Robert Fulton

Independent filmmakers are given a chance to show and discuss their work on a commercial (ABC-TV) affiliate station.

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Behind the scenes look at the recording of a Dr. Pepper jingle. Commercial work.

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, or sleep in the snow? Teenagers find out in Outward Bound Schools throughout the country. The result is a positive sense of self and the natural environment. The film is fast paced with intentional disregard for time and space continuity. The students tell the story.

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 immersion, and does what film is best at: inducing a mood of informative ecstasy.

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

Independent filmmakers are given a chance to show and discuss their work on a commercial (ABC-TV) affiliate station.

Behind the scenes look at the recording of a Dr. Pepper jingle. Commercial work.

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, or sleep in the snow? Teenagers find out in Outward Bound Schools throughout the country. The result is a positive sense of self and the natural environment. The film is fast paced with intentional disregard for time and space continuity. The students tell the story.

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 immersion, and does what film is best at: inducing a mood of informative ecstasy.

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

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.

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.

No synopsis available yet.

Nature, gymnastic movements, a cat...

Short film by Robert Fulton.

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 of Bob Fulton's quick cuts and Brown's big lens shots of mega fauna and tribal dances mesmerize viewers.

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 of Bob Fulton's quick cuts and Brown's big lens shots of mega fauna and tribal dances mesmerize viewers.

Robert Fulton short film.

11 minutes, 16mm, Color, Silent

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

A portrait of Francoise Gilot.

A portrait of Carlos Vilaro.

Robert Fulton short film.

Crashing waves, the cry of a gull, silence.

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 body-weight balance camera arm as eye he perfected. The landscape where he fully indulges in twists and turns becomes alien, with crashing waves on the soundtrack letting us know that nature always comes out on top.

Short film By Robert Fulton.

Short film by Robert Fulton.

A mix of Fulton's projects depicting the places he lived (Aspen, CO and Paris, France) and those closest to him.

While commissioned to create a promotional film for Outward Bound, an organization dedicated to connecting young people with outdoor experiences, Fulton used extra time and footage to edit together a collection of three films, closer to his style of personal filmmaking.

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 approach he learned from his father, filmmaker Robert Fulton Jr. In Moonchild, he shares his first impressions of Africa.

No synopsis available yet.

1 minute, 16mm, B&W, Silent

While commissioned to create this promotional film for Outward Bound, an organization dedicated to connecting young people with outdoor experiences, Fulton used extra time and footage to edit together a collection of three films (Ahnameke, Huie Whitewater and Oriana), closer to his style of personal filmmaking. This is the commercial work.

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 Invisible could be described as a portrait of the Carpenter Center, yet it is a portrait of an extremely idiosyncratic and distinctive sort. Fulton moves us through the concrete space of the Center’s Le Corbusier-designed building—the only structure by the architect in North America—but, more centrally, presents us footage of students making and discussing their work alongside figures like Gardner, theorist Rudolf Arnheim, artist Stan Vanderbeek, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and graphic designer Toshi Katayama.

"Look to this day, for it is life, the very life of life. In it's brief course, lie all the varieties and realities of your existence."

Part 14 in the Street Film series.

In Geshe Reading, Fulton captured an unedited conversation on spirituality with Geshe Ngawang Wangyal, the lama credited with leading the first buddhist community in the United States. Geshe Wangyal is featured in Path of Cessation, Starlight, as well as a number of Fulton works.

Movement of the body in all forms: dance, discipline, freedom, exploration, and the environment that surrounds it.

"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 branded. A small sparkling plane takes us through the clouds and into the mountains. Everything and nothing is within our grasp. Simple acts are either full of meaning or devoid of meaning. The longest scene in this rarefied look at simple pastimes is of a native woman patting and baking tortillas." - Barbara Kossy

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.

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 seen from an airplane) create fantastic abstract patterns as they flicker across the screen.

Movement of the body in all forms: dance, discipline, freedom, exploration, and the environment that surrounds it.

5 minutes, 16mm, Color, Silent

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.

1 minute, 16mm, Color, Sound

Scenes of the Lesser Antilles.