Robert Fenz

Biography

Robert Fenz was a visionary filmmaker and artist whose dynamic moving images speak directly to his passionate connection to place and the fleeting, untold histories he so skillfully reanimated. Inspired by the great street photography of the 1950s and 1960s and dedicated to shooting film as film, Fenz invented extraordinary beautiful, innovative and often rapturous images that gave vital form to his notion of the cinema as an expressive form able to challenge dominant perceptions of the world. For Fenz cinema did not need sound to give voice to those unwritten chapters of revolutionary change around the world that so fascinated him. While most of Fenz’s films are silent his passion for jazz...