The Robert E. Fulton III Collection

Ongoing access to dozens of experimental films, working prints, commercial works, and home movies created by Robert E. Fulton III.

Access to dozens of experimental films, working prints, commercial works, and home movies created by Robert E. Fulton III.

50 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound

Reality’s Invisible could be described as a portrait of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, yet it is a portrait of an extremely idiosyncratic and distinctive sort. Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by R...

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Path of Cessation (1975): 55 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Starlight (1969): 5 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Geshe Reading (1972): 28 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound

"We are not tricked into the belief that we've visited Tibet by proxy. Here is the wonder of your works, Bob: that you know, alwa...

27 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound

A self-portrait commissioned by French Television, Antenne 2, Paris. Directed by Fabienne Strouve.

This restoration, conducted by scanning Fulton's personal 16mm archival prints in 2018, allows viewers to experience the films digitally in 4K for the first time. Co...

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Part I: 11 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Part II: 20 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound

Rapidly changing images of natural objects, scenery, animals, plants, and people flicker, flash, tumble, and cascade across the screen.

This restoration, conducted by digitally scanning Fulton's personal 16...

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Vineyard I (1967): 1 Minute, 16mm, Color, Sound
Vineyard II (1967): 1 Minute, 16mm, B&W, Silent
Vineyard III (1967): 1 Minute, 16mm, Color, Sound
Vineyard IV (1967): 2 Minutes, 16mm, B&W, Sound
Cows and Leonardo (1967): 3 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Silent
Kata (1967): 2 Minutes, 16mm, Color...

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Alice Fall '69 (1969): 5 minutes, 16mm, B&W, Sound
Alice Film (1971): 11 minutes, 16mm, Color, Silent
Ferret Film (1975): 1 minute, 16mm, B&W, Silent
Beta Structure Space (Unknown): 7 minutes, 16mm, B&W, Sound
Bicycle France (Unknown): 10 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Bob Sax (Unknown): ...

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STREET FILM PART ZERO SERIES
Street Film Part 1: 22 Minutes, 16mm, B&W, Sound
Street Film Part Zero Composite: 34 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Street Film Part Zero Reel 2: 34 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Street Film Part Zero Reel 3: 32 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Street Film Part Zero ...

13 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound

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. Heavy emphasis on single-frame shooting.

This restoration, conducted by scan...

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River Film (1973): 12 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Wilderness: A Country in the Mind (1984): 20 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
The Entropic Mirror (Unknown): 13 minutes, 16mm, B&W, Silent

The natural world serves as a visual focal point for many of Fulton's films, and this selection refle...

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Portrait of Alison Bradford (Unknown): 28 Minutes, 16mm, B&W, Silent
Tai Chi: (1975): 16 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Cabo San Lucas (1978): 9 Minutes, 16mm, B&W, Sound

Movement of the body in all forms: dance, discipline, freedom, exploration, and the environment that surrounds it.
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Chant (1970): 14 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound

CHANT creates a reorientation of vision in a union of sights and sounds which suggest a different way of appreciating and understanding the fundamental integrity of experience. Flashing images of flowers, mountains, and people.

This restor...

25 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound

A look into the work of master ceramicist Paul Soldner, at his studio in Aspen, CO. Soldner was known as founder for the Andersen Ranch Arts Center and for popularizing an American style of Japanese Raku firing.

This restoration, conducted by scanning Fulton's per...

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Inca Light (1972): 17 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Moonchild (1971): 11 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Nzuri - East Africa (1969): 32 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Eastern Airlines - Mer de Antilles (1973): 12 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Eastern Airlines - Wings of Man (1971): 1 minute, 16mm...

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Outward Bound - Ahnameke: 25 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Outward Bound - Huie Whitewater: 17 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Outward Bound - Oriana: 12 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Outward Bound - Summit films: 28 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound

While commissioned to create a promotional film ...

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Aleph (1982): 17 minutes, 16mm, B&W, Sound

A combination of techniques Fulton honed over the years: single frame shooting, layered exposures, images of nature bearing over the human body. Mountains, the ocean, a mother and child.

This restoration, conducted by scanning Fulton's perso...

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Paris Birth Film Composite (1979): 44 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Paris Birth Film Reel 1 (1979): 39 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Paris Birth Film Reel 2 (1979): 34 minutes, 16mm, Color, Silent
Paris Birth Film Reel 3 (1979): 44 minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound
Paris Birth Film Reel 4 (1979)...

15 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Silent

A portrait of the Uruguayan abstract artist, potentially unfinished film. Circa 1970's/80's.

This restoration, conducted by scanning Fulton's personal 16mm archival prints in 2018, allows viewers to experience the films digitally in 4K for the first time. Color h...

28 Minutes, 16mm, Color, Sound

A classic comedic ski film from Summit Films, directed by Roger Brown and Barry Corbet. Fulton acted as the editor and cameraman. This is Fulton's personal print of the film, but was heavily pink-shifted from decades of dye-decay on the film stock. Archivists have ...