Robert Nelson Filmes

"Special Warning is like a poem more than a narrative or story. It suggests states of isolation, barrenness, sexual guilt and sin, but even these...

"Nelson experiments with presenting his viewer with the two sides of every subject in a dense visual masterwork of stark superimpositions." (Mark...

"I'm definitely not interested in passing along intellectual information about California. There's plenty of that everywhere. I'm trying to get at...

Made by Robert Nelson and William Allan in cooperation with KQED-TV San Francisco. Starring an ensemble cast that includes Bill Gourley, Bruce...

A film by Robert Nelson

Nelson sets minimal, repetitive imagery against a looping recording of his daughter Oona, which goes gradually from sweet to curious to mysterious to...

Experimental filmmaker Robert Nelson brings his characteristic wit to this restaging of the famous “play rehearsal” scene from Hamlet,...

Recurrent themes of violence, sex and TV commercials. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

A black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us. The...

George visits underground filmmaker Robert Nelson in Milwaukee, and they brave the cold on Lake Michigan.

“In their starkly minimal film, The Awful Backlash, directors Robert Nelson and William Allan, focus solely on a pair of hands as they begin to...