Anne Charlotte Robertson

Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949–2012) was an American filmmaker who pioneered personal documentary-style filmmaking in the mid-1970s.[1][2]

Anne Charlotte Robinson was born on March 27, 1949, in Columbus, Ohio. When she was 11 she started keeping a diary and she never stopped. Her written diaries evolved into filmed diaries.[3] Robinson started creating films in the mid-1970s as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts Boston and got her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art in 1985.[1] Robinson made over thirty (short) films from 1981 to 1997.[1] Her films covered everyday life, births, deaths and her struggles with mental illness.[4][5] In 2001 she won The Guggenheim Fellowship in Filmmaking.[6]

Robinson's magnum opus was the Five Year Diary (1981–1997). The project was filmed over 15 years and totals 36 hours.[7] The project takes up 83 Super-8 reels and chronicles everyday events, births, deaths, and her mental health.[4] Robinson wanted a multi-media viewing experience of the film with audience members viewing in a "rec-room" setting while also reading her diary, and listening to audio recordings she made.[8]

Robinson died of lung cancer in 2012.[9] The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) acquired Robinson's films after her death.[3]

References
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  2. "Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949–2012)". www.documenta14.de. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  3. Gouws, Anjo-Marí (2020-08-03). "Describing the World Otherwise: Anne Charlotte Robertson's 'Five Year Diary'". Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  4. "Anne Charlotte Robertson Collection - Collection". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  5. "Anne Charlotte Robertson". Experimental Cinema. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  6. "Anne Charlotte Robertson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  7. "ICA | Public Intimacies: Anne Charlotte Robertson's Five Year Diary". www.ica.art. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  8. Gouws, Anjo-Marí (2020-08-03). "Describing the World Otherwise: Anne Charlotte Robertson's 'Five Year Diary'". Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  9. "A Tribute to Anne Charlotte Robertson, Film Diarist, 1949 — 2012 – Pleasure Dome". pdome.org. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
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