Country: USA, Canada
Year: 1996
Duration: 24'
"Using the camera with intuition, being prepared to improvise. Keeping an eye on the moment. Inside and outside. The present" (Robert Frank).
Beading impromptus and minor incidents, Frank scrutinizes his surroundings, visits friends and surveys a lifetimes paraphernalia with a confiding air of casual distraction, in search of his subject. With unerring perspicacity for the telling implications of any given instant, this deceptively miscellaneus scrapbook of shifted evidence and shifted tenses is masterfully edited into meaningful shape. Embracing the out of reach and close at hand. The Present is a beautifully vital film of melancholy, laced with prophetic levity.
Biography
film director
Robert Frank
Robert Frank was born in 1924 to a Jewish family in Zurich. Following the outbreak of WWII, he took refuge in Switzerland, where he began working as a photographer. In 1947 he moved to New York and soon began working as a photographer for magazines like "Harper's Bazaar," "McCall's" and the "New York Times." After winning a Guggenheim scholarship in 1955, Frank began compiling a photographic documentary of American culture. The result is the collection called The Americans, which was published in 1958. He later dedicated himself to cinema, taking on the cause of avant-garde filmmaking.
FILMOGRAFIA
Pull My Daisy (1958), The Sin of Jesus (1961), O.K. End Here (1963), Me and My Brother (1969), Life-Raft Earth (1969), Conversations In Vermont (1971), About Me: A Musical (1971), Cocksucker Blues (1972), Keep Busy (1975), Life Dances On... (1980), Energy and How to Get It (1981), This Song for Jack (1983), Home Improvements (1985), Candy Mountain (1988), Run (1989), Hunter (1989), It's Real (1990), Last Supper (1992), Summer Cannibals (1996), The Present (1996), Sanyu (2000), Paper Rout (2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, interprete: Robert Frank.
Editor: Laura Israel.
Produzione e Foreign sales agent: Vega Film AG, Kraftstrasse 33, Postfach, 8044 Zürich, Switzerland, tel. +41-1-2526000, fax +41-1-2526635.
Editor: Laura Israel.
Produzione e Foreign sales agent: Vega Film AG, Kraftstrasse 33, Postfach, 8044 Zürich, Switzerland, tel. +41-1-2526000, fax +41-1-2526635.
