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Don't Blink: Robert Frank

70 %|Apr 13, 2017|Documentary

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.

Featured Crew

Laura Israel
Director
Alex Bingham
Editor
Melinda Shopsin
Producer
Edward Lachman
Director of Photography
Lisa Rinzler
Director of Photography
Laura Israel
Producer
Ruth Waldburger
Executive Producer
Eugene Jarecki
Executive Producer

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Cast

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Sid Kaplan
Self - Darkroom printer
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William S. Burroughs
Self (archive footage)
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Robert Downey Sr.
Self (archive footage)
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Pablo Frank
Self (archive footage)
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Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
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Robert Golka
Self (archive footage)