D. A. Pennebaker

D. A. Pennebaker

출생 : 1925-07-15, Evanston, Illinois, USA

사망 : 2019-08-01

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Donn Alan Pennebaker (July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019) was an American documentary filmmaker.

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D. A. Pennebaker

참여 작품

Ziggy Stardust: 50th Anniversary
Director
Echo Velvet Ltd and The Makers Of will produce and manage a global week of activity that celebrates the re-release of the 50th anniversary edition of Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, with full marketing support from Warner Music and the David Bowie estate. Our version of the film, which features musician Jeff Beck, has never been seen before in cinema.
Tiny Tim: King for a Day
Himself
The story of Tiny Tim’s improbable rise to stardom is the ultimate fairytale - and so is that of his downfall. For a brief time, the shy and truly unusual outsider artist was the biggest star in the world.
The National - 'High Violet' Live From Brooklyn Academy of Music
Director
Concert documentary of The National's performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2010, interspersed with interview footage of the band.
Depeche Mode: Video Singles Collection
Director
The complete collection of Depeche Modes videos.
Robert Drew & Associates at the Museum of Tolerance
Self
In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.
Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker
Himself
A conversation between Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker.
철장을 열고
Director
는 동물 권리 변호사인 스티븐 와이즈의 전례 없는 도전을 다룬다. 그는 동물과 인간을 분리시키는 합법적 장벽을 허물기 위해 침팬지를 아무 권리가 없는 ‘것 thing’으로부터 법의 보호를 받는 ‘사람’으로 바꾸기 위한 첫 번째 소송을 준비한다. (2016년 제13회 서울환경영화제)
재니스 조플린, 열정의 노래
Himself
1970년 27세의 나이로 세상을 떠나기 전까지 늘 새롭고 독창적인 길을 열었던 재니스 조플린은 가장 숭배받는 로큰롤 가수이자 수백만 명을 감동시킨, 비극적이고도 잘 알려지지 않은 인물이다. 이 작품에서 감독은 영화로는 처음으로 복잡하고도 열정적이며, 때로는 궁지에 몰리기도 했던 재니스 조플린의 이야기를 내면과 사적인 측면까지 보여주며 깊이 있게 다루고 있다.
A Venue For The End Of The World
Himself
Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the dangers of audience manipulation and leader worship.
Ricky on Leacock
Self
A 38-year journey that the director began in 1972 as a young filmmaker and, shooting off and throughout many years, the director filmed many and various encounters between Ricky, his friends and contemporaries including Henri Langlois, Jean Rouch, Jean-Luc Godard, DA Pennebaker, Robert Drew, and others. Mixing her own footage with film clips and rare images from Leacock's personal film archives, this film pays homage to the director's mentor and, most importantly, allows him to tell us the story of his long film making career in his own words.
Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales
Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts. With testimonies from Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Edgar Morin, D.A. Pennebaker and others.
Godard Made in USA
Self
Documentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless and his influence and his relationship with American cinema.
Kings of Pastry
Director
The collar awarded to the winners of the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman in France) is more than the ultimate recognition for every pastry chef - it is a dream and an obsession. The 3-day competition includes everything from delicate chocolates to precarious six foot sugar sculptures and requires that the chefs have extraordinary skill, nerves of steel and luck. The film follows Jacquy Pfeiffer, founder of The French Pastry School in Chicago, as he returns to France to compete against 15 of France's leading pastry chefs. The filmmakers were given first time/exclusive access to this high-stakes drama of passion, sacrifice, disappointment and joy in the quest to have President Sarkozy declare them one of the best in France.
리턴 오브 워 룸
Director
1992년 미 대통령 선거 15년 후 빌 클린턴 선거 캠페인 관계자들을 다시 만나 당시 상황을 돌이켜보는 "워 룸"의 속편. 나레이션 없이 관찰하는 '다이렉트 시네마' 방식이 적용된 "워 룸"과 달리 이 작품은 인물들의 인터뷰로 구성된 토킹 헤드(talking head) 방식으로 제작되어 당시에 말하지 못한 이야기들이 담겨져 있다. 또한, 현재 정치 활동가들이 '워 룸' 전략으로부터 어떤 영향을 받았는지 그리고 선거 운동 방식이 시대와 함께 어떻게 변해왔는지도 언급이 된다.
Morris Engel: The Independent
Self
Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel
65 Revisited
Camera Operator
A collection of rare outtakes and performances from Pennebaker's 1965 documentary Don't Look Back.
65 Revisited
Director
A collection of rare outtakes and performances from Pennebaker's 1965 documentary Don't Look Back.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey
Director
This special presentation offers all the remaining footage from Jimi Hendrix's incendiary appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Hendrix classics such as "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze" are delivered in crystal clear sound and vision, with Eddie Kramer (who was Hendrix's original engineer) breathing new life into the audio with a new mix.
