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)