Movie: Home Improvements

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Robert Frank
Robert Frank

June Leaf
June Leaf

Pablo Frank
Pablo Frank

Gunther Moses
Gunther Moses

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    Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship between Frank’s life as an artist and his personal life, and how the two are inevitably intertwined. It was made cheaply with a half-inch video porta-pak. Home Improvements takes place in New York and Nova Scotia and in the mental space between these two opposing worlds

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    1985-01-01

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    Maybe nothing is really true, except what’s out there, and what’s out there is always different.

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