Robert Nelson

Known for DirectingBorn 1930-03-01Died 2012-01-09San Francisco, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Riverbody

Grateful Dead

Hauling Toto Big

Mecca of the Frigid

Oh Dem Watermelons

Bleu Shut

The Great Blondino

The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off

Special Warning

Limitations

Hamlet Act

Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again

Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley

Deep Westurn

Picasso

Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob

King David

Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey

War is Hell

The Awful Backlash

Hot Leatherette

Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon

Gourley in 67

Soup or Spread

1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy

Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba

T.P.I.

Sixty Lazy Dogs

Oily Peloso the Pumph Man

T.P.II

Plastic Haircut