Don't Blink: Robert Frank

Don't Blink: Robert Frank

82 mins | Documentary | April 13, 2017

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.

Don't Blink: Robert Frank

82 mins | Documentary | April 13, 2017

Don't Blink: Robert Frank
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers
Original title Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Directors Laura Israel
Writers

Cast

Robert Frank

as Self

June Leaf

as Self

Sid Kaplan

as Self - Darkroom printer

William S. Burroughs

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Downey Sr.

as Self (archive footage)

Pablo Frank

as Self (archive footage)

Allen Ginsberg

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Golka

as Self (archive footage)