Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 23
"Recalling Abbas Kiarostami in
the organic progression of a deceptively mundane, yet insightful and
life-affirming conversation between a driver and a passenger, video artist
Robert Frank accompaines his personable and disciplined local paper delivery man
on his morning paper route on a brisk winter day through the artist's bucolic
hometwon in Nova Scotia. Simple, compassionate, and engaging, the video is a
reverent and indelible portrait of a humble existence and vanishing way of life
that not only serves as the isolated residents' liberal source of information
about the world around them, but also their human connection to the the
metaphoric 'collective solut' of the rural community" (M.
McE).
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/Director: Robert Frank.