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Completed in 2004, Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank was the first ever feature-length documentary about the legendary Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker. Originally deemed too personal to be shown widely, the film has just been authorized by Frank for theatrical release. Shot in cinema-verité style between New York and Nova Scotia, where Frank now lives, the film captures Frank reflecting on a lifetime of image making that most famously produced “The Americans,” probably the most influential photographic book of the last sixty years. From the Lower East Side to Coney Island, Frank revisits places where he lived and photographed, unsentimentally yet humorously noting the erosion of the New York he once knew. Affectionate conversations with Frank’s second wife, the vibrant artist June Leaf, reveal decades of closeness, creative exchange and support through the intense tragedies of Frank’s life. In rare moments of vulnerability, Frank speaks movingly about these tragedies and his attempts to cope through his deeply personal photography and films. Unembellished and unflinching, this portrait captures the life and art of one of the most significant and uncompromising artists of the 20th century.

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“In many organizations there is hardly time for lunch, let alone assessing the past. Appropriate reflection is the nourishment that feeds our future. Without it, how can we be sure of the ground from which we wish to move forward? As the saying goes: ‘If you don’t know where you’ve been, or where you are, how the hell can you know where you want to go?’

Of course, there will be the practical assessment. We will know the figures, and the statistical analysis against the projections. But how often do we take time to tell the story of the past? Not the result but the process, not the ‘what’ but the ‘why’ and the ‘how’? Wherever we are and whatever we do, we are all, always, part of a story. Human beings have always passed on knowledge this way; stories are storehouses of wisdom that can teach and inspire us. There is not a day goes by that we do not tell, hear, read or see a story, from children, partners, friends, or the media. But we go to work and start reporting facts and speaking in acronyms. A leader who does not know what story he or she is in, and where they are within it, is missing an essential route to inspiration.”

- Richard Olivier, Inspirational Leadership, Henry V and the Muse of Fire, p. 10

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