Addiction
Director
Assembled by some of the nation's top documentary filmmakers, this centerpiece film in HBO's 'Addiction' campaign features insights from experts on trends and treatments in the ongoing battle against drug and alcohol abuse. This documentary consists of nine segments that focus on case studies and cutting-edge treatments that challenge traditional beliefs about addiction.
Cinema16: American Short Films
Director
CINEMA16 celebrates the short film by showcasing some of the best classic and award-winning shorts on DVD. With over three hours of films CINEMA16: AMERICAN SHORT FILMS is essential viewing for anyone with an interest in the moving image. Films include Gus Van Sant's 1982 adaptation of a William S. Burroughs short story, The Discipline Of DE, Tim Burton's early stop motion animated classic Vincent, George Lucas' USC short Freiheit, Alexander Payne's previously unreleased UCLA graduation short Carmen, Paperboys by Mike Mills, D.A. Pennebaker's Duke Ellington scored Daybreak Express, Todd Solondz's NYU short Feelings, along with Oscar Winner The Lunch Date by Adam Davidson, Stefan Nadelman's multi- award winning documentary Terminal Bar, Joe Nussbaum's cult classic George Lucas In Love and 2006 Sundance Winner The Wraith Of Cobble Hill by Adam Parrish King. Films are subtitled in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese, and include commentaries from many of the directors involved.
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
The Cutman
Executive Producer
A cutman at the end of his career struggles to reclaim his true lifelong job.
World Tour 1966: The Home Movies
With a set of drums and an 8mm color home movie camera, Mickey Jones toured the world in 1966 with Bob Dylan and The Band. He captured on film what became known as "The tour that changed Rock and Roll forever." The booing crowds, the scathing reviews, the stomping feet, the infamous catcall of "Judas!" ... all of this in response to Dylan trading in his acoustic folk guitar for an electric sound. Now, for the first time, drummer-turned-actor Mickey Jones (Sling Blade, Home Improvement), with the help of Director Joel Gilbert, chronicles the legendary 1966 Bob Dylan World Tour through his recently discovered home movies. The updated release includes new, exclusive full-length interviews with Charlie Daniels, Johnny Rivers, 1966 World Tour and Gaslight tapes sound man Richard Alderson, and new insights and revelations by Mickey Jones.
Only the Strong Survive
Director
A film featuring the veteran soul music artists and music of Stax Records.
Down from the Mountain
Editor
On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of sublime beauty. Label executives and soundtrack producers so loved the music of O Brother, Where Art Thou? that they brought it to life as a benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame. Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen loved it so much that they hired famed documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker to record the show for posterity. The concert that unfolded that night was one of the greatest musical moments in the annals of Music City. Performers: John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Chris Thomas King, The Cox Family, Fairfield Four, Union Station, Colin Linden, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, The Peasall Sisters, Ralph Stanley, David Rawlings, The Whites.
Down from the Mountain
Cinematography
On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of sublime beauty. Label executives and soundtrack producers so loved the music of O Brother, Where Art Thou? that they brought it to life as a benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame. Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen loved it so much that they hired famed documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker to record the show for posterity. The concert that unfolded that night was one of the greatest musical moments in the annals of Music City. Performers: John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Chris Thomas King, The Cox Family, Fairfield Four, Union Station, Colin Linden, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, The Peasall Sisters, Ralph Stanley, David Rawlings, The Whites.
Down from the Mountain
Director
On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of sublime beauty. Label executives and soundtrack producers so loved the music of O Brother, Where Art Thou? that they brought it to life as a benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame. Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen loved it so much that they hired famed documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker to record the show for posterity. The concert that unfolded that night was one of the greatest musical moments in the annals of Music City. Performers: John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Chris Thomas King, The Cox Family, Fairfield Four, Union Station, Colin Linden, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, The Peasall Sisters, Ralph Stanley, David Rawlings, The Whites.
Startup.com
Producer
Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the relationship of these best friends. Kaleil raises the money, Tom's the technical chief. A third partner wants a buy out; girlfriends come and go; Tom's daughter needs attention. And always the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine covers. Will the business or the friendship crash first?
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Self
With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival and contemporary footage. Born in 1932 in Brooklyn, busking through the South and West in the early 50s, a year with Woody Guthrie, six years flatpicking in Europe, a triumphant return to Greenwich Village in the early 60s, mentoring Bob Dylan, then life on the road, from gig to gig, singing and telling stories. A Grammy and the National Medal of Arts await Jack near the end of a long trail. What will Aiyana find for herself?
Moon Over Broadway
Director
A documentary portrait of the backstage efforts to stage the play Moon Over Buffalo on Broadway.
Westernhagen: Keine Zeit
Director
Woodstock Diary
Director
Woodstock Diary was originally broadcasted on U.S. TV in August 1994 - in honor of the 25th anniversary of the event. Later it was released on DVD with remastered 5.1 sound. It includes performances not shown in the Woodstock movie but not exclusively. Between the songs there are recent interviews with the producers / organizers of Woodstock Joel Rosenman, John Roberts, Michael Lang, the stage announcer Wavy Gravy and Lisa Law (a member of the Hog Farm who helped out at the festival).
