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Informationen zum Autor Robert Frank! geboren 1924 in Zürich! ging 1947 in die Vereinigten Staaten. 1958 erschien sein Buch The Americans! ein bahnbrechendes Werk! das aus ganz neuer Perspektive auf die Amerikaner blickte und die Ästhetik des Fotobuchs revolutionierte. Weitere seiner Bücher sind Black White and Things und The Lines of My Hand. Zu seinen wichtigsten Filmen zählen Pull My Daisy und Cocksucker Blues. Franks Arbeiten werden weltweit ausgestellt. Robert Frank starb am 9. September 2019 im Alter von 94 Jahren. Zusammenfassung Me and My Brother was Robert Frank's first feature length film! completed and first shown in 1968 at the Venice Film Festival. Everything which had defined Frank's art up to that point turns up in this film - the look at America "from the outside"! the poetic libertinage of the Beats! the marginal in a central role. It celebrates the return of the poetic essay as assemblage! the affirmation of the underground as a wild cinematic analysis in the form of a collage! and skillfully weaves together opposites! plays counterfeits against the authentic! pornography against poetry! acting against being! Beat cynicism against hippie romanticism! monochrome against colored. The story contains bizarre twists and turns! and appears to be a rather artless-film-within-a-film being shown at a rundown movie theater. This previously unpublished book includes stills and dialogue from Me and My Brother! together with a DVD of the re-edited 85 minute film.
