Robert Kramer
Walk the Walk (vol. 5)
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Add rightsFormat Blu-ray, DVD Interzone
Original format 35mm, 16mm, video
Year 1982-1996
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Robert Kramer
Author(s) Robert Kramer, Saïd Ould-Khelifa, Adriano Aprà
Subtitles French, English, German
Booklet 56 pages (French, English)
Running time 190 min
Films
WALK THE WALK (1996) 115'
À TOUTE ALLURE (1982) 61'
LA ROUE : GREG LEMOND (1993) 7'
LA ROUE : ANDREW HAMPSTEN (1993) 7'
Description
Robert Kramer's cinema explores forms of life, where every form of life involves bodies, gestures, movements: an athleticism, for athletes whose struggle is first and foremost with life itself. Walking, running, roller-skating or cycling—these alone are enough to create characters who carry with each effort their desire to go further. The fiction features À toute allure and Walk the Walk, along with the two shorts from the documentary series La Roue, are distillations of this embodied thinking that runs through all of Kramer's films. Seeing the world requires setting out on a journey, and setting out requires a vitality that cinema must participate in, so that filming and living can truly merge.
"It's not the world that cinema has created within our world that interests me, that separate world that often resembles a museum. No, I'm more concerned with people who drown in the detail of what surrounds them. The confusion, the chaos where things really happen."
— Robert Kramer