Robert Fulton

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb (2020)

Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he'd just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds mor ...

Robert E. Fulton III Edit of Burroughs: The Movie (2015)

After two years of filming, director Howard Brookner brought inventor and photographer Robert E. Fulton III a trunkful of William S. Burroughs footage to see if Fulton could edit his film. The result was a decidedly experimental 23-minute cut. The director ...

Dead Birds Re-Encountered (2013)

Robert Gardner returns to the Dani villages where he made his seminal 1964 ethnographic documentary Dead Birds. ...

Great Natural Wonders of the World (2002)

David Attenborough sets out on an intrepid quest across seven continents to create a unique television event to celebrate the wealth of natural features that makes Planet Earth so varied, so distinctive and so spectacularly beautiful. ...

Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator (2000)

A documentary about a legendary American film maker/aviator Robert Fulton who was contracted by the BBC to film aerial cinematography throughout South America. ...

Fire on the Mountain (1996)

A documentary film about the exploits of the 10th Mountain Division, an elite group of mountain climbers who fought decisive battles against the Nazis in the Italian Alps during the final days of World War II. From the intensive training atop the Colorado ...

Geography of Hope (1996)

A visually stunning aerial journey throughout the American Southwest with Robert Fulton, filmmaker/pilot extraordinaire accompanied with a mystical soundtrack by Joakin Bello. Never has there been such a diverse and highly original view of an America that ...

Colorado Landscapes (1994)

The video is an aerial view of Colorado from a Cessna 180 flying over the cities to the mountain peaks, over rivers, farms, canyons and deserts. ...

Poison in the Rockies (1990)

Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters. ...

Ika Hands (1988)

In the highlands of Northern Columbia the Ika live a strenuous and isolated life, economically dependent on small gardens and a handful of domestic animals. They are thought to be descendants of the Maya who fled from the turmoil of Central American High C ...

Windham Hill: Tibet (1988)

Tibet – Mere mention of the word Tibet evokes images of a rich and magical country, its culture shrouded by a remote and inaccessible location. The music on this recording was composed and arranged by Mark Isham for the Windham Hill video, Tibet. It prov ...

Windham Hill: China (1987)

The opening of China to the West has produced images that focus on the more obvious: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the tombs of Sian. But there is another much larger part of China which we have not seen. It's the China of people, its rhythms, its pa ...

Windham Hill: Seasons (1986)

Featuring selections from the Windham Hill videos Water's Path, Western Light, Autumn Portrait, and Winter. ...

Windham Hill: Winter (1985)

This program has been hailed as a natural moment so perfectly described that it will never be forgotten. Scenes captured in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California during the months of December 1984 and January 1985 accompanied by the music of 12 Windham Hil ...

Windham Hill: Autumn Portrait (1985)

Features the beauty of colors and lights of Autumn in New England. ...

Windham Hill: Western Light (1984)

Filmed during the months of June and August 1984 in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Mesa Verde National Park and the Navajo Nation. This program reveals scenes of the lushness of California's summer accompanied by the music of Windham Hill artist ...

Windham Hill: Water's Path (1984)

This dreamvideo was filmed primarily in California during the months of June and August of 1984. Featuring the music of Windham Hill artists William Ackerman, Scott Cossu, Daniel Hecht, Michael Hedges, Bill Quist, Shadowfax, Ira Stein and George Winston. ...

Wilderness: A Country in the Mind (1984)

Nature is our common impressional and biological ancestor. Its history is now, an open book of essences which we have largely, through the intervention of the industrial state, forgotten how to read. This film is a return to immanence, a restorative immer ...

Aleph (1982)

Omniscient perspectives shoot vibratory gleams through human projectors statically displaced across the screen. Superimpositions at fever pitch falling apart and compressing into new molecular lattices. Peripheral fantasies imagine forth collusioned destin ...

Paris Birth Film (1980)

"Like STREET FILM PART ZERO, PARIS BIRTH manifests with the employment of four projectors running simultaneously with image overlap. The film opens with one projector showing the film-maker's wife walking down a Paris Street. Short bursts of film, flash fr ...

Deep Hearts (1980)

Deep Hearts is a film about the Bororo Fulani, a nomadic society located in central Niger Republic and the title is a reference to an important aspect of these people's thought and demeanor. ...

Street Film Part XVII (1979)

Time-lapse imagery, an Omega watch, a cigarette, single frames, the human hand, personal writings, a soprano saxophone in images and sound, a mirrored self-portrait in motion with the camera, Street Film Part 17 feels like a summary of everything Fulton in ...

Street Film Part VIII (1978)

The final part in the core Street Film series. ...

Street Film Part VII (1977)

Fulton combines cultures and impressions in both black and white and colour. An intriguing sound track with sounds of nature, improvised jazz and Fulton improvising on his saxophone, highlights and deepens impressions of juxtapositions of intense images in ...

Street Film Part VI (1977)

Street Film Part V (1977)

Robert Edison Fulton does some incredible things with time-lapse photography in "Street Film Part V," which imparts surreal staccato movement to mostly moonlit beach scenes in Brazil. Wind-blown palms, wet pavements and sewer grates, surf and sand (some se ...

Street Film Part IV (1977)

"STREET FILM PART IV is an odyssey. In its search for the greater meaning of things, the camera portrays (rather than reports) essential human handiwork. Corn is pressed from the cob by worn thumbs, practiced hands spin twine. Doors open. Cattle are brande ...

