Energy and How to Get It

Year: 1981

Runtime: 28 mins

Language: English

Director: Robert Frank

ComedyDocumentary

Shot in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, the film mixes documentary and fiction. It began as a portrait of engineer Robert Golka, who was studying ball lightning and fusion, but became a parody of the form, adding fictional figures such as the Energy Czar, played by William Burroughs, and a Hollywood agent portrayed by filmmaker Robert Downey.

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