Robert Kramer
Robert Kramer was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor who directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999, most of them political cinema made from a left-wing point of view. Born in New York and educated at Swarthmore College and Stanford University, Kramer was a founding member of the filmmaking collective The Newsreel, established in New York City in 1968. Kramer wrote, directed and starred in the 1970 thriller film Ice, and co-directed the 1975 film Milestones with John Douglas. After relocating to Europe in 1979, Kramer directed the 1982 French film À toute allure, which was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1999, Kramer died of complications from meningitis in a hospital in Rouen, France. In a retrospective essay, academic David Fresko wrote that Kramer's "unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism and antipathy for Hollywood dashed any hopes for his commercial integration into the culture industries", and noted that, in Europe, "he is considered second only to Jean-Luc Godard in the pantheon of political modernists."
Filmography
- FALN
- In the Country
- The Edge
- The People's War
- Ice
- Milestones
- Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal
- Guns
- À toute allure
- Notre nazi
- Diesel
- Doc's Kingdom
- X-Country
- Route One USA
- Contre l'oubli
- Point de départ
- Le manteau
- Walk the Walk
- The Ghosts of Electricity
- ''Cités de la plaine''