"Being famous is likeold newspapers blowing down Bleecker Street," Robert Frank muses(quoting Kerouac), staring, camera in hand, out his window at newspapersblowing down Bleecker Street. In Fire in the East, we are given aportrait of the artist as an evolving spirit, a thinker as well as adoer, a self-critical analyst as well as an estimable influence onAmerican art. Filmmakers Philip Brookman and Amy Brookman approach theirsubject with a critical passion, an insider's understanding thatinfluences each choice of photograph or film clip, interview or edit.Fire in the East paints a picture of the times in which Robert Frankemerged on the American scene-"a world of change, of flux...a lot ofpeople were living in an underground world without realizing it" (Emilede Antonio); "the sadness of it made us laugh" (Louis Faurer). This isgracefully incorporated into a critical and chronological overview ofthe evolution of Frank's work.