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'''Robert C. Banks, Jr.''' (born 1966) is an American [[experimental filmmaker]].
'''Robert C. Banks, Jr.''' (born September 7, 1966) is an American [[experimental filmmaker]].


==Biography==
==Biography==
Banks attended the Cleveland School of the Arts, and has taught film at [[Cuyahoga Community College]], the [[Cleveland Institute of Art]], and [[Cleveland State University]].
Banks attended the Cleveland School of the Arts and has taught film at [[Cuyahoga Community College]], the [[Cleveland Institute of Art]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mishak |first1=Shawn |title='Robert Banks & Dexter Davis: Color Me Bone Face' Opens at MoCa Cleveland This Friday |url=https://www.clevescene.com/arts/robert-banks-and-dexter-davis-color-me-bone-face-opens-at-moca-cleveland-this-friday-38560064 |website=Cleveland Scene |access-date=June 12, 2022 |language=en |date=Mar 16, 2022}}</ref> and [[Cleveland State University]].


His best known work is the 1992 film, ''[[X: The Baby Cinema]]'', a 4.5 minute, [[16 mm]] [[short film]] which chronicled the commercial appropriation of the image of [[Malcolm X]]. The movie appeared on the compilation video ''The Best Of The New York Underground:Year One''.
His best known work is the 1992 the [[mixed media]] [[film essay]], ''X: The Baby Cinema'', a 4.5 minute, [[16 mm]] [[short film]] which chronicled the commercial appropriation of the image of [[Malcolm X]]. It was met with disdain from director [[Spike Lee]] who made [[Malcolm X (1992 film)|the biopic that same year]].<ref>[https://www.spin.com/2021/03/robert-banks-paper-shadows-film-interview/ Robert Banks Is a One-Man Movie Studio - Spin]</ref>


The 1994 feature documentary film, ''[[You Can't Get a Piece of Mind]]'' explores the world of Cleveland musician and Vietnam veteran, [[Dan "Supie T" Theman]].
The 1994 feature documentary film, ''You Can't Get a Piece of Mind'' explores the world of Cleveland musician and Vietnam veteran, Dan "Supie T" Theman.


Banks has had his films shown at the [[Sundance Film Festival]], was named Filmmaker of the Year at the Midwest Filmmakers Conference, and in 2000, he was the honored guest filmmaker in London at the [[BBC British Short Film Festival]].
Banks has had his films shown at the [[Sundance Film Festival]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=DeMarco |first1=Laura |title=Cleveland's hardest working filmmaker: Robert Banks premieres feature film years in the making |url=https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/erry-2018/11/0a6f5ab9a39089/clevelands-hardest-working-fil.html |website=[[The Plain Dealer]] |access-date=June 12, 2022 |language=en |date=November 18, 2018}}</ref> was named Filmmaker of the Year at the Midwest Filmmakers Conference, and in 2000, he was the honored guest filmmaker in London at the BBC British Short Film Festival.


Banks lives in [[Cleveland]], Ohio.
Banks lives in [[Cleveland]], Ohio.<ref>[https://clevelandvoices.org/items/show/1815 ROBERT BANKS, JR. INTERVIEW, 03 DECEMBER 2008 · Cleveland Voices]</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==


* (1989) ''Untitled'' (16&nbsp;mm)
Banks has made some of his works freely available for downloading. See external links section for details.
* (1990) ''Froggy Central'' (16&nbsp;mm)

