in conversation with Film Museum curator Jurij Meden

Robert Kramer began his filmmaking career as an activist who regarded cinema as the most efficient and immediate way to express his political beliefs. After his involvement with the radical US American Newsreel collective and making a series of important political films, he moved to France and reinvented himself as a diaspora filmmaker observing Europe with a set of fresh eyes. Robert Kramer was one of those very rare filmmakers for whom filmmaking was not a profession or a passion to pursue, but simply, and primarily, a way of life, a way of existing in the world. 

Broadcast by Lauren Wagner