Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--Short Films by Robert Frank

Works to be screened: "Pull My Daisy" (1959, 28 min, digital) / "OK End Here" (1963, 30 min, digital) / "Flamingo" (1996, 5 min, digital) / "I Remember" (1998, 7 min, digital) / "Tunnel" (2008, 4 min, digital) // [Film descriptions available here: https://www.mfah.org/films/robert-frank-collection/.] // About the filmmaker/artist: Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1924 and emigrated to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book "The Americans," first published in 1959, which gave rise to a distinctly new form of photobooks, and his experimental film "Pull My Daisy," made in 1959. It is less known that at the very moment he became a star-the end of the 1950s-Frank chose to abandon still photography for more than ten years in order to immerse himself in filmmaking. He did return to photography in the 1970s, but his contribution for filmmaking deserves examination.