Street Film Part III (1976)

Street Film Part II (1976)

Street Film Part I (1976)

"Street Film: Part One" is a metaphor for modern post-industrial life. ...

Street Film Part Zero (1976)

A cascading tapestry of sight and sound, rejecting nothing, clinging to nothing, saturating and ultimately defeating the discriminating mind, until unstructured primary space begins to unfold within the viewer. ...

Path of Cessation (1974)

In PATH OF CESSATION the image that is communicated to us by Fulton is a highly mystifying one. Rather than analyze, or enter into a dialogue with the Tibetan culture that he photographs, Fulton has succumbed to it, and through the process has presented us ...

Mark Tobey Abroad (1973)

Robert Gardner visits the great American painter Mark Tobey in Basel, Switzerland, where he lived for the last years of his life. With remarkable candor and objectivity, Tobey discusses his work and that of fellow artists including Picasso. ...

Chant (1973)

Creates a reorientation of vision in a union of sights and sounds which suggest a different way of appreciating and understanding the fundamental integrity of experience. ...

Eastern Airlines: Mer de Antilles (1973)

Scenes of the Lesser Antilles. ...

River Film (1972)

In River Film, Fulton creates a portrait of the Roaring Fork River and its tributaries, the central artery of life near Aspen, Colorado, where he resided for many years. ...

Inca Light (1972)

An impressionistic film shot in Cuzco, Machu Picchu, and outlying villages of the Andean center of Peru's Inca Empire. Inca Light captures in a fast fluid motion impressions of life today that refer us to the past society that has also dwelled here. ...

Reality's Invisible (1972)

Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton would later serve as a cinematographer on Gardner's 1981 documentary Deep Hearts, among others). Reality's Invi ...

Running Shadow II (1972)

Rapidly changing images of natural objects, scenery, animals, plants, and people flicker, flash, tumble, and cascade across the screen. Running Shadow is Fulton's most dizzying and vertiginous film, in full demonstration of the gyrating flight simulating b ...

Running Shadow I (1971)

Rapidly changing images of natural objects, scenery, animals, plants, and people flicker, flash, tumble, and cascade across the screen. ...

Moonchild (1971)

Moonchild is one of Fulton's very earliest ethnographic projects. Filming in East Africa while on another production, he shoots with single frame bursts from his Bolex camera with an Angenieux 5.9 lens. He could shoot inconspicuously from the hip, an appro ...

The Great Ski Chase (1971)

A hilarious updated version of Hannes Schneider's classic chase film of the 30's. The villain and ski thief, Fred Iselin, is pursued through Vail, Jackson Hole, and Chamonix in France. ...

Nzuri: East Africa (1970)

Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Beginning with Genesis, the film follows the progress of civilization through to modern day Nairobi. Biblical themes combine with pulsating African music, wild animal sounds, and vivid imagery. Unusual juxtapositions ...

The Moebius Flip (1970)

A science fiction fantasy on skis with spectacular glacier skiing, extraordinary acrobatics, unique optical effects, and an original score. The world's polarity is mysteriously reversed, requiring the skiers to regain the realm of normal perception by perf ...

Outward Bound (1970)

Challenges; mental, physical, both? How far can you go? How fast? What's it like to go three days without food and companionship? To run 15 miles, to climb a 14,000 foot mountain, to navigate in dense forest or open ocean, to rappel down a vertical cliff, ...

Starlight (1969)

A Tibetan Lama. His disciple. The disciple's wife, young boy and terrier. An old tugboat crossing the Mississippi River. A man in his seventh month of solitude. His hermitage built by his own hands. The man's bloodhound; his cat. Clouds crossing the Contin ...

Swimming Stone (1969)

Fluidity of stone. Subatomic motion asserting a surface. Mind loop wandering. Visitation of sound matrix. Liquid solid. Nature transforms a planetary cycle. Relations of a timeless void. ...

Outward Bound: Oriana (1968)

San Chien (1968)

Kata (1967)

Nature, gymnastic movements, a cat... ...

Vineyard IV (1967)

Glen Denny observed: "This film is not ocean, it is panther stalking jungle." Camera flows because it is free to move through space. ...

Vineyard III (1967)

Crashing waves, the cry of a gull, silence. ...

Film Diary #1 (Robert Fulton III) (2024)

"I traveled to Albany, NY, and called Robert Fulton and stated that I wanted to come and visit him in Newtown, CT. 'You can't get here from there, look out the window and tell me what the clouds look like,' he said. I described them the best I could and he ...

Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator (2000)

A documentary about a legendary American film maker/aviator Robert Fulton who was contracted by the BBC to film aerial cinematography throughout South America. ...

Reality's Invisible (1972)

Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton would later serve as a cinematographer on Gardner's 1981 documentary Deep Hearts, among others). Reality's Invi ...

Running Shadow I (1971)

Rapidly changing images of natural objects, scenery, animals, plants, and people flicker, flash, tumble, and cascade across the screen. ...

Swimming Stone (1969)

Fluidity of stone. Subatomic motion asserting a surface. Mind loop wandering. Visitation of sound matrix. Liquid solid. Nature transforms a planetary cycle. Relations of a timeless void. ...