Robert Fulton
Also Known As: Robert E. Fulton III, Bob Fulton, Robert Edison Fulton III
Biography: Robert Fulton was a professional pilot and aerial cinematographer in addition to making his own documentary and experimental films. Filming in the United States, the Andes, Nepal, Africa, and elsewhere, Fulton often combined places and images to create dream-like flows of thoughts and associations. The exquisite kinetic rhythms of his camera movements and his editing, as well as his use of superimpositions, create lyrical and breathtaking visions with Fulton’s travelling camera embodying both internal and external journeys.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
Adult: No
Deathday: May 30, 2002
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Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator

Overview: A documentary about a legendary American film maker/aviator Robert Fulton who was contracted by the BBC to film aerial cinematography throughout South America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-01
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Swimming Stone

Overview: Fluidity of stone. Subatomic motion asserting a surface. Mind loop wandering. Visitation of sound matrix. Liquid solid. Nature transforms a planetary cycle. Relations of a timeless void.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Reality's Invisible

Overview: Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton would later serve as a cinematographer on Gardner’s 1981 documentary Deep Hearts, among others). Reality’s Invisible could be described as a portrait of the Carpenter Center, yet it is a portrait of an extremely idiosyncratic and distinctive sort. Fulton moves us through the concrete space of the Center’s Le Corbusier-designed building—the only structure by the architect in North America—but, more centrally, presents us footage of students making and discussing their work alongside figures like Gardner, theorist Rudolf Arnheim, artist Stan Vanderbeek, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and graphic designer Toshi Katayama.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-19
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Running Shadow

Overview: Rapidly changing images of natural objects, scenery, animals, plants, and people flicker, flash, tumble, and cascade across the screen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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Film Diary #1 (Robert Fulton III)

Overview: "I traveled to Albany, NY, and called Robert Fulton and stated that I wanted to come and visit him in Newtown, CT. 'You can’t get here from there, look out the window and tell me what the clouds look like,' he said. I described them the best I could and he said, 'Meet me at Butler Aviation at the Albany airport, I will fly there in my plane and pick you up.' This film is a short homage to Bob and his family during the weekend I stayed at the Fulton Estate in Newtown." — DA
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-01
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It Could Be Good, It Could Be Bad

Overview: Robert Fulton asked me to join him to do aerial photography in the Southern Chilean Andes. We rigged microphones to record what we were saying to each other as we flew among these extraordinary formations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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Still Journey On

Overview: An unfinished examination of life by Robert Gardner
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-28
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