Pull My Daisy
Pull My Daisy
(Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, US 1959, 28 min., 16mm)
Me and My Brother
(Robert Frank, US 1969, 91 min., 35mm)
Two films by Robert Frank. In anticipation of next week’s Rochester Premiere of Don’t Blink—Robert Frank, a new documentary on one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century, we present two of Robert Frank’s best-known and era-defining films. Pull My Daisy is a classic look at the soul of the beat generation, made with writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and painters Alfred Leslie, Larry Rivers, and Alice Neel, and is recognized as one of the most important works of avant-garde cinema. Me and My Brother, Frank’s first feature-length film, places documentary footage of poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Peter’s brother Julius within a fictional framework. Constantly delineating real and imaginary situations and moving back and forth between color and black and white, the film describes the inner and outer worlds of Julius, a catatonic, who silently observes the world around him. Both prints courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.