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ROBERT NELSON: RAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA Born in San Francisco, 1930. Graduated from San Francisco State College and studied at California School of Fine Arts and Mills College. Taught at San Francisco Art Institute (1965-69), CalArts (1971-73) and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1978-94). Trained as a painter affiliated to the San Francisco funk art movement and began making films in 1961. An intensely productively period from 1965-67 resulted in 16 films including Oh Dem Watermelons<\/em> (1965) and The Great Blondino<\/em> (1967, with William T. Wiley). Nelson\u2019s films have won prizes at Chicago (1965), Oberhausen (1966), Knokke-Le-Zoute (1967) and Ann Arbor (1998), and are in collections worldwide including the Smithsonian Institute, MoMA, National Library of Australia and Centre Pompidou. Withdrew all titles from distribution in the 1990s and began to re-edit several early films. In 2002, Robert Nelson was awarded the Phelan Art Award in Film for his works, many of which are being preserved by the Academy Film Archive. This is his first ever retrospective in Europe.<\/p>\nPROGRAMME NOTES<\/a> ROBERT NELSON: RAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA Oberhausen 2006: For this special occasion only I have borrowed (appropriated), and personalized with my own initials, the title of an 80 year old silent film masterpiece by Dziga Vertov. When I first saw Man With The Movie Camera<\/em>, I hadn\u2019t yet dreamed of becoming a filmmaker. It was just a movie that treated my eyes and made me want more. Eye-candy with nourishment. Almost like being able to see music. It made a deep impression. Inspiration not named as such at the time; inspiration in retrospect.<\/p>\n No Method<\/p>\n It shows what can\u2019t be seen No art Step aside \u201cno method\u201d can\u2019t be taught Improv start to finish \u2014RAN *\u201cThe Creative is always strong, decided, real, hence it meets with no difficulties. It always remains true to itself; hence its effortlessness. [It] shows to men the easy.\u201d Robert Nelson filmography<\/strong><\/p>\n 1961 Building Muir Beach House (with Gunvor Nelson)
\n5\u20149 May 2006<\/strong>
\nInternational Short Film Festival Oberhausen<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>5\u20149 May 2006
\nInternational Short Film Festival Oberhausen<\/p>\n
\nIt sounds what can\u2019t be heard<\/p>\n
\nNo beauty s
\nNo language of literature
\nNo language of theater
\nNo documentation
\nNo narrative
\nNo story
\nNo message
\nNo script<\/p>\n
\nthe movie makes itself<\/p>\n
\nonly discovered
\nif you\u2019re lucky
\nand if you\u2019ve paid the price
\nlike ol\u2019 D.V.
\nBlindfolded in the dark
\nHe hits the nail on the head
\nEasy*
\nno problem.<\/p>\n
\nnot a note missed<\/p>\n
\n(the \u201cA\u201d stands for Andrew)
\nOberhausen 2006<\/p>\n
\nI Ching Wilhelm\/Baynes edition<\/p>\n
\n1962 Last Week at Oona\u2019s Bath (with Gunvor Nelson)
\n The Mystery of Amelia Air-Heart Solved!
\n1963 Plastic Haircut (with Ron Davis, Robert Hudson, William T. Wiley & Steve Reich, re-edit 1999 & 2003)
\n King Ubu (lost)
\n1965 Oh Dem Watermelons
\n Sixty Lazy Dogs (re-edit 1999, destroyed 2001)
\n Confessions of a Black Mother-Succuba
\n The Population Explosion Motorcycle Horse (audiotape)
\n Thick Pucker (re-edit 1999, destroyed 2002)
\n1966 Oily Peloso the Pumph Man (re-edit 1999)
\n1967 Grateful Dead (alternate version 1975)
\n Hot Leatherette
\n The Great Blondino (with William T. Wiley)
\n The Great Blondino Preview (with William T. Wiley)
\n The Off-Handed Jape (with William T. Wiley)
\n Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon (re-edit 1999)
\n Half-Open and Lumpy (re-edit 1999)
\n Superspread (re-edit 1999, destroyed 2000)
\n The Awful Backlash (with William Allan)
\n Portrait of Gourley (re-edit 1999)
\n1968 The Beard
\n War is Hell (with William Allan)
\n1969 What Do You Talk About ? (videotape, two versions)
\n1970 Bleu Shut
\n R.I.P. (re-edit as Rest in Pieces, 1974 & 2003)
\n King David (with Mike Henderson, re-edit 2003)
\n1971 No-More (re-edit as More, 2000)
\n1973 Worldly Woman (with Mike Henderson, new soundtrack 2003)
\n1974 Deep Westurn (with William Geis, Mike Henderson & William T. Wiley)
\n1976 Special Warning (re-edit 1999)
\n Suite California Stops and Passes: Part 1 (re-edit 2003)
\n1978 Suite California Stops and Passes: Part 2
\n Castiac Junction (aka Interesting Cities and Towns)
\n1979 How To Get Out of a Burning House
\n1982 Hamlet Act
\n1986 He Sees Blind Horses and Bad Poetry (destroyed 1999)
\n1985 Tiger Stymie (re-edit as Curious Native Customs, 1999)
\n1988 Limitations
\n1989 199 L. la (videotape)
\n1997 Hauling Toto Big<\/p>\n