Anne Charlotte Robertson is an American filmmaker born on March 27, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio, and died of cancer on September 15, 2012 in Framingham, Massachusetts. She is considered a pioneer of experimental cinema in the first person.
Anne Charlotte Robertson grew up in a middle-class Protestant family. She studied film in Boston at the Massachusetts College of Arts where she is a student of the great American master of the Super 8 Saul Levine. She also chooses this medium which, at the time, was the most accessible. She is also influenced by filmmakers as different as Ed Pincus or Carolee Schneemann.
Five Year Diary - A monumental self-portrait, a gigantic 36-hour corpus, divided into 85 reels with a duration of 26 minutes, Five Year Diary is the most important work of the filmmaker. It covers two decades. In this chronicle of his daily life in Massachusetts, Robertson bluntly documents his struggle to survive the depression. Dark and intense interior monologues, tinged here and there with the humor and self-deprecation of the artist's consciousness of his illness, give this therapeutic experience in the cinema its fullest depth.
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It's been 16 years, and finally the Diary ends, an unintended ending that visits familiar territory. ...
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Influenced by filmmakers as diverse as Ed Pincus and Carolee Schneemann, Anne Charlotte Robertson was a Boston area Super 8 filmmaker who examined and shared her life through her work – a mix of essay, performance and stop-motion animation. Diagnosed wit ...
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Anne mourns the death of her young niece, Emily. ...
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Anne's niece Emily dies. Anne goes into a deep depression. ...
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One of Robertson's most life-affirming films, shot entirely within one of her beloved community garden plots, using the asynchronous sound tracks that she often favored, this time with a "score" of baby sounds. ...
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Short film of filmmaker Anne Charlotte Robertson apologizing to the camera for everything-- From drinking non-organic coffee, to returning her camera a day late, to smoking and damaging her lungs; She apologizes to the audience for her thoughts, her apolog ...
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The would-be penultimate Diary reel. Anne ruminates about the upcoming end of the Diary – and mourns it, of course. Familiar themes of Dr Who, drinking, comedy, and a nice trick-or-treat Halloween sequence. ...
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Anne travels west with her camera to visit family. ...
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Anne takes a road trip to Niagara Falls trip with her family in this exceptionally beautiful Diary reel. ...
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Two years into the Diary, Anne began graduate school at Massachusetts College of Art. Reel 26 was shot silently; the soundtrack is an audio recording she made during a graduate review. She discusses her work with Super 8 auteur and professor Saul Levine an ...
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Among Robertson's most accomplished animated works is this collage film inspired by her struggles with binge eating and obsessive magazine collecting. Ronald Reagan is referenced in the playfully militarized jelly beans that were his favorite candy. ...
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Introduction; paranoia about root vegetables; esoteric sign language; searching for hidden significances; crush on Tom Baker ("Doctor Who" from BBC Television); my cats Amy and Buddy; vegetarian cooking; the compost heap; my mother and her house; driving i ...
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Introduction; a vegetarian dinner; the lover sleeping; sorting garbage; ex-lovers' art; friends and cocaine; moon; composting sable brushes; the kitchen sink; wine; eating with my hands; the kitchen table; self-portraits'; construction machines; hiding beh ...
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Pixilation. Sleeping, cooking, resolving to quit smoking. ...
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Anne consults the dictionary in this one – what is "fat?" what is "thin?" Inanimate objects are animated, and Anne experiences problems with her camera. ...
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"I made a film about suicide illustrating some of the ways I thought I'd kill myself, and literally edited it in about an hour and a half and screened it, and as I watched the film, the suicide voices stopped in my head and they haven't come back since." A ...
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Daily morning trudge and trolley through snow and ice; pigeons, other winter beauties. ...
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Watch NowInfluenced by filmmakers as diverse as Ed Pincus and Carolee Schneemann, Anne Charlotte Robertson was a Boston area Super 8 filmmaker who examined and shared her life through her work – a mix of essay, performance and stop-motion animation. Diagnosed wit ...
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Watch NowAnne's niece Emily dies. Anne goes into a deep depression. ...
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