* (1989) ''Untitled'' (16 mm)
* (1992) ''Eyes'' (16&nbsp;mm)
* (1990) ''Froggy Central'' (16 mm)
* (1993) ''[https://vimeo.com/522143269 X The Baby Cinema]'' (16&nbsp;mm)
* (1992) ''Eyes'' (16 mm)
* (1994) ''My First Drug....The Idiot Box'' (16&nbsp;mm)
* (1993) ''X The Baby Cinema'' (16 mm)
* (1996) ''You Can't Get a Piece of Mind'' (16&nbsp;mm)
* (1994) ''My First Drug....The Idiot Box'' (16 mm)
* (1997) ''[[MPG: Motion Picture Genocide]]'' (35&nbsp;mm)
* (1996) ''You Can't Get a Piece of Mind'' (16 mm)
* (1998) ''Jaded'' (35&nbsp;mm)
* (1997) ''[[MPG: Motion Picture Genocide]]'' (35 mm)
* (1999) ''Outlet'' (35&nbsp;mm)
* (1998) ''Jaded'' (35 mm)
* (1999) ''Embryonic'' (35&nbsp;mm)
* (1999) ''Outlet'' (35 mm)
* (1999) ''Gold Fish Sunflowers'' (35&nbsp;mm)
* (1999) ''Embryonic'' (35 mm)
* (1999) ''Bone Face'' (35&nbsp;mm)
* (1999) ''Gold Fish Sunflowers'' (35 mm)
* (1999) ''Love Rusty'' (8&nbsp;mm/16&nbsp;mm/35&nbsp;mm)
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* (1999) ''Bone Face'' (35 mm)
* (1999) ''Love Rusty'' (8 mm/16 mm/35 mm)
* (2000) ''Rage Against the Dying Light''
* (2000) ''Rage Against the Dying Light''
* (2002) ''Autopilot''
* (2002) ''Autopilot''
* (2003) ''The Devil's Filmmaker: Bohica'' (cinematographer only)
* (2003) ''The Devil's Filmmaker: Bohica'' (cinematographer only)
* (2004) ''A.W.O.L.'' (35 mm)
* (2004) ''A.W.O.L.'' (35&nbsp;mm)
* (2004) ''Banks vs. Barney'' (parody of [[Matthew Barney]]'s ''[[The Cremaster Cycle|Cremaster]]'')
* (2004) ''Banks vs. Barney'' (parody of [[Matthew Barney]]'s ''[[The Cremaster Cycle|Cremaster]]'')
* (2006) ''Cordoba Nights'' (A.K.A. 'A Corboba in Bronston') Directed by Luke and Andy Campbell-(16 mm) (co-director of photography only)
* (2006) ''Cordoba Nights'' (A.K.A. 'A Corboba in Bronston') Directed by Luke and Andy Campbell-(16&nbsp;mm) (co-director of photography only)
* (2019) ''Paper Shadows'' (16&nbsp;mm)<ref>[https://www.cia.edu/cinematheque/film-schedule/2018/11/paper-shadows PAPER SHADOWS|Cleveland Institute of Art College of Art]</ref>
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* (2022) ''Color Me Bone Face''


==Awards==
==Awards==
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* ''Prize Pieces Award'', National Black Programming Consortium
* ''Prize Pieces Award'', National Black Programming Consortium
* ''Best Experimental'' for ''X-The Baby Cinema'' (1993), The First NY Underground Film Festival
* ''Best Experimental'' for ''X-The Baby Cinema'' (1993), The First NY Underground Film Festival
* ''Won Audience Choice Award'' for ''Paper Shadows'' (2019), at the Chicago Underground Film Festival 2020


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Experimental film]]
*[[Experimental film]]
*[[Structuralist film theory]]
*[[Structuralist film theory]]
*[[Collage film]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
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* {{imdb name|id=0052234|name=Robert C. Banks}}
* [http://www.clevescene.com/2007-03-21/news/broke-banks-mountain/ Article: Cleveland Scene]
* [http://www.coolcleveland.com/index.php/Main/CoolClevelandInterviewFilmmakerRobertBanks Interview: CoolCleveland]
* [http://www.anglemagazine.org/articles/Chaos_in_Motion_Film_as_Art_a_2150.asp Interview: Angle Magazine]
* [http://columbusalive.com/2001/20011129/112901/11290110.html Interview: Columbus Alive]
* [http://academic.csuohio.edu/kneuendorf/pictthis/janinstructors/ Bio: Instructor page at Cleveland State University]
* [http://theindiegathering.com/robert_banks.htm Bio: Indie Gathering]
* [http://www.clevelandentertainmentconference.com/ec_panelists.html Bio: Cleveland Entertainment Conference]
* [http://www.moovlab.com/artists/a-f/robertbanks.shtml Bio: Moovlab]
* [http://www.moovlab.com/artists/a-f/robertbanks.shtml Bio: Moovlab]
* [http://www.netribution.co.uk/news/festivals_awards/00-09-brit_short_film_fest.html Festival: 13th Annual BBC British Short Film Festival]
* [http://www.netribution.co.uk/news/festivals_awards/00-09-brit_short_film_fest.html Festival: 13th Annual BBC British Short Film Festival]
* [http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw18/1267.html Festival: 2001 retrospective at Chicago Underground Film Festival]
* [http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw18/1267.html Festival: 2001 retrospective at Chicago Underground Film Festival]
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* [http://www.opensewer.com/banks/main.htm Downloads at OpenSewer -- "Outlet", "Motion Picture Genocide", "Jaded", "Femme Fatale"]
* [http://www.insound.com/cinema/searchvids.cfm?search=robert+banks Downloads at Insound -- "MPG--Motion Picture Genocide" and "X-The Baby Cinema"]
* [http://www.1031films.com/ 1031 Films, Cleveland, OH]


