American film director
Robert Nelson (March 1, 1930; San Francisco – January 9, 2012; Laytonville, California ) was an American experimental film director.[1] [2]
Archive The moving image collection of Robert Nelson is housed at the Academy Film Archive.[3] The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of Robert Nelson's films, including Grateful Dead , The Great Blondino Hot Leatherette .[4]
Selected filmography The Great Blondino Building Muir Beach House (1961, with Gunvor Nelson )Last Week at Oona's Bath (1962, with Gunvor Nelson )The Mystery of Amelia Air-Heart Solved (1962)King Ubu (1963)Plastic Haircut (1963, with William T. Wiley , R.G. Davis, Robert H. Hudson , Steve Reich )Oh Dem Watermelons (1965)Confessions of a Black Mother-Succuba (1965)Oily Peloso the Pumph Man (1965)Thick Pucker (1965)Sixty Lazy Dogs (1965)Half-Open and Lumpy (1967)Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon (1967)Superspread (1967)The Beard (1967) Portrait of Gourley (1967)The Off Handed Jape (1967, with William T. Wiley )Hot Leatherette (1967)The Great Blondino William T. Wiley )Grateful Dead (1967)The Awful Backlash (1967, with William Allan)War is Hell (1968, with William Allan)What Do You Talk About? (1969, with William T. Wiley )Bleu Shut (1970)King David (1970/73/2003, with Mike Henderson)R.I.P. (1970/74/2003)No-More (1971, with various students at Cornell University)Worldly Woman (1973, with Mike Henderson)Deep Westurn (1974)Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood Via Death Valley (1976)Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (1978)Hamlet Act (1982)Limitations (1988)Curious Native Customs (1989)199 L.la (1989)Hauling Toto Big (1997)Special Warning (1998)
See also
References ^ Weber, Bruce (January 21, 2012). "Robert Nelson, Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 81". The New York Times . Retrieved January 26, 2012 . ^ "Still Underground: Films by Robert Nelson". January 21, 2008. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2012 . ^ "Robert Nelson Collection". Academy Film Archive . September 5, 2014. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive .
External links "Goodbye, Bob" post by Mark Toscano, from Preservation Insanity Canyoncinema.com L.A. Weekly article, Jan 17, 2008