워 룸
Cinematography
1992년 미 대통령 민주당 대선 후보로 출마한 빌 클린턴을 위하여 선거 캠페인을 주도한 선거 운동 전략가 제임스 카빌과 홍보부장 조지 스테파노풀로스를 따르는 다큐. 제니퍼 플라워스 불륜 의혹, 베트남전 병역 거부 등 클린턴에 대한 스캔들이 연이어 터지자 이에 강력히 맞서고자 설립한 '워 룸' 전략으로 미국 선거 운동 방식을 획기적으로 바꾸어 놓는다. 별도의 나레이션 없이 진행되어, 우리는 그저 묵묵히 그 모습을 관찰할 수 있다.
워 룸
Editor
1992년 미 대통령 민주당 대선 후보로 출마한 빌 클린턴을 위하여 선거 캠페인을 주도한 선거 운동 전략가 제임스 카빌과 홍보부장 조지 스테파노풀로스를 따르는 다큐. 제니퍼 플라워스 불륜 의혹, 베트남전 병역 거부 등 클린턴에 대한 스캔들이 연이어 터지자 이에 강력히 맞서고자 설립한 '워 룸' 전략으로 미국 선거 운동 방식을 획기적으로 바꾸어 놓는다. 별도의 나레이션 없이 진행되어, 우리는 그저 묵묵히 그 모습을 관찰할 수 있다.
워 룸
Director
1992년 미 대통령 민주당 대선 후보로 출마한 빌 클린턴을 위하여 선거 캠페인을 주도한 선거 운동 전략가 제임스 카빌과 홍보부장 조지 스테파노풀로스를 따르는 다큐. 제니퍼 플라워스 불륜 의혹, 베트남전 병역 거부 등 클린턴에 대한 스캔들이 연이어 터지자 이에 강력히 맞서고자 설립한 '워 룸' 전략으로 미국 선거 운동 방식을 획기적으로 바꾸어 놓는다. 별도의 나레이션 없이 진행되어, 우리는 그저 묵묵히 그 모습을 관찰할 수 있다.
Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music
Camera Operator
A pioneer in the world of rock-'n'-roll guitar, Chuck Berry has created a legacy that spans decades. Berry performs some of his greatest hits and all-time favorites in this concert video that was filmed on September 13, 1969 at 'Toronto Rock'n'Roll Revival.' The Concert includes the songs "Rock and Roll Music," "Long Live Rock and Roll," "Johnny B. Goode," "Promised Land," "Carol," "Hoochie Koochie Man," "Maybellene," "Too Much Monkey Business," "Reelin' and Rockin'," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "In the Wee, Wee Hours."
Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music
Director
A pioneer in the world of rock-'n'-roll guitar, Chuck Berry has created a legacy that spans decades. Berry performs some of his greatest hits and all-time favorites in this concert video that was filmed on September 13, 1969 at 'Toronto Rock'n'Roll Revival.' The Concert includes the songs "Rock and Roll Music," "Long Live Rock and Roll," "Johnny B. Goode," "Promised Land," "Carol," "Hoochie Koochie Man," "Maybellene," "Too Much Monkey Business," "Reelin' and Rockin'," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "In the Wee, Wee Hours."
디페쉬 모드: 101
Editor
A fascinating documentary focusing on backstage realities of art and business during the British synthesizer band's 1988 American tour.
디페쉬 모드: 101
Director
A fascinating documentary focusing on backstage realities of art and business during the British synthesizer band's 1988 American tour.
Depeche Mode: Live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl
Editor
Depeche Mode's famous 101st and final concert of the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Depeche Mode: Live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl
Camera Operator
Depeche Mode's famous 101st and final concert of the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Depeche Mode: Live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl
Director
Depeche Mode's famous 101st and final concert of the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Shake! Otis at Monterey
Camera Operator
Renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captures Otis Redding in his ascendancy, singing at the historic Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. Comedian Tom Smothers introduces Redding to a crowd that is leaving -- until Redding grabs them with his charged rendition of "Shake." Redding's performance also includes "Respect" (which he wrote), "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "Satisfaction," and "Try a Little Tenderness." Tragically, Redding died in a plane crash six months later. An innovative filmmaker who started in the 1950s making experimental films, Pennebaker garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 1993 for The War Room, his behind-the-scenes look at Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. His other subjects have included Norman Mailer, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie.
Jimi Plays Monterey
Camera Operator
It's no exaggeration to say this might be the most intense and groundbreaking 45-minute performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, even though he was already an established entity in the UK, Hendrix and his two-piece Experience explode on stage, ripping through blues classics "Rock Me Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," interpreting and electrifying Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," debuting songs from his yet-to-be-released first album and closing with the now historic sacrificing/burning of his guitar during an unhinged version of "Wild Thing" that even its writer Chip Taylor would never have imagined. Hendrix uses feedback and distortion to enhance the songs in whisper-to-scream intensity, blazing territory that had not been previously explored with as much soul-frazzled power.
