15° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Tribute To Robert Kramer

SERIES OF VIDEOLETTERS: STEVE DWOSKIN / ROBERT KRAMER

SERIES OF VIDEOLETTERS: STEVE DWOSKIN / ROBERT KRAMER
by Robert Kramer, Steve Dwoskin
Country: France, UK
Year: 1991
Duration:


"The videoletters to Steve that was great. I don't remember how we started to do it. It was in the shadow of the Berlin film. I like this idea of shooting in the camera. All my letters are shot en direct. What you see is what was shot. The sound is in that period of time. Both of us like it very much. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about the letter, and where to start and how to do it. I would plan this whole thing out. There's a lot of that feeling which does merge film and performance. I like the tension that's in that situation and try and work it all out physically. It's another way of thinking about mise en scène" (Robert Kramer).

Biography

film director

Steve Dwoskin

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 He has written two unpublished novels, numerous poems, plays and short stories.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

Tra il febbraio e il giugno del 1991 Robert Kramer e Steve Dwoskin si sono scambiati diverse videolettere (quattro di Kramer, tre di Dwoskin) realizzate in Hi8. Quelle di Robert Kramer, intitolate Hi, Steve le prime tre e Robert to Steve la quarta, sono datate rispettivamente 18 febbraio (durata: 15'), 23 febbraio (19'), 1 aprile (11), 5 giugno (2V). Le tre di Dwoskin, intitolate Dear Robert sono datate 28 febbraio (13'9), 713 marzo (20'), aprilegiugno (23).
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