Energy and How to Get It

Film

Energy and How to Get It

United States
Director
Robert Frank
Year
1981

Filmed in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fictional ideas. What began as a documentary film about Robert Golka, an engineer who was experimenting with ball lightning and the development of fusion as an energy force, was turned into a spoof on the documentary form, inserting fictional characters into the story such as the Energy Czar (William Burroughs), and a Hollywood agent (filmmaker Robert Downey). (mfah.org)

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Directed by

Robert Frank

Written by

Rudy Wurlitzer