Shake! Otis at Monterey
Director
Renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captures Otis Redding in his ascendancy, singing at the historic Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. Comedian Tom Smothers introduces Redding to a crowd that is leaving -- until Redding grabs them with his charged rendition of "Shake." Redding's performance also includes "Respect" (which he wrote), "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "Satisfaction," and "Try a Little Tenderness." Tragically, Redding died in a plane crash six months later. An innovative filmmaker who started in the 1950s making experimental films, Pennebaker garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 1993 for The War Room, his behind-the-scenes look at Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. His other subjects have included Norman Mailer, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie.
Jimi Plays Monterey
Editor
It's no exaggeration to say this might be the most intense and groundbreaking 45-minute performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, even though he was already an established entity in the UK, Hendrix and his two-piece Experience explode on stage, ripping through blues classics "Rock Me Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," interpreting and electrifying Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," debuting songs from his yet-to-be-released first album and closing with the now historic sacrificing/burning of his guitar during an unhinged version of "Wild Thing" that even its writer Chip Taylor would never have imagined. Hendrix uses feedback and distortion to enhance the songs in whisper-to-scream intensity, blazing territory that had not been previously explored with as much soul-frazzled power.
Jimi Plays Monterey
Director
It's no exaggeration to say this might be the most intense and groundbreaking 45-minute performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, even though he was already an established entity in the UK, Hendrix and his two-piece Experience explode on stage, ripping through blues classics "Rock Me Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," interpreting and electrifying Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," debuting songs from his yet-to-be-released first album and closing with the now historic sacrificing/burning of his guitar during an unhinged version of "Wild Thing" that even its writer Chip Taylor would never have imagined. Hendrix uses feedback and distortion to enhance the songs in whisper-to-scream intensity, blazing territory that had not been previously explored with as much soul-frazzled power.
From the Pole to the Equator
Editor
The title Dal polo all'equatore was first used by the pioneering documentary maker, Luca Comerio, for a compilation film of 1925; it was used again by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi for their film of 1985. Much of the original has been re-worked: the 'found footage' has been re-shot, slowed down, tinted, and re-edited with a sound track of minimalist composition. As a result, the exotica of colonial travel and sport take on new and sinister meanings. The acts of violence, especially those of hunting, recur in patterns that suggest visually that war is a logical development. A close examination of the work, starting with the opening sequence of a railway journey, explores the centrality of questions of memory and history to this remarkable and influential film.
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Camera Operator
Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973. British singer David Bowie performs his alter ego Ziggy Stardust for the very last time. A decadent show, a hallucinogenic collage of kitsch, pop irony and flamboyant excess: a musical symbiosis of feminine passion and masculine dominance that defines Bowie's art and the glam rock genre.
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Director
Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973. British singer David Bowie performs his alter ego Ziggy Stardust for the very last time. A decadent show, a hallucinogenic collage of kitsch, pop irony and flamboyant excess: a musical symbiosis of feminine passion and masculine dominance that defines Bowie's art and the glam rock genre.
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
Director
The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover. The final fifteen minutes of the film are the premiere performance in its entirety.
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)
A documentary overview of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
DeLorean
Director
In 1973, John DeLorean was most likely going to be the next president of General Motors, when he turned his back on his $650,000 a year job and focused on a grander dream... to build his own car company (the first new American car company since 1925). In 1978, DeLorean built the most advanced auto factory in the world in under 18 months, from the ground up in a small suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
타운 블러디 홀
Director of Photography
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.
타운 블러디 홀
Producer
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.
타운 블러디 홀
Director
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
Editor
Surrounded by his children, his wife Ethel, and Sammy Davis, Jr., RFK visits schoolchildren around the city, and is every bit the good patriarch and dutiful public servant. But it’s the films’ fleeting, in-between, moments where Pennebaker most precisely hits the mark, offering reflection on the possibilities that Robert Kennedy’s all too brief life foreclosed. Set against the pageantry of a long ago Christmas, the film speaks to tragic contingencies of history lying far beyond the ken of politics that continue to circumscribe the tortured destiny of our country.
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
Cinematography
Surrounded by his children, his wife Ethel, and Sammy Davis, Jr., RFK visits schoolchildren around the city, and is every bit the good patriarch and dutiful public servant. But it’s the films’ fleeting, in-between, moments where Pennebaker most precisely hits the mark, offering reflection on the possibilities that Robert Kennedy’s all too brief life foreclosed. Set against the pageantry of a long ago Christmas, the film speaks to tragic contingencies of history lying far beyond the ken of politics that continue to circumscribe the tortured destiny of our country.
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
Producer
Surrounded by his children, his wife Ethel, and Sammy Davis, Jr., RFK visits schoolchildren around the city, and is every bit the good patriarch and dutiful public servant. But it’s the films’ fleeting, in-between, moments where Pennebaker most precisely hits the mark, offering reflection on the possibilities that Robert Kennedy’s all too brief life foreclosed. Set against the pageantry of a long ago Christmas, the film speaks to tragic contingencies of history lying far beyond the ken of politics that continue to circumscribe the tortured destiny of our country.
