The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount of territory he's covered, from The Americans in 1958 up to the present, is intimately registered in his now-formidable body of artistic gestures. From the early '90s on, Frank has been making his films and videos with the brilliant editor Laura Israel, who has helped him to keep things homemade and preserve the illuminating spark of first contact between camera and people/places. Don't Blink is Israel's like-minded portrait of her friend and collaborator, a lively rummage sale of images and sounds and recollected passages and unfathomable losses and friendships that leaves us a fast and fleeting imprint of the life of the Swiss-born man who reinvented himself the American way, and is still standing on ground of his own making at the age of 90.
Laura Israel
Director
Robert Frank
Self
June Leaf
Self
Sid Kaplan
Self - Darkroom printer
William S. Burroughs
Self (archive footage)
Robert Downey Sr.
Self (archive footage)
Pablo Frank
Self (archive footage)
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
Robert Golka
Self (archive footage)
Cameraperson67%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Nothing Like a Dame68%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing70%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
For Sama82%
Making 'The Shining'71%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch70%
Directed by John Ford70%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Sherman's March67%
Maidentrip70%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
The Walking Dead: The Return73%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Being James Bond77%
Nude93%
