The State of Things
1983
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Robert Kramer (June 22, 1939 – November 10, 1999), born in New York and educated at Swarthmore College and Stanford University, was an American film director, screenwriter and actor who directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999, most of them political cinema made from a left-wing point of view.
Aug 19, 2020 · Robert Kramer (1939-99), an American filmmaker more highly regarded in his adopted country of France than at home, made his four-hour magnum opus, “Route One/USA,” as a tourist in his...
Apr 26, 2021 · According to The Washington Post, Kramer sold off more than $10 million worth of his stock in the company in January and early February— before the Johnson & Johnson debacle was disclosed in ...
A 1975 hybrid of documentary and fiction that chronicles the failed dreams of '60s radicals, codirected by Robert Kramer and John Douglas. The film follows more than fifty characters across the US, from New York to California, as they struggle with personal and political crises.
A profile of the maverick filmmaker who made politically committed and radical films in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn about his involvement in Newsreel, his documentary and fiction works, and his vision of cinema as a tool of community-building.
- David Fresko
Metrograph presents a two-part retrospective of Robert Kramer, a radical filmmaker who documented the counterculture and protest movements in the 1960s. The first part features films from 1965-1975, such as ICE, In the Country, and Milestones.
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Ray Carney praises Robert Kramer as one of the unsung heroes of the first generation American independent filmmaking movement. He analyzes Kramer's films Ice and Milestones, which expose the limitations of ideological understandings and the complexity of human emotions.
