Don't Blink - Robert Frank (2015)
Don't Blink - Robert Frank (2015)
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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Cast

Robert Frank Robert Frank As: Self
June Leaf June Leaf As: Self
Sid Kaplan Sid Kaplan As: Self - Darkroom printer
William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs As: Self (archive footage)
Robert Downey Sr. Robert Downey Sr. As: Self (archive footage)
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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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Genres: Documentary

Language: English

Release Date: 19 November 2015

Country: US, CA, FR

Runtime: 82m

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Cast

Robert Frank

Robert Frank

Self

June Leaf

June Leaf

Self

Sid Kaplan

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

Pablo Frank

Self (archive footage)

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Self (archive footage)

Robert Golka

Robert Golka

Self (archive footage)

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Writing Credits

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Production Crew

Melinda Shopsin

Melinda Shopsin

Producer

Laura Israel

Laura Israel

Producer

Eugene Jarecki

Eugene Jarecki

Executive Producer

Ruth Waldburger

Ruth Waldburger

Executive Producer

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Sound

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Visual Effects

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Camera

Edward Lachman

Edward Lachman

Director of Photography

Lisa Rinzler

Lisa Rinzler

Director of Photography

Lighting

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Art Department

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Other Crew

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