June Leaf

Home Improvements (1985)

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship between Frank’s life as an artist and his personal life, and how the two are inevitably intertwined. It was made cheaply with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Frank
CAST:  Robert Frank  •  June Leaf  •  Pablo Frank  •  Gunther Moses

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship between Frank’s life as an artist and his personal life, and how the two are inevitably intertwined. It was made cheaply with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Frank
CAST:  Robert Frank  •  June Leaf  •  Pablo Frank  •  Gunther Moses

Don't Blink: Robert Frank (2017)

The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount of territory he's covered, from The Americans in 1958 up to the present, is intimately registered in his now-formidable body of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laura Israel
CAST:  Robert Frank  •  June Leaf  •  Sid Kaplan  •  William S. Burroughs

The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount of territory he's covered, from The Americans in 1958 up to the present, is intimately registered in his now-formidable body of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Laura Israel
CAST:  Robert Frank  •  June Leaf  •  Sid Kaplan  •  William S. Burroughs

The Bowery (1994)

Documentary about the history, people, and culture of New Yorks' Bowery Street and neighborhood.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sara Driver
CAST:  Lucy Sante  •  Nemo Librizzi  •  Billy Dock  •  Slim Willy

Documentary about the history, people, and culture of New Yorks' Bowery Street and neighborhood.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sara Driver
CAST:  Lucy Sante  •  Nemo Librizzi  •  Billy Dock  •  Slim Willy

Keep Busy (1975)

The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated rhythm of its action and dialogue, this film is reminiscent of the playful and parodying elements of the Beat fantasy Pull ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Frank
CAST:  Joanne Akolitis  •  Joan Jonas  •  June Leaf  •  Richard Serra

The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated rhythm of its action and dialogue, this film is reminiscent of the playful and parodying elements of the Beat fantasy Pull ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Frank
CAST:  Joanne Akolitis  •  Joan Jonas  •  June Leaf  •  Richard Serra

Not Like Before (2005)

From January to November 2004, as a kind of carnet de voyage alongside our other activities, we asked one and the same question of various people we met on our journeys, including friends: "Do you remember a moment in your life when something really changed?" We ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Humbert  •  Werner Penzel
CAST:  Agnès Varda  •  Nicolas Philibert  •  June Leaf

From January to November 2004, as a kind of carnet de voyage alongside our other activities, we asked one and the same question of various people we met on our journeys, including friends: "Do you remember a moment in your life when something really changed?" We ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Humbert  •  Werner Penzel
CAST:  Agnès Varda  •  Nicolas Philibert  •  June Leaf

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank (1986)

Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography and filmmaking. This documentary which examines his life through his films and photographs, includes interviews with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Philip Brookman  •  Amy Brookman
CAST:  Philip Brookman  •  Allen Ginsberg  •  Robert Frank  •  Rudy Wurlitzer

Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography and filmmaking. This documentary which examines his life through his films and photographs, includes interviews with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Philip Brookman  •  Amy Brookman
CAST:  Philip Brookman  •  Allen Ginsberg  •  Robert Frank  •  Rudy Wurlitzer