Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank

  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Gerald Fox
  • United Kingdom 2005
  • 85 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Robert Frank, an immigrant himself, defined America and its people in 1959 with his pictures of everyday life, The Americans. After providing the template for viewing his adopted country, Frank later turned the camera on himself with films about himself and his children – his daughter died in a plane crash, his troubled son would kill himself. In 2005, Gerald Fox first presented his film of Frank speaking frankly about his life and career, and about the transformation of his beloved New York. Yet the film was shelved after a few festival screenings when Frank withdrew permission to use his images. Frank changed his mind last year, and the documentary about a visionary photographer and a wounded man has found the audiences that it deserves.

Filmography: Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's (2017), Marc Quinn - Making Waves (2014), Mother's Milk (2011), Sitting Ducks (2003).


  • Director Gerald Fox
  • Production Gerald Fox
  • Cinematography Robert Hannah, Kyle Cameron
  • Editing Steve Scales
  • With Robert Frank
  • Source Gerald Fox