Anne Charlotte Robertson
Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949–2012) was an American filmmaker who pioneered personal documentary-style filmmaking in the mid-1970s.[1][2]
Anne Charlotte Robertson was born on March 27, 1949, in Columbus, Ohio. When she was eleven she started keeping a diary. Her written diaries evolved into filmed diaries.[3] Robertson began creating films while an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts Boston and received her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art in 1985.[1] Robertson made over thirty short films from 1981 to 1997.[1] Her films covered everyday life, births, deaths and her struggles with mental illness.[4][5] In 2001 she won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Filmmaking.[6]
Robertson's film, Five Year Diary (1981–1997), was filmed over 15 years and has a runtime of 36 hours.[7] The project takes up 83 Super-8 reels and chronicles everyday events, births, deaths, and her mental health.[4] Robertson wanted a multi-media viewing experience of the film with audience members viewing in a "rec-room" setting while also reading her diary, and listening to audio recordings she made.[3]
Robertson died of lung cancer in 2012.[8] The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) acquired Robertson's films after her death.[3]
Filmography[edit]
- Pixelation (1976)
- Spirit of '76 (1976)
- Subways (1976)
- Magazine Mouth (1983)
- Depression Focus Please (1984)
- Talking to Myself (1985)
- Apologies (1990)
- Melon Patches, or Reasons to Go On Living (1994)
- Five Year Diary (1981-1997)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Anne-Charlotte Robertson". CCCB. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ "Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949–2012)". www.documenta14.de. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ a b c Gouws, Anjo-Marí (2020-08-03). "Describing the World Otherwise: Anne Charlotte Robertson's 'Five Year Diary'". Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ a b "Anne Charlotte Robertson Collection - Collection". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ "Anne Charlotte Robertson". Experimental Cinema. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ "Anne Charlotte Robertson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ "ICA | Public Intimacies: Anne Charlotte Robertson's Five Year Diary". www.ica.art. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ "A Tribute to Anne Charlotte Robertson, Film Diarist, 1949 — 2012 – Pleasure Dome". pdome.org. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
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