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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. Klappentext Robert Frank's film One Hour is a single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O'Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattan's Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July! 1990 the film presents the curious experience of eavesdropping involuntarily on strangers. It appears to be a document of a journey but is also a kind of stream of consciousness retracing the same patterns and spaces. Zusammenfassung Robert Franks film One Hour is a single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O'Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattans Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July! 1990 the film presents the curious experience of eavesdropping involuntarily on strangers. It appears to be a document of a journey but is also a kind of stream of consciousness retracing the same patterns and spaces. This book is a reprint of a little-known Frank publication first issued by Hanuman Books in 1992! a tiny book! comprising mainly a transcription of the dialogue heard but also two pages of credits: half a dozen production or crew workers and 27 actors. Unravelling the apparent documentary nature of the film! there is also an acknowledgement that the film has a script (by Frank and his assistant! Michal Rovner)! that a conversation heard in a diner is written by Mika Moses! and that Peter Orlovskys lines (intercepted by Frank roughly halfway through the hour! in front of the Angelika Cinema on Houston Street) are total improvisation. ...
