Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton would later serve as a cinematographer on Gardner’s 1981 documentary Deep Hearts, among others). Reality’s Invisible could be described as a portrait of the Carpenter Center, yet it is a portrait of an extremely idiosyncratic and distinctive sort. Fulton moves us through the concrete space of the Center’s Le Corbusier-designed building—the only structure by the architect in North America—but, more centrally, presents us footage of students making and discussing their work alongside figures like Gardner, theorist Rudolf Arnheim, artist Stan Vanderbeek, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and graphic designer Toshi Katayama.
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Rudolf Arnheim
Self
Stan Brakhage
Self
Known for
Prelude: Dog Star Man
Cannibal! The Musical
Robert E Fulton
Robert Fulton
Self (voice)
Also in
Running Shadow I
Swimming Stone
Robert Gardner
Self
Alfred Guzzetti
Self
Toshi Katayama
Self
Also in
Piggyback Ghost
Song of Baseball Enthusiasts
Richard P. Rogers
Self
Stan VanDerBeek
Self
Also in
Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
Richard Leacock
Self
Also in
Working Girls
Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock
Robert Fulton Director
United States release April 19, 1972 · Produced in United States
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · April 19, 1972
Limited theatrical · Carpenter Center for Visual Arts
United States
September 10, 2015 · Limited theatrical · Carpenter Center for Visual Arts
November 10, 2015 · Limited theatrical · Light Industry
March 16, 2017 · Limited theatrical · Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
March 24, 2018 · Limited theatrical · Ann Arbor Film Festival
France
May 20, 2015 · Limited theatrical · Centre Georges Pompidou à Paris
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