Mingus music in Robert Frank film
An up-coming authorized documentary entitled “Don’t Blink" about photographer Robert Frank (“The Americans”) will include three Mingus compositions: “Nostalgia in Times Square,” “Haitian Fight Song,” and “Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am.”From the early ’90s on, Frank has been making his films and videos with the brilliant editor Laura Israel, who has helped him to keep things homemade and preserve the illuminating spark of first contact between camera and people/places. Don’t Blink is Israel’s like-minded portrait of her friend and collaborator, a lively rummage sale of images and sounds and recollected passages and unfathomable losses and friendships that leaves us a fast and fleeting imprint of the life of the Swiss-born man who reinvented himself the American way, and is still standing on ground of his own making at the age of 90.Sue Ungaro Mingus performed in a Robert Frank's feature film "O.K. End Here," shown at the first New York FIlm Festival.
The film will premiere at the New York Film Festival in October.