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
Director
Surrounded by his children, his wife Ethel, and Sammy Davis, Jr., RFK visits schoolchildren around the city, and is every bit the good patriarch and dutiful public servant. But it’s the films’ fleeting, in-between, moments where Pennebaker most precisely hits the mark, offering reflection on the possibilities that Robert Kennedy’s all too brief life foreclosed. Set against the pageantry of a long ago Christmas, the film speaks to tragic contingencies of history lying far beyond the ken of politics that continue to circumscribe the tortured destiny of our country.
Energy War
Director
Documentary feature. 16mm; color; sound.
Cracked Actor
Thanks
The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of vérité sequences filmed in limousines and hotels, and concert footage. Most of the concert footage was taken from a show at the Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre on 2 September 1974 (Also featured are excerpts from D.A. Pennebaker's concert film shot at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973). Cracked Actor is notable for being a source for footage of Bowie's ambitious Diamond Dogs tour, and also for showing Bowie's fragile mental state during this period.
Little Richard: Keep on Rockin'
Director of Photography
Keep On Rockin', aka Little Richard: Keep On Rockin' (USA video title) is a film of a 1969 Little Richard concert at the Sweet Toronto Peace Festival, originally released in 1970. Richard performs a number of his greatest hits, including "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Long Tall Sally," and "Tutti Frutti." The film is in color.
Little Richard: Keep on Rockin'
Producer
Keep On Rockin', aka Little Richard: Keep On Rockin' (USA video title) is a film of a 1969 Little Richard concert at the Sweet Toronto Peace Festival, originally released in 1970. Richard performs a number of his greatest hits, including "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Long Tall Sally," and "Tutti Frutti." The film is in color.
Little Richard: Keep on Rockin'
Director
Keep On Rockin', aka Little Richard: Keep On Rockin' (USA video title) is a film of a 1969 Little Richard concert at the Sweet Toronto Peace Festival, originally released in 1970. Richard performs a number of his greatest hits, including "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Long Tall Sally," and "Tutti Frutti." The film is in color.
Eat the Document
Camera Operator
Eat the Document is a documentary of Bob Dylan's 1966 tour of the United Kingdom with the Hawks. It was shot under Dylan's direction by D. A. Pennebaker, whose groundbreaking documentary Dont Look Back chronicled Dylan's 1965 British tour. The film was originally commissioned for the ABC television series Stage '66. Though shooting had completed for the film, Dylan's July 1966 motorcycle accident delayed the editing process. Once well enough to work again, Dylan edited the film himself. ABC rejected the film as incomprehensible for a mainstream audience.
Sweet Toronto
Director
Sweet Toronto is a documentary by D.A. Pennebaker of the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, a one day festival held September 13, 1969 at Varsity Stadium on the campus of the University of Toronto and attended by some 20,000 persons. John Lennon played as part of the Plastic Ono Band, whose members also included Yoko Ono, Klaus Voorman, Alan White, and Eric Clapton. The video also features a selection of other acts: Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Bo Diddley.
Up Your Legs Forever
The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.
1 P.M. (One Parallel Movie)
Director
Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was meant to be One A.M., as in “one American movie”; but Godard quit the project and the U.S., where to his dismay he discovered that revolution wasn’t imminent, and Pennebaker edited Godard’s material, to which he and Richard Leacock even added a bit more, releasing the result as One P.M., as in “one parallel movie.” It’s a stunning mixture of cinéma-vérité, political theater, and interviews of key sixties figures.
Maidstone
Director of Photography
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
Original Cast Album: Company
Director of Photography
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.
Original Cast Album: Company
Director
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.
Alice Cooper
Director
Alice Cooper and band’s first performance, organized by his friend Frank Zappa, at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in 1969.
