Robert Kramer

Robert Kramer ( born June 22, 1939 in New York City, New York, † November 10, 1999 in Rouen, France) was an American documentary filmmaker, actor and screenwriter.

Life

Kramer studied philosophy and Western European History at Swarthmore College and Stanford University. In the 1960s he was a member of the radical left. He was one of the founders in 1967 of the film collective " Newsreel ". 1969 turned Kramer along with Norman Fruchter and John Douglas in North Vietnam People's War. The negative utopia Ice visualized 1970, the fears of the radical left of a new fascism, impressively symbolizes the castration of a revolutionary.

Since the early 1980s, Kramer lived in Europe.

Filmography (selection)

Bibliography

  • Michael Renov: Newsreel: Old and New. Towards An Historical profiles. in: Film Quarterly. Vol 41, No. 1 ( Autumn, 1987), pp. 20-33.
  • Robert Kramer: [ Pubblicato in occasione dell'Omaggio a Robert Kramer in programma nell'ambito del XV Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani ( Torino, 14-22 novembre 1997) ] éd. par Roberto Turigliatto, Lindau, Torino 1997.
  • Robert Kramer, un compagnon de route de Charles Tesson et Marcher, parler, filmer. d' Olivier Joyard, Les Cahiers du cinéma. N ° 541, juillet 1999.
  • Peter Gessner, Robert Kramer, Expatriate: A Filmmaker's Journey Radical, 1939-1999 in: The Nation. April 2000.
  • Trajets à travers le cinéma de Robert Kramer. to you. par Vincent Vatrican, Aix -en- Provence: Inst de l'image, 2001.
  • Points de départ: entretiens avec Robert Kramer. avec Eisenschitz, Bernard. Turigliatto, Roberto; Aix -en- Provence: Inst de l' Image, 2001.
  • Robert Kramer: monograph. à l' occasion du 17è Festival, 15 mars au 1er avril 2006 à Bobigny, sous la you. Dominique de Bax, Magic Cinéma, Bobigny, 2006.
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