“My project was to make a film about music in America…. Well, fuck the music. I just decided to make a film about myself.” Robert Frank’s self-portrait is a film about music that repeatedly poses questions concerning artistic expression and the function of memory. Frank himself introduces an actress as “the young lady that is playing me.” She throws a stack of photographs onto the bed and says with disgust, “That’s my past.” Despite the apparently autobiographical nature of the film, Frank, the immigrant, regards his story as a collective one. The film teaches temple musicians in Benares, India, “hope freaks” in New Mexico and inmates in a Texas prison. “That’s me,” Frank says when an old-fashioned film projector shows him as a small child. An interview of passers-by completes the circle: “If you had a camera and some film, what would you shoot?” A street musician answers, “About myself,” and starts playing a classic number. “Those were the days, my friend.”
Robert Frank, nacido el 5 de noviembre de 1924 en Zúrich, Suiza, es una importante figura estadounidense dentro del ámbito de la fotografía y el cine. Su trabajo más destacado es el libro de fotografía The Americans, publicado en 1958, el cual está fuertemente influenciado por el periodo de la post-guerra, y el cual lo ha llevado a ser considerado como un Alexis de Tocqueville moderno por su visión escéptica y fresca de la sociedad estadounidense vista desde una perspectiva de extranjero. Frank expandió sus intereses posteriormente al cine y experimentó con la composición y manipulación de fotografías.
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