Event Info
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank: Laura Israel (Director), Melinda Shopsin (Producer)
“Be curious. Stand up. Keep your eyes open. Don’t blink.” – Robert Frank...
6:15pm
Artists
Melinda Shopsin (Producer)
Event Description
“Be curious. Stand up. Keep your eyes open. Don’t blink.” – Robert Frank
Laura Israel’s film provides a vivid sense of the legendary photographer Robert Frank while delivering a fulsome account of his life, work and associations. Kenneth Turan of the LA Times writes, "Rather than being a film about an artist, it's an attempt to show us what it's like to actually be an artist." The music, the pacing, the subject, it is all of a piece and Israel has created a work that’s alive and throbs with the time.
An eclectic bohemian, Frank captured and translated an important part of the city’s cultural life. He was friends with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who appeared in his 1959 film, Pull My Daisy. Mr. Frank had the good fortune to practice his art when minds were open, and used his genius and discipline to turn his curiosity into a vital and formidable body of work (Christie’s recently auctioned one photograph for $550,000).
And of course you shouldn’t do a documentary of an artist without a great cinematographer and here the Oscar-nominated Ed Lachman steps in — elucidating a career that violated aesthetic and cultural boundaries from the artist’s cluttered spaces.
Venue
3130 Tillicum Road
Open / Operational
In-Person Event
Tue. February 7th 2017 + Add to Calendar
Silvercity Victoria
