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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
This Song for Jack is based on footage Robert Frank shot at “On the Road: The Jack Kerouac Conference,” held at the Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, from July 23 to August 1, 1982. The film is dedicated to Kerouac, Frank’s late friend and collaborator on Pull My Daisy and The Americans. Home-movie-like footage shot mostly on the Chautauqua lodge porch — the unofficial conference clubhouse — featuring Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Michael McClure, Edie Kerouac, Carl Solomon, Kens Kesey & Babbs, Abbie Hoffman, David Amram, Ann Charters, Joyce Johnson, Jack Micheline, Andy Clausen and others.
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
Images gallery
Finished
Sessions
December
Saturday 19
18:00 h
Filmoteca Española. Cine Doré.
Credits
Language
English - Subtitles in spanish
Director
Robert Frank
Cinematography
Robert Frank
Editing
Sam Edwards
Sound
Jay Markel
Production
Robert Frank