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ROBERT NELSON: RAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA 2 Robert Nelson, Plastic Haircut, USA, 1963, 16mm, 16 min<\/strong> Robert Nelson, The Off-Handed Jape, USA, 1967, 16mm, 9 min<\/strong> Robert Nelson, Hot Leatherette, USA, 1967, 16mm, 5 min<\/strong> Robert Nelson, Grateful Dead, USA, 1967, 16mm, 9 min<\/strong> Robert Nelson, Bleu Shut, USA, 1970, 16mm, 33 min<\/strong> Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robert-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFriday 5 May 2006, at 10:30pm<\/strong>
\n International Short Film Festival Oberhausen<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPreserved by Pacific Film Archive with the cooperation of Robert Nelson and the support of the William H. Donner Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts<\/em>
\nDada-inspired performance in which absurd actions take place in an environment of strange symbols and graphic forms. (MW)
\n\u201cNone of us knew anything about making movies at that time, but we all knew about art (namely, that it had something to do with having a good time).\u201d (RAN)<\/p>\n
\nPreserved by the Academy Film Archive<\/em>
\nA humorous lesson in gestural acting from Dr. Otis Bird and Butch Babad, demonstrating such useful phrases as \u201cthe verge of remembering\u201d and \u201cletting your friend know he\u2019s forgotten to zip up his pants.\u201d (MW)
\n\u201cThis film can be of immeasurable aid to would-be actors who are weak in the jape.\u201d (William T. Wiley)<\/p>\n
\nPreserved by the Academy Film Archive<\/em>
\n\u201cA kinetic film sketch designed to involve the viewers\u2019 muscles. The rocky seaside cliffs near Stinson Beach, California, hold the wrecked carcass of a \u201952 pickup that is a rusting monument to Hot Leatherette.\u201d (RAN)<\/p>\n
\nFootage of the Grateful Dead is treated, re-filmed and cut together to a tape collage of tracks from their first album. (MW)
\n\u201cThe film is full of beautiful invention and works as a visual equivalent of their musical impressions. The cuts and loops, blurring polarisations, chopped up and speeded up action all serve to render the West Coast rock group as if they were animated cartoon characters.\u201d (Variety)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cEven when we know the game is an illusion, the experience of Bleu Shut is entirely a pleasure: the \u2018game\u2019 is fun; the Nelson\/Wiley debates, infectiously funny; and Nelson\u2019s choice of imagery, quirky and amusing. Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.\u201d (Scott MacDonald)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"