FILMS
BERLIN 1090
ROBERT KRAMER
by Gérard Courant - Cinématon #122
ICE
(1969_R.Kramer)
SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLES IN PORTUGAL
(Cenas da Luta de Classes em Portugal)
THEN & NOW
[MILESTONES—1975-2010]
(Robert Kramer and John Douglas)
"Paradoxically, one of the problems [Milestones] encountered with some viewers was that they thought it was a documentary and felt cheated when they discovered it was not. While it is not a documentary, it does employ its 'actors' in such a way as to achieve a kind of documentary truth which is all the more powerful for being so personal. Whether one likes it or not (and I do) it is a monument."—Richard Roud, Cinema: A Critical Dictionary
“While it is not a documentary, it does employ its ‘actors’ in such a way as to achieve a kind of documentary truth which is all the more powerful for being personal.”—Richard Roud, Cinema: A Dictionary of American Directors
FALN VENEZULA
(Peter Gessner and Robert Kramer-1965)
Point of Departure
(Robert Kramer)
Room 666
(Wim Wenders-1982)
Milestones di Robert Kramer
“Neither John (Douglas) nor Robert understood exactly who they were. Were they artists? In what way? We had always found it bizarre to see ourselves in that role.
Were we vagabonds? thinkers? fathers? aikido fighters? experimenters? Just people trying to get through the day?
Many confusions. What to do when the goal is blocked?
We decided to make a film, without any particular good reason.
And because it was what we knew, because it is the only way we knew to think about many things we made a film on the pieces of our culture, one we knew well and in the rhythm and tempo of the lives around us. Our lives and those of the eople we loved—and the contradictions in those lives and their sufferings.
For better or worse, such is the socio-historical context of Milestones.” (Robert Kramer, John Douglas, “Presentation,” April 1975. Positif # 173, September 1975).