15° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Tribute To Robert Kramer
LA ROUE: GREG LEMOND / ANDREW HAMPSTEN
Country: France
Year: 1993
Duration: 7'+7'
The two films are part of the television series La Roue (Wheel), curated by Claire Doutriaux. Fifteen documentary filmmakers shot sevenminute film portraits of twenty four cyclists. They were filmed right before the 1993 season at home and at their daily lives. The portrait of Lemond was filmed in Santa Rosa, California, in January, 1993. That same month, Hampsten was filmed in Boulder, Colorado.
"I was surprised by the pleasure of the openness and the intelligence of those two athletes, both of whom know themselves quite well and have a real point of view on what they're doing and why they think they're doing it. Without that contact, 1 would have thought differently about the sport and about the people. The experience of parachuting into the United States after having been here continuously for a long time, and suddenly being confronted with that particular kind of almost naive American openness and desire to do it, is important. It's great to remember how different we all are" (Robert Kramer).
Biography
film director
Robert Kramer
Robert Kramer was born in New York in 1940. He studied philosophy and Western European History at Swarthmore College and Stanford University. He has written two unpublished novels, numerous poems, plays and short stories. In 1965 he organized the Newark Community Project (N-CUP) in an African-American community. He worked as a reporter in Latin America for various American publications. He worked with Peter Gessner on a film on the guerrilla movement in Venezuela. In 1966 he created Alpha 60 with Norman Fruchter, Robert Machover, Peter Gessner, and Mike Robinson. It was a sort of free cooperative of director-producers who later were channelled into the Newsreel movement, which Kramer helped found and organize. Kramer's Newsreel experience lasted from 1967 to 1971, during which about sixty short- and middle-length films were produced - documentaries, films of struggle, and agitation films. In the early 1980's he moved to Europe, and he currently is living and working in Paris.
FILMOGRAFIA
Regista/Director: Faln [Faln, 1965, In the Country [In campagna, 1966], The Edge [Il margine, 1967], Ice (id., 1969), People's War [La guerra del popolo, 19691, Milestones [Pietre miliari, 1975], Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (Scene di lotta di classe dal Portogallo, 1979), Guns (Fucili, 1980), Un grand jour (en France) - Naissance [A Great Day (in France) - Birth / Un gran giorno (in Francia) - Nascita, 1981], A toute allure [As fast as you can / A tutta velocità, 1982], La peur [The fear / La paura, 1983], Sarkis al Woodrow Wilson - Musée d'Art Moderne [Sarkis at Woodrow Wilson - Museum of Modern Art / Sarkis at Woodrow Wilson - Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1984], Notre nazi / Unser Nazi [Our Nazi / Il nostro nazista, 1984], Diesel [Diesel, 1985], Un plan d'enfer [A Plan of Hell / Un piano infernale, 1986], X-Country [X-Country, 1987, inedito], Doc's Kingdom [Il regno di Doc, 1987], Route One / USA [Route One / USA, 1989], Dear Doc [Caro Doc, 1989, inedito], Maquette (brouillon de film) [Scale model (Draft of a Film) / Modello (Abbozzo di film) , 1990, inedito, incompiuto], Berlin 10/90 [Berlin 10/90, 1990-91], Sous le vent [Leeward / Sottovento, 1991], Series of Videoletters: Steve Dwoskin / Robert Kramer [Serie di videolettere: Steve Dwoskin / Robert Kramer, 1991, inedito], Ecrire contre l'oubli: pour Fidel Intrusca Fernández, Pérou [Writing against forgetting: for Fidel Intrusca Fernández, Peru / Scrivere contro l'oblio: per Fidel Intrusca Fernández, Perù, 1991], Point de départ / Starting Place (Starting Place / t.l. Punto di partenza, 1993), La Roue: Greg Lemond - Andrew Hampsten [The Wheel: Greg Lemond - Andrew Hampsten / La ruota: Greg Lemond - Andrew Hampsten, 1993], Walk the Walk [Walk the Walk, 1996], Le Manteau / Der Mantel [The Mantle / Il manto, 1996], Ghosts of Electricity [Fantasmi dell'elettricità, 1997].
Attore, sceneggiatore / Actor, screenwriter: Gestos e fragmentos (Gestures and Fragments / Gesti e frammenti, 1980-82) di Alberto Seixas Santos, Der Stand der Dinge (The State of Things, Lo stato delle cose, 1981) di Wim Wenders.
Cast
& Credits
Director and director of photography: Robert Kramer.
Editor: JeanMichel Kuess.
Mixage: Philippe Kursawa.
Produttore delegato: Xavier Carniaux.
Direttore di Production company: Philippe Le More.
Assistente alla Production company: Isabelle Coulomb.
Production company: Xavier Carniaux, Thierry Garrel per AMIP, La Sept ARTE.
Editor: JeanMichel Kuess.
Mixage: Philippe Kursawa.
Produttore delegato: Xavier Carniaux.
Direttore di Production company: Philippe Le More.
Assistente alla Production company: Isabelle Coulomb.
Production company: Xavier Carniaux, Thierry Garrel per AMIP, La Sept ARTE.