Robert Kramer

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer...

An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the...

Machover and Fruchter's intimate documentary follows the trials and tribulations of a group of Students for a Democratic Society militants in their...

An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass murderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the...

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...

A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds...

During a robbery that goes wrong, Valentin Tralande kills his accomplices and bank customers.

This last testimony of Robert Kramer (1939-1999) is a moving documentary with the independent American film director, in which he speaks of his...

Lucien Lourmel, in his fifties, lonely and tired, runs the nightclub "P'tit Bleu", where young talent performs. He is a member of a mafia-like...

“I talk about my 20 years of work with the filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in 1999. It is an account of the gestures and practices of this...

The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who...

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and...

A very rare film "manifesto" by Mekas made in 1968 in New York, in the activist spirit of positive revolutionary change; his source for inspiration...

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

The French Ministry of Culture commissioned films on the cultural decade "en chantiers". Robert Kramer makes one of the six short films that...

On the occasion of the 7th meetings of Digne, Pour un autre cinéma, organized by Pierre Queyrel and which presented a retrospective of...

Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30...

A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the...

The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters...

Lyrical video letter by Robert Kramer to his friend Paul McIsaac captured during the editing of “Route One/USA”.

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their...

In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man...

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer...

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...

A portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting back and...

Route One is the first major U.S. highway. 5000 km along the Atlantic coast, from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. Doc, a physician who...

A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to...

A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to...

The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters...

An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the...

Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the antifascist, anti-imperialist...

An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.

In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature...

In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature...

In this film from late in his career, Kramer returns to Hanoi after nearly 25 years to re-envision the city’s struggle through an uncertain and...

In this film from late in his career, Kramer returns to Hanoi after nearly 25 years to re-envision the city’s struggle through an uncertain and...

A troubled antiwar activist plans to assassinate the President of the United States. His resolve forces others in a fragmented and disillusioned...

In 1990, Robert Kramer receives a grant from the Ford Foundation. He goes to Berlin for 6 months, where he makes an hour long single video shot (for...

In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature...

A young couple who are amateur roller-skating buffs practice their chosen avocation at a Parisian roller rink. Their hopes rise with a chance to go...

During the Vietnam War, a young revolutionary, isolated with his lover in a country house, struggles to comprehend his self-inflicted inactivity and...

During the Vietnam War, a young revolutionary, isolated with his lover in a country house, struggles to comprehend his self-inflicted inactivity and...

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters...

During the Vietnam War, a young revolutionary, isolated with his lover in a country house, struggles to comprehend his self-inflicted inactivity and...

During the Vietnam War, a young revolutionary, isolated with his lover in a country house, struggles to comprehend his self-inflicted inactivity and...

The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in France in 1999. Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of...

This 1965 documentary portrait of a civil war is today a remarkable time capsule of Venezuelan political and social history, and valuable background...

I saw this happen : Raye left home. Why ? To see what was waiting for her out there. Europe ! It didn't matter where she went, the Mediterranean...

I saw this happen : Raye left home. Why ? To see what was waiting for her out there. Europe ! It didn't matter where she went, the Mediterranean...

I saw this happen : Raye left home. Why ? To see what was waiting for her out there. Europe ! It didn't matter where she went, the Mediterranean...

An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.

Shot in Vietnam in the summer of 1969, this documentary creates a vivid portrait of the countryside and ways of life during the war.

The French Ministry of Culture commissioned films on the cultural decade "en chantiers". Robert Kramer makes one of the six short films that...

The French Ministry of Culture commissioned films on the cultural decade "en chantiers". Robert Kramer makes one of the six short films that...

A house in the countryside. The trees, the cliff, the fire. A prehistoric image. Erika in the garden. Keja in the house. The river. A road tunnel....

A house in the countryside. The trees, the cliff, the fire. A prehistoric image. Erika in the garden. Keja in the house. The river. A road tunnel....

A troubled antiwar activist plans to assassinate the President of the United States. His resolve forces others in a fragmented and disillusioned...

A troubled antiwar activist plans to assassinate the President of the United States. His resolve forces others in a fragmented and disillusioned...

Route One is the first major U.S. highway. 5000 km along the Atlantic coast, from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. Doc, a physician who...

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...

A portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting back and...

A portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting back and...

A portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting back and...

"Hi Steve" and "Dear Robert" exchanged between two filmmakers: Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin. "The Videoletters strip away the formalities that...

Lyrical video letter by Robert Kramer to his friend Paul McIsaac captured during the editing of “Route One/USA”.

Lyrical video letter by Robert Kramer to his friend Paul McIsaac captured during the editing of “Route One/USA”.

Lyrical video letter by Robert Kramer to his friend Paul McIsaac captured during the editing of “Route One/USA”.

[...] "History has made Vietnam one of my favourite places... The links that you establish with people and places very often seem totally unexpected....

[...] "History has made Vietnam one of my favourite places... The links that you establish with people and places very often seem totally unexpected....

[...] "History has made Vietnam one of my favourite places... The links that you establish with people and places very often seem totally unexpected....

A film about birth Robert Kramer directed for TV.

A film about birth Robert Kramer directed for TV.

A film about birth Robert Kramer directed for TV.

A film about birth Robert Kramer directed for TV.

A woman is approached by a man. Frightened, she runs away. A film on the physiological mechanisms of fear.

A director accepted to inquire about a mysterious coat stolen in Peru during the XVIth century. Who wove this coat? Why do those that touch it...

Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the antifascist, anti-imperialist...

Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the antifascist, anti-imperialist...

An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the...

A short film commissioned by the Société Lyonnaise de Banque to present its business plan to the staff.

A short film commissioned by the Société Lyonnaise de Banque to present its business plan to the staff.

In DES GRAINES DANS LE VENT, the handful of British workers tramping towards Amsterdam to fight for their rights in the “European March Against...

In DES GRAINES DANS LE VENT, the handful of British workers tramping towards Amsterdam to fight for their rights in the “European March Against...

In DES GRAINES DANS LE VENT, the handful of British workers tramping towards Amsterdam to fight for their rights in the “European March Against...

MAQUETTE is an excursion into the world of dance and other cultural activities in Toulon: “There is a film that I didn’t complete. I shot...

MAQUETTE is an excursion into the world of dance and other cultural activities in Toulon: “There is a film that I didn’t complete. I shot...

MAQUETTE is an excursion into the world of dance and other cultural activities in Toulon: “There is a film that I didn’t complete. I shot...

MAQUETTE is an excursion into the world of dance and other cultural activities in Toulon: “There is a film that I didn’t complete. I shot...

The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in France in 1999. Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of...