Anne Charlotte Robertson Movies
- 1997
Five-Year Diary
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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...
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- 1982
Five Year Diary, Reel 9: Happy Birthday ’33 (March 17–27, 1982)
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Pixilation. Sleeping, cooking, resolving to quit smoking. (Liz Coffey)
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- 1982
Five Year Diary, Reel 3: Christmas 1981 New Year 1982 (December 22, 1981–January 9, 1982)
Five Year Diary, Reel 3: Christmas 1981 New Year 1982 (December 22, 1981–January 9, 1982)01982HD
The first of many year-end holiday reels. Cooking, cleaning, pixilation. (Liz Coffey)
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- 1981
Locomotion
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Overdoses, breakdown, and rage at system in a stylized mental hospital isolation room.
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- 1995
Five Year Diary, Reel 81: Mourning Emily (September 27, 1994–January 29, 1995)
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Anne mourns the death of her young niece, Emily. (Liz Coffey)
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- 1976
Subways
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Super 8mm. Black and white. Sound. 13 minutes.
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- 1985
Kafka Kamera
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Super 8mm. Colour. Sound. 3 minutes.
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- 1983
Five Year Diary, Reel 26: First Semester Graduate School (February 28–May 20, 1983)
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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...
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- 1984
Five Year Diary, Reel 40: Visiting Grandmother ‘84, Wyoming (July 17–August 26, 1984)
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Anne travels west with her camera to visit family. (Liz Coffey)
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- 1984
Depression Focus Please
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“Intended as a longer film, this proved sufficient to vignette the nuances of my sadness.” -Anne Charlotte Robertson
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- 1981
Five Year Diary, Reel 2: The Definitions of Fat and Thin (December 13–22, 1981)
Five Year Diary, Reel 2: The Definitions of Fat and Thin (December 13–22, 1981)01981HD
Anne consults the dictionary in this one – what is “fat?” what is “thin?” Inanimate objects are animated, and Anne experiences problems with her camer...
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- 1981
Five Year Diary, Reel 1: The Beginning Thanksgiving (November 3–December 13, 1981)
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Vegetarianism, bingeing, Thanksgiving with parents. (ACR)
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- 1986
Five Year Diary, Reel 47: I Thought the Film Would End (October 21–November 2, 1986)
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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, drinkin...
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- 1997
Five Year Diary, Reel 83: Untitled (December 24, 1995–March 18, 1997)
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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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- 1990
Apologies
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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...
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- 1983
Magazine Mouth
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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....
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- 1985
Talking to Myself
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A MassArt student film that finds Robertson experimenting with the complex multiple voices that would play a major role in "Five Year Diary".
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- 2001
My Cat, My Garden, and 9/11
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- 1976
Pixillation
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Recently restored by the Harvard Film Archive, Pixillation is an astonishing and disarming work of self-portraiture by the late, acclaimed film-diaris...
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- 1983
Five Year Diary, Reel 31: Niagara Falls (August 19–28, 1983)
Five Year Diary, Reel 31: Niagara Falls (August 19–28, 1983)01983HD
Anne takes a road trip to Niagara Falls trip with her family in this exceptionally beautiful Diary reel. (Liz Coffey)
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