Robert Nelson (filmmaker)
# Robert Nelson (filmmaker)

Robert Nelson (March 1, 1930; San Francisco – January 9, 2012; Laytonville, California) was an American experimental film director.

## Archive

The moving image collection of Robert Nelson is housed at the Academy Film Archive. The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of Robert Nelson's films, including Grateful Dead, The Great Blondino, and Hot Leatherette.

## Selected filmography

* Building Muir Beach House (1961, with Gunvor Nelson)
* Last Week at Oona's Bath (1962, with Gunvor Nelson)
* The Mystery of Amelia Air-Heart Solved (1962)
* King Ubu (1963)
* Plastic Haircut (1963, with William T. Wiley, R.G. Davis, Robert H. Hudson, Steve Reich)
* Oh Dem Watermelons (1965)
* Confessions of a Black Mother-Succuba (1965)
* Oily Peloso the Pumph Man (1965)
* Thick Pucker (1965)
* Sixty Lazy Dogs (1965)
* Half-Open and Lumpy (1967)
* Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon (1967)
* Superspread (1967)
* The Beard (1967)
* Portrait of Gourley (1967)
* The Off Handed Jape (1967, with William T. Wiley)
* Hot Leatherette (1967)
* The Great Blondino (1967, with William T. Wiley)
* Grateful Dead (1967)
* The Awful Backlash (1967, with William Allan)
* War is Hell (1968, with William Allan)
* What Do You Talk About? (1969, with William T. Wiley)
* Bleu Shut (1970)
* King David (1970/73/2003, with Mike Henderson)
* R.I.P. (1970/74/2003)
* No-More (1971, with various students at Cornell University)
* Worldly Woman (1973, with Mike Henderson)
* Deep Westurn (1974)
* Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood Via Death Valley (1976)
* Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (1978)
* Hamlet Act (1982)
* Limitations (1988)
* Curious Native Customs (1989)
* 199 L.la (1989)
* Hauling Toto Big (1997)
* Special Warning (1998)
