Robert Frank: c'Est Vrai! (One Hour)

C'est vrai! (One Hour) is a single-take of Robert Frank and actor Kevin O'Connor walking and riding in the back of a minivan through lower Manhattan. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 p.m. on July 26, 1990, it appears to document a journey, but this little and little-known book, first issued by Hanuman in 1992, reveals it to have had a script (by Frank and his assistant, Michal Rovner) and enough actors (27) and crew to fill two pages of credits. Frank also acknowledges that a conversation heard in a diner is written by Mika Moses, but that Peter Orlovsky's crucial plot-turning lines, intercepted by Frank roughly halfway through the hour, in front of the Angelika Cinema on Houston Street, are total improvisation. C'est Vrai is published as a part of a long-term program to re-issue all of Frank's works; the film will also be issued as a DVD within Robert Frank: The Complete Film Works.

Author: Robert Frank
Publisher: Steidl
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 6.08h x 4.94w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9783865213648
ISBN10: 3865213642
BISAC Categories:
- Photography | Individual Photographers | General
- Performing Arts | Film | General