The Complete Film Works, 3 DVDs. Vol.4-6

Even though Robert Frank was already a renowned photographer when he started working as a film maker at the end§of the 1950s, he remained a well-kept secret within the film community for almost four decades. The Complete Film§Works fills a long overdue gap by presenting every one of Frank s more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics§of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 60s.§Life Dances On (1980), 32 minutes§Home Improvements (1985), 24 minutes§Energy and How to Get It (1981), 30 minutes§This Song for Jack (1983), 27 minutes§Ginsberg Corso Reading (1984), 17 minutes§Corso Reading (1987), 15 minutes§Hunter (1989), 37 minutes§C est vrai (One Hour) (1990), 60 minutes§Last Supper (1992), 50 minutes§Run / New Order (1989), 3 minutes§Robert Frank was born in Zurich in 1924 and immigrated 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 distinct new art form in the photo-book, and his experimental§film Pull My Daisy (1959). Frank s other important projects include the books Black White and Things§(1952) and The Lines of My Hand (1972), as well as the film Cocksucker Blues (1972) for the Rolling Stones. He§divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.