
Robert Nelson
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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.
Known for
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Bleu Shut (1970)
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Deep Westurn (1974)
Director
King David (1970)
Director
Hamlet Act (1982)
Director

Grateful Dead (1967)
Director
Special Warning (1998)
Director
Limitations (1988)
Director
Hot Leatherette (1967)
Director
Sixty Lazy Dogs (1965)
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The Awful Backlash (1967)
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The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off (1967)
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The Great Blondino (1967)
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Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (1978)
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Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon (1967)
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Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley (1976)
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Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba (1965)
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Soup or Spread (1967)
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War is Hell (1968)
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Gourley in 67 (1967)
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1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy (1967)
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Hauling Toto Big (1998)
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T.P.II (1965)
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T.P.I. (1965)
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Oh Dem Watermelons (1965)
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Oily Peloso the Pumph Man (1965)
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Plastic Haircut (1963)
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