Anne Charlotte Robertson Trailers
My Cat, My Garden, and 9/11 TrailerFive Year Diary, Reel 83: Untitled (December 24, 1995–March 18, 1997) TrailerFive-Year Diary Trailer
Most Popular Anne Charlotte Robertson Trailers
Total trailers found: 120
Five Year Diary, Reel 9: Happy Birthday ’33 (March 17–27, 1982) Trailer (1982)
27 March 1982
Pixilation. Sleeping, cooking, resolving to quit smoking. (Liz Coffey)
Five Year Diary, Reel 83: Untitled (December 24, 1995–March 18, 1997) Trailer (1997)
18 March 1997
It’s been 16 years, and finally the Diary ends, an unintended ending that visits familiar territory.
Five Year Diary, Reel 31: Niagara Falls (August 19–28, 1983) Trailer (1983)
28 August 1983
Anne takes a road trip to Niagara Falls trip with her family in this exceptionally beautiful Diary reel.
Five Year Diary, Reel 3: Christmas 1981 New Year 1982 (December 22, 1981–January 9, 1982) Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
The first of many year-end holiday reels. Cooking, cleaning, pixilation. (Liz Coffey)
Magazine Mouth Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Among Robertson’s most accomplished animated works is this collage film inspired by her struggles with binge eating and obsessive magazine collecting.
To My Family and Friends: Will and Testament Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Mini-DV. Details and duration unknown.
Locomotion Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
Overdoses, breakdown, and rage at system in a stylized mental hospital isolation room.
Depth of Field Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Super 8mm. Colour. Sound. 13 minutes. Possibly incomplete.
With Clothes Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Super 8mm. Colour. Silent with tape, and with in-person performance. 17 minutes.
Rotting Pumpkin Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Super 8mm. Colour. Silent, or with live narration. 13 minutes.
Letter to the Rabbi, the Ayatollah, and the Pope Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Mini-DV. Details and duration unknown.
Five Year Diary, Reel 23: A Breakdown (and) After the Mental Hospital (September 1–December 13, 1982) Trailer (1982)
13 December 1982
Introduction; paranoia about root vegetables; esoteric sign language; searching for hidden significances; crush on Tom Baker ("Doctor Who" from BBC Television); my cats Amy and Buddy; vegetarian cooking; the compost heap; my mother and her house; driving into Boston; unemployment; television hypervigilance; hiding inside; exorcism with tea and mirror and lamps; too much wine; my friend the painter Susan Brown; the movie The Turning Point; experiences in a mental hospital; psychiatric session recording; autumn street and garden scenes; the mental day-hospital; domestic still-lives; bingeing; self Gestalt-therapy; school; groceries; winter; my garden; a series of self-portraits.
My Obsession Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
Super 8mm. Colour. Sound on film and with live narration. 24 min.
The Nude Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Super 8mm. Colour. Silent with tape, and with in-person performance.
Five Year Diary, Reel 40: Visiting Grandmother ‘84, Wyoming (July 17–August 26, 1984) Trailer (1984)
26 August 1984
Anne travels west with her camera to visit family. (Liz Coffey)
Five Year Diary, Reel 26: First Semester Graduate School (February 28–May 20, 1983) Trailer (1983)
20 May 1983
Two years into the Diary, Anne began graduate school at Massachusetts College of Art. Reel 26 was shot silently; the soundtrack is an audio recording she made during a graduate review.
Five Year Diary, Reel 64: Visiting Grandmother ’88 (August 29–September 25, 1988) Trailer (1988)
25 September 1988
Five Year Diary, Reel 5: Mourning (January 23–30, 1982) Trailer (1982)
30 January 1982
Reel 5: Mourning (23 to 30 January 1982) follows in the wake of the death of Richard Robertson, the filmmaker’s father.
Five Year Diary, Reel 76: Fall to Spring (October 30, 1991–March 28, 1992) Trailer (1992)
28 March 1992
Apologies Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
Short film of filmmaker Anne Charlotte Robertson apologizing to the camera for everything-- From drinking non-organic coffee, to returning her camera a day late, to smoking and damaging her lungs; She apologizes to the audience for her thoughts, her apologies, herself.
Five-Year Diary Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Influenced by filmmakers as diverse as Ed Pincus and Carolee Schneemann, Anne Charlotte Robertson was a Boston area Super 8 filmmaker who examined and shared her life through her work – a mix of essay, performance and stop-motion animation.
Five Year Diary, Reel 44: Last Semester of Graduate School (August 27–December 13, 1985) Trailer (1985)
13 December 1985
Suicide Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
"I made a film about suicide illustrating some of the ways I thought I’d kill myself, and literally edited it in about an hour and a half and screened it, and as I watched the film, the suicide voices stopped in my head and they haven’t come back since.
Five Year Diary, Reel 1: The Beginning Thanksgiving (November 3–December 13, 1981) Trailer (1981)
13 December 1981
Vegetarianism, bingeing, Thanksgiving with parents. (ACR)
Five Year Diary, Reel 33: A Crush on Doctor Who (October 12–November 18, 1983) Trailer (1983)
18 November 1983
Five Year Diary, Reel 6: The Lights of the Bardo (January 30–February 26, 1982) Trailer (1982)
26 February 1982
Five Year Diary, Reel 47: I Thought the Film Would End (October 21–November 2, 1986) Trailer (1986)
02 November 1986
The would-be penultimate Diary reel. Anne ruminates about the upcoming end of the Diary – and mourns it, of course.
Five Year Diary, Reel 56: Christmas ‘87, New Year ’88 (November 21, 1987–January 22, 1988) Trailer (1988)
22 January 1988
Five Year Diary, Reel 41: California, Massachusetts & Wyoming (August 28–December 25, 1984) Trailer (1984)
25 December 1984
Five Year Diary, Reel 2: The Definitions of Fat and Thin (December 13–22, 1981) Trailer (1981)
22 December 1981
Anne consults the dictionary in this one – what is “fat?” what is “thin?” Inanimate objects are animated, and Anne experiences problems with her camera.
Five Year Diary, Reel 59: BIG RELIGIOUS/POLITICAL LETTER (May 4–22, 1988) Trailer (1988)
22 May 1988
Five Year Diary, Reel 49: Lunar Phases (November 8–December 5, 1986) Trailer (1986)
05 December 1986
Depression Focus Please Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
“Intended as a longer film, this proved sufficient to vignette the nuances of my sadness.” -Annn
