Born in 1930 to a family of Swedish immigrants, Robert Nelson studied painting until changing his focus to concentrate on filmmaking in the early 1960s. Strong influences included the Bay Area bohemian Beat scene and the improvisatory theatre of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, with which he would ultimately collaborate on several films. His marriage to experimental filmmaker Gunvor Nelson also helped jumpstart his early filmmaking impulse and instigated many films.
Oh Dem Watermelons
Bleu Shut
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off
The Great Blondino
Picasso
The Awful BacklashHauling Toto BigConfessions of a Black Mother SuccubaHot Leatherette
Riverbody
Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob
Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journeyGrateful Dead
Penny Bright & Jimmy WitherspoonSoup or SpreadSixty Lazy DogsGourley in 67
Plastic Haircut1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 LumpyT.P.II
