Robert Banks (filmmaker)
Robert C. Banks, Jr. (born September 7, 1966) is an American experimental filmmaker.
Robert Banks | |
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| Born | Robert C. Banks, Jr. September 7, 1966 |
| Occupation | Experimental filmmaker |
Biography
Banks attended the Cleveland School of the Arts and has taught film at Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Institute of Art,[1] and Cleveland State University.
His best known work is the 1992 the mixed media film essay, X: The Baby Cinema, a 4.5 minute, 16 mm short film which chronicled the commercial appropriation of the image of Malcolm X. It was met with disdain from director Spike Lee who made the biopic that same year.[2]
The 1994 feature documentary film, You Can't Get a Piece of Mind explores the world of Cleveland musician and Vietnam veteran, Dan "Supie T" Theman.
Banks has had his films shown at the Sundance Film Festival,[3] was named Filmmaker of the Year at the Midwest Filmmakers Conference, and in 2000, he was the honored guest filmmaker in London at the BBC British Short Film Festival.
Filmography
- (1989) Untitled (16 mm)
- (1990) Froggy Central (16 mm)
- (1992) Eyes (16 mm)
- (1993) X The Baby Cinema (16 mm)
- (1994) My First Drug....The Idiot Box (16 mm)
- (1996) You Can't Get a Piece of Mind (16 mm)
- (1997) MPG: Motion Picture Genocide (35 mm)
- (1998) Jaded (35 mm)
- (1999) Outlet (35 mm)
- (1999) Embryonic (35 mm)
- (1999) Gold Fish Sunflowers (35 mm)
- (1999) Bone Face (35 mm)
- (1999) Love Rusty (8 mm/16 mm/35 mm)
- (2000) Rage Against the Dying Light
- (2002) Autopilot
- (2003) The Devil's Filmmaker: Bohica (cinematographer only)
- (2004) A.W.O.L. (35 mm)
- (2004) Banks vs. Barney (parody of Matthew Barney's Cremaster)
- (2006) Cordoba Nights (A.K.A. 'A Corboba in Bronston') Directed by Luke and Andy Campbell-(16 mm) (co-director of photography only)
- (2019) Paper Shadows (16 mm)[5]
- (2022) Color Me Bone Face
Awards
- Filmmaker of the Year (2001), Midwest Filmmakers Conference
- Jury Citation Award for Outlet, Black Mariah Film Festival
- Prize Pieces Award, National Black Programming Consortium
- Best Experimental for X-The Baby Cinema (1993), The First NY Underground Film Festival
- Won Audience Choice Award for Paper Shadows (2019), at the Chicago Underground Film Festival 2020
References
- Mishak, Shawn (Mar 16, 2022). "'Robert Banks & Dexter Davis: Color Me Bone Face' Opens at MoCa Cleveland This Friday". Cleveland Scene. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
- Robert Banks Is a One-Man Movie Studio - Spin
- DeMarco, Laura (November 18, 2018). "Cleveland's hardest working filmmaker: Robert Banks premieres feature film years in the making". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
- ROBERT BANKS, JR. INTERVIEW, 03 DECEMBER 2008 · Cleveland Voices
- PAPER SHADOWS|Cleveland Institute of Art College of Art
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