Looking for Robert

Richard Copans, filmmaker, cinematographer and founder of the production company Les Films d'Ici in 1984, is one of the central members of Robert Kramer's film family. He has been involved in one way or another in almost all of Kramer's films since Guns. In Looking for Robert, Copans looks back on two decades of close friendship and collaborative work. In the quiet back and forth between photographs blowing in the wind, various working materials and film clips, Kramer's special way of working in films such as Route One/USA, Sous le vent and Point de départ becomes tangible. Inspired by Kramer's working method, Copans succeeds in speaking to and with the filmmaker, rather than about him, by addressing him personally in the form of a filmic letter. Copans: ‘It's a way of remembering the central place he gave to experience in order to avoid the pitfalls of the script. It's also the story of a friendship that changed me.’ (Volker Pantenburg)