Anne Charlotte Robertson

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Anne Charlotte Robertson (born March 27, 1949 in Columbus , † September 15, 2012 in Framingham ) was an American film director .

life and work

Robertson began in the mid-1970s, even before the studies at the University of Massachusetts , Super 8 rotate movies. She received her master's degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design with Saul Levine. In 2001 she was awarded a Guggenheim scholarship . Her main work is the 38-hour film Five Year Diary (1981–1997), a long-term project on which she worked for fifteen years. Each episode of this cinematic diary takes place over several days and is 27 minutes long. The entire diary contains 84 rolls of film . Ann Charlotte Robertson also shot more than 30 short films. Several of her short films were shown at documenta 14 .

She lived in Framingham, Massachusetts, for 30 years until her death, where she died of complications from cancer in 2012.

Filmography (selection of short films)

  • 1976: experiment
  • 1976: Pixillation
  • 1976: Spirit of '76
  • 1976: Subways
  • 1979: Dawn
  • 1979: snooze alarm
  • 1979: Suicide
  • 1980: Homebirth
  • 1981: Locomotion
  • 1981: Out a Window
  • 1981: Going to work
  • 1981: Lonely streets
  • 1983: Magazine Mouth
  • 1984: Depression Focus Please
  • 1985: Talking to Myself # 1
  • 1985: Kafka camera
  • 1985: Fruit
  • 1985: Rotting Pumpkin
  • 1985: Anne Robertson
  • 1986: My Obsession
  • 1987: The Nude
  • 1987: With Clothes
  • 1988: Talking to Myself # 2
  • 1988: Weight
  • 1988: Diet
  • 1990: Apologies
  • 1998: Melon Patches
  • 1998: Alien Corn
  • 2001: My Cat, My Garden and 9/11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IFFR Anne Charlotte Robertson , retrieved (English) on July 13, 2019
  2. ↑ Harvard Film Archive The Anne Charlotte Robertson Collection , accessed July 13, 2019. (English)
  3. ↑ documenta 14, daybook Anne Charlotte Robertson , accessed on July 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ Orbituary: Anne Charlotte Robertson , MetroWest Daily News, September 19, 2012 (English).
  5. ↑ Anne Charlotte Robinson , margins.re, accessed on 14 July 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Robertson, Anne Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2012
Place of death Framingham , Massachusetts