Reality's Invisible (1972)
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.
Director: Robert Fulton
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Rudolf Arnheim as Self |
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Stan Brakhage as Self |
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Robert Fulton as Self (voice) |
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Robert Gardner as Self |
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Alfred Guzzetti as Self |
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Toshi Katayama as Self |
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Richard P. Rogers as Self |
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Stan VanDerBeek as Self |
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Richard Leacock as Self |
| Directing | Robert Fulton | Director |