몬터레이 팝
Camera Operator
로큰롤의 새로운 지평을 열었던 몬터레이 팝 페스티벌. 지미 헨드릭스, 재니스 조플린, 사이먼 앤 가펑클, 마마스 앤 파파스, 더 후 등 다양한 팀들이 참가했다. 감독의 다이렉트 시네마 스타일이 돋보이는 이 작품에는 지미 핸드릭스가 기타를 태우는 장면 등 지금은 전설이 된 순간들이 담겨 있다. (2011년 제8회 EBS 국제다큐영화제) 1960년대 보수적인 사회와 기성세대에 맞서 사랑과 평화, 꽃으로 대표되는 히피문화, 이른바 ‘플라워 무브먼트’를 태동시켰던 미국의 젊은이들. LSD와 마리화나, 명상과 공동체 생활로 대표되는 이들의 문화는 60년대말 새로운 저항문화를 형성했으며 1967년 캘리포니아주 몬트레이에서 열렸던 대규모 록 페스티발은 이러한 젊은이의 문화, 대항문화의 시작이었다. 지미 핸드릭스, 재니스 조플린, 사이먼 앤 가펑클, 마마스 앤 파파스, 더 후 등 다양한 팀들이 참가했던 이 역사적인 사건을 다이렉트 시네마 스타일로 담아낸 은 사건으로서의 록 다큐멘터리의 효시가 되었으며 이후 록 페스티발을 기록한 수많은 다큐멘터리들의 전범이 된 작품이다. 특히 지미 핸드릭스가 기타를 태우는 장면 등 지금은 전설이 된 순간들은 세월을 넘어 여전히 강렬하다. (2011년 한국영상자료원 - 樂 & DOCU: 음악다큐멘터리 특별전)
몬터레이 팝
Director
로큰롤의 새로운 지평을 열었던 몬터레이 팝 페스티벌. 지미 헨드릭스, 재니스 조플린, 사이먼 앤 가펑클, 마마스 앤 파파스, 더 후 등 다양한 팀들이 참가했다. 감독의 다이렉트 시네마 스타일이 돋보이는 이 작품에는 지미 핸드릭스가 기타를 태우는 장면 등 지금은 전설이 된 순간들이 담겨 있다. (2011년 제8회 EBS 국제다큐영화제) 1960년대 보수적인 사회와 기성세대에 맞서 사랑과 평화, 꽃으로 대표되는 히피문화, 이른바 ‘플라워 무브먼트’를 태동시켰던 미국의 젊은이들. LSD와 마리화나, 명상과 공동체 생활로 대표되는 이들의 문화는 60년대말 새로운 저항문화를 형성했으며 1967년 캘리포니아주 몬트레이에서 열렸던 대규모 록 페스티발은 이러한 젊은이의 문화, 대항문화의 시작이었다. 지미 핸드릭스, 재니스 조플린, 사이먼 앤 가펑클, 마마스 앤 파파스, 더 후 등 다양한 팀들이 참가했던 이 역사적인 사건을 다이렉트 시네마 스타일로 담아낸 은 사건으로서의 록 다큐멘터리의 효시가 되었으며 이후 록 페스티발을 기록한 수많은 다큐멘터리들의 전범이 된 작품이다. 특히 지미 핸드릭스가 기타를 태우는 장면 등 지금은 전설이 된 순간들은 세월을 넘어 여전히 강렬하다. (2011년 한국영상자료원 - 樂 & DOCU: 음악다큐멘터리 특별전)
Hickory Hill
Director
George Plimpton attends the annual children’s fair of local pets, at the Virginia home of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, with Art Buchwald as ringmaster.
Wake at Generation
Director
An unreleased concert film, shot at the Generation Club on 8th St. in NYC on April 7, 1968. Big Brother & The Holding Co. "Summertime" Joni Mitchell "Sisotowbell Lane" Buddy Guy "Stormy Monday" Jimi Hendrix with Hugh McCracken B.B. King with Paul Butterfield and Elvin Bishop Richie Havens "All Along The Watchtower/Sing This All Together"
Wild 90
Director of Photography
Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.
Wild 90
Writer
Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.
Wild 90
Al
Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.
RainForest
Director
Leacock and Pennebaker filmed choreographer Merce Cunningham’s dance “RainForest” as part of the 1968 Buffalo Arts Festival’s program “Whose Afraid of the Avant-Garde” presenting experimental art, music, dance, poetry and theater. The dance composition also featured music by David Tudor, costumes by Jasper Johns and sets by Andy Warhol.
Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making
Director
Jean-Luc Godard visits the NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate students on filmmaking and politics.
돌아보지 마라
Camera Operator
밥 딜런은 단지 음반 업계에서 사랑받는 포크 가수에 머물지 않고, 우리에게 시적인 가사로 깊이 각인된 존재다. 그의 가사는 모호하고, 그의 음악 스타일은 끊임없이 변했으며, 대중의 관심을 피하는 데 강박적인 태도를 보여왔다. 음악 다큐멘터리의 전설인 "돌아보지 마라"는 훌륭한 콘서트 투어의 기록에 그치지 않고 우리 시대의 가장 영향력 있는 싱어송라이터 중 한 사람인 밥 딜런의 내밀한 초상을 그려낸다.
돌아보지 마라
Writer
밥 딜런은 단지 음반 업계에서 사랑받는 포크 가수에 머물지 않고, 우리에게 시적인 가사로 깊이 각인된 존재다. 그의 가사는 모호하고, 그의 음악 스타일은 끊임없이 변했으며, 대중의 관심을 피하는 데 강박적인 태도를 보여왔다. 음악 다큐멘터리의 전설인 "돌아보지 마라"는 훌륭한 콘서트 투어의 기록에 그치지 않고 우리 시대의 가장 영향력 있는 싱어송라이터 중 한 사람인 밥 딜런의 내밀한 초상을 그려낸다.
