THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER
Filmmaker ROBERT KRAMER
Robert Kramer (1939 –1999) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999. During this time, he cemented his place as one of modern cinema’s most vital political filmmakers Jonas Mekas considered Kramer to be “a filmmaker of the first magnitude.” A former community activist, a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and founding member of The Newsreel collective, he documented the counterculture and protest movements during the 1960s at home, and on the front lines in North Vietnam. It was from the generation of ’60s activism that this bold cinematic and journalistic voice emerged, with films that felt both original and refreshingly homegrown.
GME distributes DSL & DVD editions of the following Robert Kramer films:
THE EDGE / ICE
Robert Kramer (US)
THE EDGE (1967) and ICE (1969) form a definitive diptych on the temptations of terrorism and insurrection: a man wants to assassinate the President of the United States (THE EDGE); revolutionary groups launch a major armed offensive against the ruling regime (ICE).
GUNS
Robert Kramer(France)
Following a series of films questioning commitment and politics in America and culminating with MILESTONES 1975, and a 1977’s SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN PORTUGAL, Kramer moved to France. The first film he made there was GUNS, an intricate feature which echoed the paranoid films of 1970’s Hollywood.
IN THE COUNTRY
Robert Kramer(US)
“IN THE COUNTRY is the place where one comes into contact with other, absolutely non-political and everlasting rhythms of things. Their guardian is the woman: she is wise and can appear in many forms, but she knows quite a lot about finding a harmonious balance between your own needs and those of others. Another form of logic.”
-Robert Kramer