Robert Nelson Movies
- 1967
Half-Open & Lumpy
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Found footage accompanies an accelerated song by the children’s band the Tweedy Brothers.
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- 1967
The Great Blondino Preview
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Out-takes from The Great Blondino
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- 1976
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley
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The first part of what was intended to be a three-part experimental travelog for Nelson’s home state of California, this film covers the...
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- 1967
Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon
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Nelson sets minimal, repetitive imagery against a looping recording of his daughter Oona, which goes gradually from sweet to curious to mysterious to...
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- 1965
Sixty Lazy Dogs
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A film by Robert Nelson
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- 1963
Plastic Haircut
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"Dada-inspired performance in which absurd actions take place in an environment of strange symbols and graphic forms." -Mark Webber. Design by...
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- 1969
Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey
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A black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us. The...
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- 1965
T.P.I.
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A film by Robert Nelson
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- 1998
Hauling Toto Big
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Hauling Toto Big is a dense and ecstatic work of fragmented narratives, dream states, chaos and serenity… a culmination of Nelson’s...
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- 1965
T.P.II
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A film by Robert Nelson
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- 1968
War is Hell
War is Hell01968HD
Made by Robert Nelson and William Allan in cooperation with KQED-TV San Francisco. Starring an ensemble cast that includes Bill Gourley, Bruce...
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- 1965
Oh Dem Watermelons
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Commissioned by the San Francisco Mime Troupe as a short to be screened during intermission for its rather infamous 1965 Minstrel Show (Civil Rights...
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- 1967
Soup or Spread
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A film by Robert Nelson
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