돌아보지 마라
Director
밥 딜런은 단지 음반 업계에서 사랑받는 포크 가수에 머물지 않고, 우리에게 시적인 가사로 깊이 각인된 존재다. 그의 가사는 모호하고, 그의 음악 스타일은 끊임없이 변했으며, 대중의 관심을 피하는 데 강박적인 태도를 보여왔다. 음악 다큐멘터리의 전설인 "돌아보지 마라"는 훌륭한 콘서트 투어의 기록에 그치지 않고 우리 시대의 가장 영향력 있는 싱어송라이터 중 한 사람인 밥 딜런의 내밀한 초상을 그려낸다.
Hier Strauss
Director
A film by D.A. Pennebaker
Elizabeth and Mary
Director
A film focusing on a day in the life of two identical twin girls, one of whom is blind and mentally handicapped
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Producer
Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting married to a model named Nena Von Schlebrugge up in Millbrook, New York at the Hitchcock house, where Leary had been carrying on his hallucinogenic revelries for the past year or so after leaving Harvard. It was rumored that this was going to be the wedding of the season, the wedding of Mr. And Mrs. Swing as Cab Calloway put it. Blackwood took me downtown to meet Monte Rock III who was singing at Trudy Heller’s but who was also a very pricey and off-the-wall hairdresser and was in fact going to be doing the bride’s hair. Nena’s brother, Bjorn, known as the “Baron” was a friend of the Hitchcock’s, as was I, and the idea of going along and filming the wedding seemed not unwarranted. I’ve always wanted to film someone getting married."
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Editor
Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting married to a model named Nena Von Schlebrugge up in Millbrook, New York at the Hitchcock house, where Leary had been carrying on his hallucinogenic revelries for the past year or so after leaving Harvard. It was rumored that this was going to be the wedding of the season, the wedding of Mr. And Mrs. Swing as Cab Calloway put it. Blackwood took me downtown to meet Monte Rock III who was singing at Trudy Heller’s but who was also a very pricey and off-the-wall hairdresser and was in fact going to be doing the bride’s hair. Nena’s brother, Bjorn, known as the “Baron” was a friend of the Hitchcock’s, as was I, and the idea of going along and filming the wedding seemed not unwarranted. I’ve always wanted to film someone getting married."
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Camera Operator
Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting married to a model named Nena Von Schlebrugge up in Millbrook, New York at the Hitchcock house, where Leary had been carrying on his hallucinogenic revelries for the past year or so after leaving Harvard. It was rumored that this was going to be the wedding of the season, the wedding of Mr. And Mrs. Swing as Cab Calloway put it. Blackwood took me downtown to meet Monte Rock III who was singing at Trudy Heller’s but who was also a very pricey and off-the-wall hairdresser and was in fact going to be doing the bride’s hair. Nena’s brother, Bjorn, known as the “Baron” was a friend of the Hitchcock’s, as was I, and the idea of going along and filming the wedding seemed not unwarranted. I’ve always wanted to film someone getting married."
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Director
Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting married to a model named Nena Von Schlebrugge up in Millbrook, New York at the Hitchcock house, where Leary had been carrying on his hallucinogenic revelries for the past year or so after leaving Harvard. It was rumored that this was going to be the wedding of the season, the wedding of Mr. And Mrs. Swing as Cab Calloway put it. Blackwood took me downtown to meet Monte Rock III who was singing at Trudy Heller’s but who was also a very pricey and off-the-wall hairdresser and was in fact going to be doing the bride’s hair. Nena’s brother, Bjorn, known as the “Baron” was a friend of the Hitchcock’s, as was I, and the idea of going along and filming the wedding seemed not unwarranted. I’ve always wanted to film someone getting married."
Lambert & Co.
Director
Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.
The Living Camera: Mooney vs. Fowle
Director
The doc brings us back to a 1961 football game played in front of 40,000 people at the Orange Bowl. A high school football game, pitting Miami High against their rivals from Edison High. The title refers to the coaches of each, and the film follows them separately, with their real families and their clan of players, in the days leading up to the big event. And then at last it astonishingly chronicles the game from all kinds of angles you wouldn’t expect from even the newly mobile tools of the Drew crew. Today’s television coverage doesn’t come nearly as close to capturing the spirit of the sport and its fans the way Lipscomb does here. (Nothing But the Doc)
Jane
Director
Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadway.
Susan Starr
Director
Susan Starr is a talented young concert pianist preparing for the biggest competition of her life. She also happens to have a terrible cold that keeps her in bed and an omnipresent mother. Battling against 34 of the most talented pianists in the world at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Susan hopes to win not only prize money in the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Piano Competition, but also the recognition that could launch the musical career for which she has been working since she was three years old. Following Susan through the hectic days leading up to the event and through the competition itself, the film captures the intense reality of an aspiring young artist facing the challenge of her life.
On the Pole: Eddie Sachs
Director
The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapolis 500) in a behind-the-scenes look at the race from his perspective, starting from a week before the race through the day after the big event. You can feel the fervor and anticipation build (*pay close attention to the scaffolding that collapses with too many people on it during the race) as Eddie prepares to keep his place, "on the pole."
