One of the earliest films to document Robert Frank's career, Fire in the East includes interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Emile de Antonio, Jonas Mekas, Rudy Wurlitzer, June Leaf, and John Szarkowski, among others. (Philip Brookman and Amy Brookman, 1986, video, 28 minutes)

Friends and family, New York and Nova Scotia, and the artist's fixations and fascinations shape the content of Robert Frank's films. This selection includes work completed between 1996 and 2005. The Present (1996, 35 mm, 24 minutes); Flamingo (1997, digital beta, 7 minutes); I Remember (1998, digital beta, 5 minutes); Sanyu (1999, digital beta, 27 minutes); Paper Route (2002, digital beta, 23 minutes); and True Story (2004, digital beta, 26 minutes)

Frank's straightforward reflections on the course of his own path-breaking career as photographer and filmmaker form the core of the only feature-length documentary ever completed on his life. British director and producer Gerald Fox will discuss the film following the screening. (Gerald Fox, 2005, HD-Cam, 85 minutes)

Following Robert Frank's footsteps fifty years after The Americans, French filmmaker Philippe Séclier retraces Frank's trip around the United States in 1955 and 1956. Using the same unplanned approach Frank pioneered, and working with a small digital camera, Séclier explores the impact of The Americans on photography and culture. (Philippe Séclier, 2008, digital beta, 60 minutes)

A selection of poetic avant-garde works by various artists, chosen for this program by independent curator Michael H. Shamberg in honor of Robert Frank's photography and films: Junkopia (Chris Marker, 6 minutes); NYC Weights and Measures (Jem Cohen, 6 minutes); p.s. beirut (Michael H. Shamberg, 7 minutes); Notes on Iceland (Melody Owen, 5 minutes); After Writing (Mary Helena Clark, 4 minutes); Monsanto (Paula Gaitán, 22 minutes); Nocturne (Avenue A, no lens) (Joel Schlemowitz, 3 minutes); Ah Liberty! (Ben Rivers, 19 minutes); Summer Cannibals (Robert Frank, 4 minutes); Run (Robert Frank, 4 minutes); Playback (Pere Portabella, 8 minutes). (89 minutes total)

"Listen—this program is one of musical discovery, Sebaldian in tone. I had no plan but thought of the work of Jem Cohen, Melody Owen, Chris Marker, and my p.s. beirut as they played together before the premiere of Robert Frank's Tunnel in New York last year. I knew also I wanted to show Robert's two music videos for New Order and Patti Smith. At Views from the Avant-Garde at the New York Film Festival last fall I discovered the work of Ben Rivers, Joel Schlemowitz, and Mary Helena Clark, and then there was a bit of magic: Bruce Conner's Valse Triste appeared unannounced in the middle of a program. Shortly thereafter I was fortunate to see a rare projection of C.S. Blues (1972) at Anthology Film Archives and I discovered Robert as a composer. The drugs, the sex, and the rock 'n' roll were not just a subject but also the sound, the image, and the edit of the film itself. Paula Gaitán sent me her new short, Monsanto, and Robert appeared again in its poetry, 'His light body.' Then I received a copy of Pere Portabella's Playback and its music made For Robert sing. I feel like a composer assembling these works that speak to Robert Frank, to his images, his sense of place, his humanity, and humor. These filmmakers walk in his shoes, without a map, their footfalls the rhythms of discovered compositions" –Michael H. Shamberg.