
Robert Nelson
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Born in 1930 to a family of Swedish immigrants, Robert Nelson studied painting until changing his focus to concentrate on filmmaking in the early 1960s. Strong influences included the Bay Area bohemian Beat scene and the improvisatory theatre of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, with which he would ultimately collaborate on several films. His marriage to experimental filmmaker Gunvor Nelson also helped jumpstart his early filmmaking impulse and instigated many films.
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Bleu Shut (1970)
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Grateful Dead (1967)
Director
Special Warning (1998)
Director
King David (1970)
Director
Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba (1965)
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Deep Westurn (1974)
Director
Hamlet Act (1982)
Director

The Awful Backlash (1967)
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Oh Dem Watermelons (1965)
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Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (1978)
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Sixty Lazy Dogs (1965)
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Oily Peloso the Pumph Man (1965)
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Gourley in 67 (1967)
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Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley (1976)
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T.P.II (1965)
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The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off (1967)
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T.P.I. (1965)
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War is Hell (1968)
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The Great Blondino (1967)
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Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon (1967)
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Limitations (1988)
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1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy (1967)
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Plastic Haircut (1963)
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Hot Leatherette (1967)
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Hauling Toto Big (1998)
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Soup or Spread (1967)
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