Adventures on the New Frontier
Director
A look at the daily business of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, with a focus on some of the political issues he faces six weeks into his term.
Adventures on the New Frontier
Camera Operator
A look at the daily business of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, with a focus on some of the political issues he faces six weeks into his term.
David
Director
During the fertile early years of Drew Associates following the breakthrough of Primary, came this seldom-seen portrait of David Allen, a jazz trumpeter struggling in the Santa Monica drug rehabilitation center Synanon House. Pennebaker’s love of music drew him to David and the film prefigures later portraits such as Dont Look Back. He teamed with Life photographer William Ray and producer Gregory Shuker.
Yanki No!
Cinematography
After the US forces Cuba out of the OAS, demonstrations erupt in Venezuela. In Cuba Castro addresses a rally of one million people.
예비선거
Camera Operator
1960년, 위스콘신주에서의 존 F. 케네디 상원의원과 허버트 H. 험프리 상원의원의 대통령 예비선거 과정을 기록한 이 작품은, 사상 최초로 동시녹음 카메라로 만든작품으로 미국 다이렉트 시네마의 시작을 상징한다. 1960년 로버트 플레허티 상을 수상했다. (2011년 제8회 EBS 국제다큐영화제)
예비선거
Sound Recordist
1960년, 위스콘신주에서의 존 F. 케네디 상원의원과 허버트 H. 험프리 상원의원의 대통령 예비선거 과정을 기록한 이 작품은, 사상 최초로 동시녹음 카메라로 만든작품으로 미국 다이렉트 시네마의 시작을 상징한다. 1960년 로버트 플레허티 상을 수상했다. (2011년 제8회 EBS 국제다큐영화제)
Christopher and Me
Music
Twins Christopher and David gets into an untethered sailboat and inadvertently gets involved in a nearby sailboat race.
Christopher and Me
Screenplay
Twins Christopher and David gets into an untethered sailboat and inadvertently gets involved in a nearby sailboat race.
예비선거
Editor
1960년, 위스콘신주에서의 존 F. 케네디 상원의원과 허버트 H. 험프리 상원의원의 대통령 예비선거 과정을 기록한 이 작품은, 사상 최초로 동시녹음 카메라로 만든작품으로 미국 다이렉트 시네마의 시작을 상징한다. 1960년 로버트 플레허티 상을 수상했다. (2011년 제8회 EBS 국제다큐영화제)
Skyscraper
Director
Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Opening In Moscow
Director
In 1959, George Nelson designed an incredible trade fair to be sent to Russia, a kind of yard sale of things American. Everything from automatic vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, to Polaroid cameras and newly pioneered videotape, as well as books not available under Stalinist rule were represented as the fruits of the capitalist American consumer market. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev held the famous “Kitchen Debates” in a kitchen at the fair.  With dancers and music from Oklahoma, films by Charles Eames and a huge dome by Buckminster Fuller, the Russians got their first glimpse of what was happening on the other side of the Curtain.
American Football
Cinematography
A coach’s whole career depends upon winning this football game, the U.S. Air Force Academy against the University of Colorado. The film was an early experiment by Drew and his Associates to capture real life happening in front of the cameras. They had not yet developed the new equipment that would allow portable sync-sound filming, so they improvised. Drew, who was still a correspondent for LIFE Magazine at the time, was trying to make films that would promote LIFE stories on television. This idea was how Drew had convinced Time-Life to bankroll his fledgling film unit. Although the football story never became a LIFE magazine cover story, it served as a kind of dry-run for a film about another football game covered by Drew and his Associates four years later. That film, “Mooney vs. Fowle,” led by filmmaker James Lipscomb, became an award-winning, groundbreaking documentary.
Brussels Loops
Director
A collection of twenty short films, averaging 2-3 minutes, by various filmmakers depicting American life, intended to be shown in a continuous loop at the American Pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Some releases of the film include ten extra minutes of rough cuts.
Daybreak Express
Editor
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.
Daybreak Express
Director of Photography
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.
Daybreak Express
Writer
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.
Daybreak Express
Director
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.
Baby
Director
I had contrived a scenario in which she ran mindlessly by cages of various animals paying them no heed while they, subject to edited inserts, would appear as excited Stacy observers. I had not fully mastered the tripod and suddenly in the middle of a jerky pan from a drinking fountain the entire tripod is sent flying and never reappears. In fact it has yet to be replaced. Stacy, bored with animals sets out to explore some noises she hears and ends up discovering a merry-go-round. When I finally catch up and help get her up on one of those huge horses for the first time, I see the look on her face, and I know. There’s the film. I should be watching not directing. The unplanned seems to me more interesting always, or at least more possible than the planned. That’s really the film I’ve been trying to make ever since. - D.A. Pennebaker
Bessie: A Portrait of Bessie Schonberg
Director
Interviews and footage document the life and work of dancer Bessie Schonberg.