Locomotion

Locomotion

Anne Charlotte Robertson

US
1981
Short film
5’
Focus

»A performance about insanity and real anger against the psychiatric system, the clinics. The onset was this: a lecture on Women and Film given by Nancy Sugarman at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Students and uninvited guests also took part at the event. Before filming, I ›got myself into the right mood‹ by imagining all kinds of terrible things, to generate in me this anxiety and paranoia – just how I had them before and after these places of hell, the psychiatric clinics.«
– Anne Charlotte Robertson

Film programme Diary Film Excess – Homage to Anne Charlotte Robertson

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Anne Charlotte Robertson

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Harvard Film Archive

Anne Charlotte Robertson

Anne Charlotte Robertson was a Super 8 film-maker and diarist who lived in Framingham, Massachusetts. She began making films in the mid-1970s as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and earned her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art. Her main work is the 38-hour opus Five Year Diary which she began in 1981 and kept for over five years. Each episode of the diary, spanning varying numbers of days, is 27 minutes long (approximately eight camera rolls) and the diary comprises 84 reels. In addition to the Five Year Diary, she also made over 30 other short films.


Films by Anne Charlotte Robertson (Selection)
A Short Affair (and) Going Crazy 1982/1996 | A Breakdown (and) after the Mental Hospital 1982/1991 | Apologies 1983–1990 | Locomotion 1981