Robert Nelson (March 1, 1930; San Francisco – January 9, 2012; Laytonville, California) was an American experimental film director.^[1][2]

Archive

The moving image collection of Robert Nelson is housed at the Academy Film Archive.^[3] The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of Robert Nelson's films, including Grateful Dead, The Great Blondino, and Hot Leatherette.^[4]

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)