Film

Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006

2024 · 10m

You open the door and you go in and climb out the window and you see something else.

Super 8, 16mm film, and video transferred to HD video (six-channel projection, color and black and white, sound). Like many artists, Frank kept diaries and scrapbooks, which provide a window into his interior life. Similarly, the raw footage used in this installation sheds new light on Frank’s artistic process, stitched together by Israel and Bingham in a way that evokes his restless gaze and declamatory voice, at once comical and melancholy. He journeys between his homes in New York and Nova Scotia; the open roads of the United States and Canada; and urban landscapes, including those of Beirut, Cairo, Moscow, and his native Switzerland. Frank makes timeless the most fleeting of pleasures: a warm bath and a steaming tea kettle, a glimpse of his wife June Leaf in her studio, or the play of sunlight on his hand. — Museum of Modern Art

• Alex BinghamDirector
• Laura IsraelDirector
• Robert FrankDirector of Photography

Release date

September 15, 2024

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

10m