing | Alex Bingham |
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