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.
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Cast
23 people
Robert Frank
Self
Also in
The Present
Hit Parade
June Leaf
Self
Also in
The Present
Home Improvements
Laura Israel
Lukas Fitze
Lisa Rinzler
Sid Kaplan
Self - Darkroom printer
Edward Lachman
Self (as Ed Lachman)
Also in
Sluizer Speaks
Far from Heaven: "Making of"
Melinda Shopsin
William S. Burroughs
Self (archive footage)
Known for
Drugstore Cowboy
Joy Division
Eugene Jarecki
Robert Downey Sr.
Self (archive footage)
Known for
Boogie Nights
To Live and Die in L.A.
Roni Jesselson
Laura Israel Director · Lisa Rinzler Cinematographer Edward Lachman Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $77K · United States release October 3, 2015 · Produced in United States, Canada, France
Box office
Worldwide gross
$76,541
Production
United States · Canada · France
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 3, 2015
Premiere · New York Film Festival
Germany
April 13, 2017 · Theatrical
Netherlands
November 19, 2015 · Theatrical · Stedelijk Museum X International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
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