Sunday 12 December 2004, 15.00

Flamingo
Canada 1996, b/w video, 5’
'This is the time to say a few words: about building a house, about projecting slides.'
Miranda Dali's lyrical, dislocated voice comments on the construction of a new foundation for Frank's house in Nova Scotia, while the black and white remains of a memory flow in a rapid montage.

The Sin of Jesus
USA 1961, 35mm, 37'
Based on a story by Isaac Babel, Frank's second film is one of his most stylised, indicating his increasingly sophisticated cinematographic eye. In this bleak, Bergmanesque parable Jesus refuses mercy to a young woman, instead giving her a guardian angel whom she seduces.

OK End Here
USA 1963, 35mm, 32'
This stunning short film about inertia in modern relationships indicates Frank's interest in the French Nouvelle Vague and Michelangelo Antonioni, but the cinematic snapshots of urban life are very much in the style of his own photographic series The Americans.

The Robert Frank film series is screening in connection with the Tate Modern exhibition.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Robert Frank: Storylines exhibition