Robert Nelson

Robert Nelson

🎞 Director

Born

1 March 1930 (96)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

Born in 1930 to a family of Swedish immigrants, Robert Nelson studied painting until changing his focus to concentrate on filmmaking in the early 1960s. Strong influences included the Bay Area bohemian Beat scene and the improvisatory theatre of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, with which he would ultimately collaborate on several films. His marriage to experimental filmmaker Gunvor Nelson also helped jumpstart his early filmmaking impulse and instigated many films.

Filmography (31)

Hauling Toto Big

1998

Special Warning

1998

Mecca of the Frigid

1988

Limitations

1988

Hamlet Act

1982

Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again

1978

Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley

Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley

1976

Deep Westurn

Deep Westurn

1974

Picasso

1973

Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob

Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob

1971

Bleu Shut

Bleu Shut

1970

King David

1970

Riverbody

Riverbody

1970

Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey

Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey

1969

War is Hell

1968

Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

1967

The Awful Backlash

The Awful Backlash

1967

1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy

1967

Soup or Spread

1967

Gourley in 67

1967

The Great Blondino

The Great Blondino

1967

The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off

The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off

1967

Hot Leatherette

1967

Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon

Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon

1967

Oh Dem Watermelons

Oh Dem Watermelons

1965

Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba

1965

Sixty Lazy Dogs

1965

T.P.II

1965

Oily Peloso the Pumph Man

1965

T.P.I.

1965

Plastic Haircut

Plastic Haircut

1963