Posts Tagged ‘Robert Kramer’
Essay
Robert Kramer: Cinema/Politics/Community
By David Fresko
With fellow travelers or on his own, the maverick filmmaker traversed national and formal boundaries to bring his radical politics to the screen.
Past Screening
Robert Kramer Retrospective:
Milestones
Directed by Robert Kramer & John Douglas
After a six-year hiatus, Kramer returned to filmmaking with Douglas to fashion this docufiction epic examining the ongoing lives of over 50 people who had, in the previous decade, dedicated themselves to the Movement.
Last available Nov 11 2020
Past Screening
Robert Kramer Retrospective:
Troublemakers
Directed by Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover
Early Kramer collaborators Fruchter and Machover chronicle Kramer’s 1965 political efforts to organize Black and impoverished urban communities in this landmark doc. Newly restored!
Last available Nov 4 2020
Past Screening
Robert Kramer Retrospective:
FALN & The People’s War
Directed by Robert Kramer & Peter Gessner /
Newsreel #43: Robert Kramer, John Douglas & Norm Fruchter
FALN is an examination of the guerrilla struggle in ’60s Venezuela, and The People’s War an intimate anti-war film shot in Vietnam.
Last available Oct 21 2020
Past Screening
Robert Kramer Retrospective:
The Edge
Directed by Robert Kramer
Kramer’s second feature focuses on the intersecting, isolating lives of 16 members of a militant urban cell who experience suffocating isolation.
Last available Oct 28 2020
Past Screening
Robert Kramer Retrospective:
In the Country
Directed by Robert Kramer
A couple escape from NYC to a big house in Westchester in Kramer’s first fiction film, a study in solitude, self-obsession, and bourgeois disaffection.
Last available Oct 16 2020
Past Screening
Robert Kramer Retrospective: Ice
Directed by Robert Kramer
Our Kramer series begins with one of the filmmaker’s best-known works, which as Amos Vogel says, ”deals with regional offensives, assassinations, terror and counter-terror, dedication, weariness, betrayal.”
Last available Oct 2 2020
