Book
Starting Places: A Conversation with Robert Kramer
Available from mid-September
In summer 1997, French film critic and historian Bernard Eisenschitz met with American film director, screenwriter, and actor Robert Kramer (born 1939) three times to speak in detail about Kramer's life and work, covering thirty years of filmmaking. The exchange between friends starts with his early, activist years and his involvement with the Newsreel Collective, considers essential films like Ice (1969) and Milestones (1975), and traces Kramer’s orientation towards Europe and relocation to France in the late 1970s. Going back and forth between Europe, the USA, Portugal, and Vietnam, Kramer was consistently able to work and make films like Doc's Kingdom (1987), Route One/USA (1989), and Starting Place (1993). He passed away in 1999.
The conversation was published in French in 2001 as Points de départ. More than 20 years later, Starting Places: A Conversation with Robert Kramer makes this illuminating account of a "mid-Atlantic" filmmaker available in its original language for the first time. The book is complemented by three of Kramer's essays from the 1980s and 1990s and an updated bibliography and filmography.
The conversation was published in French in 2001 as Points de départ. More than 20 years later, Starting Places: A Conversation with Robert Kramer makes this illuminating account of a "mid-Atlantic" filmmaker available in its original language for the first time. The book is complemented by three of Kramer's essays from the 1980s and 1990s and an updated bibliography and filmography.
Bernard Eisenschitz in collaboration with Roberto Turigliatto
Starting Places: A Conversation with Robert Kramer
Edited by Volker Pantenburg
FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Vol. 37
Vienna 2024, 224 pages, in English
Vienna 2024, 224 pages, in English
ISBN 978-3-901644-95-5
Table of Contents (PDF)
Available from mid-September 2024
Book launch on October 19, 2024 in the presence of Volker Pantenburg and Bernard Eisenschitz
All publications produced by the Austrian Film Museum are distributed internationally by Columbia University Press.
Available from mid-September 2024
Book launch on October 19, 2024 in the presence of Volker Pantenburg and Bernard Eisenschitz
All publications produced by the Austrian Film Museum are distributed internationally by Columbia University Press.
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Program Oct / Nov 2024 - Robert Kramer
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