Home Improvements

“Maybe nothing is really true, except what’s out there, and what’s out there is always different.”

1985

29m

DramaDocumentary

Overview

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship between Frank’s life as an artist and his personal life, and how the two are inevitably intertwined. It was made cheaply with a half-inch video porta-pak. Home Improvements takes place in New York and Nova Scotia and in the mental space between these two opposing worlds