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Thursday, Oct 29, 1987
Energy and How to Get It
"Frank's and (Rudy)Wurlitzer's other collaborative film, Energy and How to Get It, 1981,(like Keep Busy) is a similar combination of documentary and fictionalideas. What began as a documentary about Robert Golka, an engineer whowas experimenting with ball lightning and the development of fusion asan energy source, was turned into a spoof on the documentary form. Frankand Wurlitzer inserted several fictional characters into the theme,including the Energy Czar, played by William Burroughs. Again they weretesting the power structure by formulating a characterization of itsinner mind." Philip Brookman, "In the Margins of Fiction: FromPhotographs to Films," in Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia
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