Robert Fenz

Movies

The Night
Director
The night of Marseille seen in a different way
Books
Director
Documentation of a book project by artist Arturo Herrera.
Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
The Sole of the Foot
Director
Borders (and all the politics attending the drawing of borders) exist to keep some people in (citizenship) and others out. This film is an attempt to capture the presence of people otherwise denied the political right to be at home in some place that is their home, where they have their roots, where they have their being.
Correspondence
Director
Filmmaker Robert Fenz returned to the locations of three classic films made by the pioneering American ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner. Dead Birds (1964) was filmed in West Papua, Rivers of Sand (1974) in Ethiopia and Forest of Bliss (1986) in Varanasi, India. Correspondence is an elegy for a kind of imagemaking that is in the process of disappearing.
Down There
Cinematography
Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood. She wonders whether normal everyday life is possible in this place and whether filming is a realistic option.
From the Other Side
Director of Photography
A documentary look at the fate of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States.
Meditations on Revolution Part V: Foreign City
Director
An evocative portrait of New York jazz artist Marion Brown.
Meditations on Revolution Part IV: Greenville, MS
Director
Captures the discipline of a boxer preparing for a figh
Meditations on Revolution Part III: Soledad
Director
Shots of streets and subways in New York, Mexico, and San Cristobal de las Casas are intertwined with images of revolutionary figures of the past.
Meditations on Revolution Part II: The Space in Between
Director
Filmed in Rochina, Latin America’s largest shantytown.
Meditations on Revolution Part I: Lonely Planet
Director
Structured as an improvisational homage to Cuba's endurance and captures the serene rhythm of Havana's contemporary street life
Vertical Air
Producer
The film is the result of a close bond between music and cinema testifying the many relationships between the two. It is visualized through American iconographic imagery and graphics combined with the great evocative power of ad libbing by the trumpet player Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.
Vertical Air
Director of Photography
The film is the result of a close bond between music and cinema testifying the many relationships between the two. It is visualized through American iconographic imagery and graphics combined with the great evocative power of ad libbing by the trumpet player Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.
Vertical Air
Sound Recordist
The film is the result of a close bond between music and cinema testifying the many relationships between the two. It is visualized through American iconographic imagery and graphics combined with the great evocative power of ad libbing by the trumpet player Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.
Vertical Air
Director
The film is the result of a close bond between music and cinema testifying the many relationships between the two. It is visualized through American iconographic imagery and graphics combined with the great evocative power of ad libbing by the trumpet player Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.