title: Robert Nelson (filmmaker)
text: # 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)
  