DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
Filmed in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fictional ideas. What began as a documentary film about Robert Golka, an engineer who was experimenting with ball lightening and the development of fusion as an energy force, was turned into a spoof on the documentary form, inserting fictional characters into the story such as the Energy Czar (William Burroughs), and a Hollywood agent (filmmaker Robert Downey).
Biografía del director
Gary Hill
Director's biography not available
Rudy Wurlitzer
Director's biography not available
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (b. 1924, Zurich) is one of the most well-known and acclaimed photographers in the world. Yet he was also a filmmaker, a fact that comparatively few remember or are even aware of. From 1959 onwards, he put his work as a photographer on hold to focus on cinema, going on to complete more than 25 films over a 50-year career until his death in September 2019. Many of these are regarded as seminal works within the international independent and documentary scene.
Photo credit: Dodo Jin Ming
Finished
Sessions
December
Wednesday 23
18:00 h
Filmoteca Española. Cine Doré.
Credits
Language
- Subtitles in spanish
Director
Robert Frank, Gary Hill, Rudy Wurlitzer
Screenplay
Rudy Wurlitzer
Cinematography
Robert Frank, Gary Hill
Editing
Gary Hill
Sound
Leanne Ungeer, John Knoop