Robert Kramer

Robert Kramer
Born	June 22, 1939 New York City, New York
Died	November 10, 1999 (aged 60) Haute-Normandie, France
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, actor
Years active	1965–1999

Robert Kramer (June 22, 1939 – November 10, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999, most of them political cinema made from a left-wing point of view.^[1][2] His film À toute allure was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Filmography

• FALN (1965) ^[4]
• In the Country (1967)
• The Edge (1968)
• The People's War (1970) ^[5]
• Ice (1970)
• Milestones (1975)
• Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977) ^[6]
• Guns (1980) ^[7]
• À toute allure (Full speed, 1982)
• Notre nazi (Our Nazi, 1985) ^[8]
• Diesel (1985) ^[9][10][11]
• Doc's Kingdom (1987) ^[12]
• X-Country (pronounced "cross-country") (1987) ^[13]
• Route One USA (1989) ^[14]
• Contre l'oubli (Against Oblivion, collective, 1991) ^[15]
• Point de départ (Starting Place, 1994) ^[16]
• Le manteau (The Coat, 1996) ^[17]
• Walk the Walk (1996) ^[18]
• The Ghosts of Electricity (1997) ^[19]
• Cités de la plaine (Flat Land Cities, 2001) ^[20]

See also

• Guerrilla filmmaking
• Newsreel ^{[21][22][23][24]}

References

1. Kramer at The Guardian
2. Robert Kramer and the Jewish-German Question – essay by Hironobu Baba at Rouge
3. Festival de Cannes
4. FALN at Icarus Films
5. People's War + Scenes from a Class Struggle in Portugal at Eastman Museum
6. Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal at Metro Cinema
7. Guns, storyline at Letterboxed
8. Thomas Harlan and Robert Kramer at Diagonal Thoughts
9. Kramer v. Kramer, review by Serge Daney
10. Diesel, chronique at Nanarland
11. Trailer
12. Review by Richard F. Shepard at NY Time, September 9, 1988
13. X-Country presentation, Turin Film Festival website
14. Route One USA, review by Caryn James at The NY Times, November 2, 1990
15. Against Oblivion at Unifrance
16. Point de départ at Féstival des 3 continents
17. Le manteau at IMDb
18. Walk the walk: Robert Kramer, interview with Pedro Winter at Les Inroks
19. Ghosts of Electricity (Kramer's vision of the future of cinema)
20. Cités de la plaine – Note (fr) sur Les films du paradoxe
21. Newsreel: Activist film collective
22. Newsreel on Newsreel, Film Quarterly, Winter 1968
23. Reference at Harvard College
24. Documentary Filmmaking on the American Left, New York : Arno Press, 1980, by Bill Nichols

External links

• Robert Kramer (official webpage)
• Robert Kramer at the Internet Movie Database
• Bio and filmography at Harvard Film Archive.
• The Guardian obituary.
• New York Times obituary.
• Robert Kramer at Find a Grave