Arena (1975)

Last Supper: Frank on Frank (1992x14)

Air date: Apr 03, 1992

A self-portrait of photographer and film maker Robert Frank. Often called the "eyes of the Beats", Frank's work spans 45 years - from his influential book of photographs 'The Americans' in the 1950s, to a controversial Rolling Stones documentary in 1972, and a recent photographic assignment in Beirut. For this new film, Frank took personal friends, actors and a film crew to Harlem to create a dramatised exploration of his idea that we all carry a gallery of people in our heads. He believes that a portrait of them is a portrait of the person who chooses to remember them.