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Latest revision as of 13:30, 2 July 2024

Robert Banks
Born
Robert C. Banks, Jr.

(1966-09-07) September 7, 1966 (age 58)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationExperimental filmmaker

Robert C. Banks, Jr. (born September 7, 1966) is an American experimental filmmaker.

Biography

[edit]

Banks attended the Cleveland School of the Arts and has taught film at Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Institute of Art,[1] and Cleveland State University.

His best known work is the 1992 the mixed media film essay, X: The Baby Cinema, a 4.5 minute, 16 mm short film which chronicled the commercial appropriation of the image of Malcolm X. It was met with disdain from director Spike Lee who made the biopic that same year.[2]

The 1994 feature documentary film, You Can't Get a Piece of Mind explores the world of Cleveland musician and Vietnam veteran, Dan "Supie T" Theman.

Banks has had his films shown at the Sundance Film Festival,[3] was named Filmmaker of the Year at the Midwest Filmmakers Conference, and in 2000, he was the honored guest filmmaker in London at the BBC British Short Film Festival.

Banks lives in Cleveland, Ohio.[4]

Filmography

[edit]
  • (1989) Untitled (16 mm)
  • (1990) Froggy Central (16 mm)
  • (1992) Eyes (16 mm)
  • (1993) X The Baby Cinema (16 mm)
  • (1994) My First Drug....The Idiot Box (16 mm)
  • (1996) You Can't Get a Piece of Mind (16 mm)
  • (1997) MPG: Motion Picture Genocide (35 mm)
  • (1998) Jaded (35 mm)
  • (1999) Outlet (35 mm)
  • (1999) Embryonic (35 mm)
  • (1999) Gold Fish Sunflowers (35 mm)
  • (1999) Bone Face (35 mm)
  • (1999) Love Rusty (8 mm/16 mm/35 mm)
  • (2000) Rage Against the Dying Light
  • (2002) Autopilot
  • (2003) The Devil's Filmmaker: Bohica (cinematographer only)
  • (2004) A.W.O.L. (35 mm)
  • (2004) Banks vs. Barney (parody of Matthew Barney's Cremaster)
  • (2006) Cordoba Nights (A.K.A. 'A Corboba in Bronston') Directed by Luke and Andy Campbell-(16 mm) (co-director of photography only)
  • (2019) Paper Shadows (16 mm)[5]
  • (2022) Color Me Bone Face

Awards

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  • Filmmaker of the Year (2001), Midwest Filmmakers Conference
  • Jury Citation Award for Outlet, Black Mariah Film Festival
  • Prize Pieces Award, National Black Programming Consortium
  • Best Experimental for X-The Baby Cinema (1993), The First NY Underground Film Festival
  • Won Audience Choice Award for Paper Shadows (2019), at the Chicago Underground Film Festival 2020

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Mishak, Shawn (Mar 16, 2022). "'Robert Banks & Dexter Davis: Color Me Bone Face' Opens at MoCa Cleveland This Friday". Cleveland Scene. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
  2. ^ Robert Banks Is a One-Man Movie Studio - Spin
  3. ^ DeMarco, Laura (November 18, 2018). "Cleveland's hardest working filmmaker: Robert Banks premieres feature film years in the making". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
  4. ^ ROBERT BANKS, JR. INTERVIEW, 03 DECEMBER 2008 · Cleveland Voices
  5. ^ PAPER SHADOWS|Cleveland Institute of Art College of Art
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