Robert Nelson
- Directing
- March 1, 1930 · San Francisco, California, USA
- January 9, 2012
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Hauling Toto Big · Director
- Special Warning · Director
- Mecca of the Frigid
- Limitations · Director
- Hamlet Act · Director
- Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again · Director
- Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley · Director
- Deep Westurn · Director
- Picasso · Pablo Picasso
- Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob · Self
- Bleu Shut · Director
- King David · Director
- Riverbody
- Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey
- War is Hell · Director
- Grateful Dead · Director
- The Awful Backlash · Director
- Soup or Spread · Director
- 1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy · Director
- Gourley in 67 · Director
- The Great Blondino · Director
- The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off · Butch Babad, Director
- Hot Leatherette · Director
- Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon · Director
- Half-Open & Lumpy · Director
- The Great Blondino Preview · Director
- Oh Dem Watermelons · Director, Producer
- Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba · Director
- Sixty Lazy Dogs · Director
- T.P.I. · Director
- Oily Peloso the Pumph Man · Director
- T.P.II · Director
- Plastic Haircut · Director