Robert Kramer
Robert Kramer was an American independent filmmaker born in New York in 1939. He was extremely politically active in the 1960s, taking part in the radical left-wing movements against the Vietnam War and for the emancipation of minorities. During the March on the Pentagon protest in 1967, he met other filmmakers, and together they founded the Newsreel collective. He gave us some of that generation’s iconic movies including Ice and Milestones. He emigrated to France in the early 1980s, where he lived until his death in 1999.
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Videoletters
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Between February and June 1991, filmmakers Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin exchanged several video letters (four by Kramer, three by Dwoskin) shot in Hi-8. These _Videoletters_ freed them from the formalities that burdened their work and reflections at the time. Through this exchange, they began to learn and observe anew.
Ice
*Ice* is an innovative independent thriller, shot in New York City, which centers on a revolutionary group plotting to attack a fascistic political regime. Using a fictitious war with Mexico as an allegory for the conflict in Vietnam, Kramer uses a documentary style to dramatize the inner workings, disputes and tensions within the group itself as they plan guerrilla attacks against the American...
Milestones
_Milestones_ is the multifaceted portrait of the generation that sought radical solutions to America's problems in the 1960s and 1970s. It's a film about the lifestyle, attitude, and ideas of over fifty individuals, ranging from the snowy mountains of Vermont to the Hopi caves, and through the grime and energy of New York. Mirroring this, omnipresent, is the rumbling past of the United States; ...
Route One/USA
Après dix ans d'exil volontaire, Robert Kramer, chantre de la contre-culture américaine et figure majeure du cinéma indépendant, revient aux États-Unis. Pendant six mois, entre 1987 et 1988, il entreprend un voyage de retour en suivant la route numéro 1 qui traverse du nord au sud le pays en longeant la côte est. Dans un mélange de documentaire et de fiction typique au réalisateur, Kramer repre...
Videoletters
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Between February and June 1991, filmmakers Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin exchanged several video letters (four by Kramer, three by Dwoskin) shot in Hi-8. These _Videoletters_ freed them from the formalities that burdened their work and reflections at the time. Through this exchange, they began to learn and observe anew.
Ice
*Ice* is an innovative independent thriller, shot in New York City, which centers on a revolutionary group plotting to attack a fascistic political regime. Using a fictitious war with Mexico as an allegory for the conflict in Vietnam, Kramer uses a documentary style to dramatize the inner workings, disputes and tensions within the group itself as they plan guerrilla attacks against the American...
Milestones
_Milestones_ is the multifaceted portrait of the generation that sought radical solutions to America's problems in the 1960s and 1970s. It's a film about the lifestyle, attitude, and ideas of over fifty individuals, ranging from the snowy mountains of Vermont to the Hopi caves, and through the grime and energy of New York. Mirroring this, omnipresent, is the rumbling past of the United States; ...
Route One/USA
Après dix ans d'exil volontaire, Robert Kramer, chantre de la contre-culture américaine et figure majeure du cinéma indépendant, revient aux États-Unis. Pendant six mois, entre 1987 et 1988, il entreprend un voyage de retour en suivant la route numéro 1 qui traverse du nord au sud le pays en longeant la côte est. Dans un mélange de documentaire et de fiction typique au réalisateur, Kramer repre...
