The Grief and the Photographic in the Cinema of Robert Frank: the Film Life Dances On…

Authors

  • Álvaro Escriche López Escuela de Arte Dionisio Ortiz (Córdoba) Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/ba.46.2024.19113

Keywords:

Robert Frank, Life Dances On..., Grief, Cinema, Photography

Abstract

Photography and cinema are two complementary languages that are based on the same representative tradition, sharing certain visual conventions. Since their inception, both have served as vehicles for the expression of pain, and it is that this has been a state inherent in the condition of the human being throughout its history. It is in the case of the Swiss photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, that we find an example of this expression in the film Life Dances On... (1980), where he pays tribute to his daughter Andrea and his friend Danny Seymour, both deceased in the decade of the seventies. In this way, this article aims to be a gateway to the study of pain, identifying photography and cinema as a strategies of artistic sublimation and reflecting on the photographic in Life Dances On... both inside and outside the film itself.

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Published

2024-12-20

How to Cite

Escriche López, Álvaro. (2024). The Grief and the Photographic in the Cinema of Robert Frank: the Film Life Dances On…. Boletín De Arte, (46), 79–91. https://doi.org/10.24310/ba.46.2024.19113

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