- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- February 4, 1963
- Place of Birth
- California, U.S.
Harrod Blank
Harrod Blank is a California native who grew up in the Bonny Doon Mountains of Santa Cruz, where he attended high school and college. In 1989, he moved to Berkeley, where he currently lives part-time. When Harrod Blank first realized that his '65 VW Beetle could be treated as a canvas, the result was "Oh My God!". Painted like a beach ball with a bumper of plastic fruit & rubber chickens, a chalkboard on back and a TV on the roof, the car was the catalyst for his remarkable career. Initially, Blank thought he was the only one in the world with an Art Car, and at times felt quite alienated. This would change, as he gradually learned from supporters that there were other such cars, spread out across the country. Drawing from what he had learned from his father, filmmaker Les Blank, and the BA in Theater Arts/Film he earned at UC Santa Cruz in 1986, Blank began photographing other Art Car…
Filmography
movieSalvation Mountain - Leonard Knight
2025 · Director
movieMotorcycle Moment
2025 · Executive Producer
movieDugout Dick
2022 · Director, Producer, Cinematography
movieWhy Can't I Be Me? Around You
2019 · , Director
movieWarriors of Joy: A Native American Celebration in Louisiana
2014 · Director, Cinematography
movieOh My God! It's Harrod Blank!
2008 · Self
movieAutomorphosis
2007 · Himself, Director
movieDriving the Dream
1997 · Director
movieWild Wheels
1992 · Director
moviePuamana
1991 · Additional Editing
movieKiller Klowns from Outer Space
1988 · Klown Performer
movieWerner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988 · Assistant Camera
movieRy Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball
1988 · Assistant Camera, Assistant Editor
movieHuey Lewis and the News: Before!
1987 · Assistant Sound Editor
movieIn the Land of the Owl Turds
1987 · Roland, Director, Writer, Editor
movieGap-Toothed Women
1987 · Sound Recordist
moviePeggy Sue Got Married
1986 · Dancer (uncredited)
movieGarlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980 · Self - Youth Saved From Dysentery
movieA Poem Is a Naked Person
1974 · Executive Producer
movieGoodnight, Operator
— · Bill
You Can't Squeeze Blood Out Of A Turnip
movieYou Can't Squeeze Blood Out Of A Turnip
— · Executive Producer