CinemaOSMovie · 2015 · 1h 22m

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

70%(14)IMDbDocumentary

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.

Directed byLaura Israel

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 22m
Language
EN
Released
November 19, 2015

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

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

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Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring
Robert Frank

Robert Frank

Self

June Leaf

Self

Sid Kaplan

Self - Darkroom printer

William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

Self (archive footage)

Robert Downey Sr.

Robert Downey Sr.

Self (archive footage)

Pablo Frank

Self (archive footage)

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Self (archive footage)

Robert Golka

Self (archive footage)

Creative team
Directed by
Laura Israel
Produced by
Melinda Shopsin
Laura Israel

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