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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
Whole Earth Catalog editor Stewart Brand and his friend Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) asked Robert Frank to document “The Hunger Show,” a week-long fast staged by the Portola Institute in California. This was a “happening” designed to make the problem of world hunger and malnutrition a personal matter for participants and observers. The film records the event which took place from October 11 to October 18, 1969 in a parking lot in Hayward.
Biografía del director
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
Cinematography
Robert Frank
Editing
Susan Obenhaus
Sound
Danny Lyon
Production
Stewart Brand, Hugh Romney