MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center retrospective and dialogue Robert Redford: Independent/Visionary, highlighting Robert Redford’s acting and directing achievements and the ongoing legacy of building the independent film movement through the Sundance Film Festival, will begin September 30 with repertory screenings and culminate in a dialogue between Robert Redford and film critic Amy Taubin on November 12.

“The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact. Of course, you hope it has impact…I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn’t one.” —Robert Redford

The Walker celebrates the career of Robert Redford as a director, actor, activist, and leading advocate for independent cinema with its 2016 Dialogue & Retrospective Robert Redford: Independent/Visionary.

On Wednesdays, the retrospective will showcase Redford’s acting and directing achievements, including classics like George Roy Hill’s reinvention of the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Redford’s heartfelt, family melodrama Ordinary People.

The retrospective continues on weekends with a tribute to the legacy of Sundance Institute, which Redford founded. This series features extraordinary works of independent cinema including Charles Burnett’s phenomenal To Sleep with Anger, new classics such as the dynamic, musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, plus a first look at a film fresh from this year’s festival, Certain Women, with director Kelly Reichardt present.

The program culminates with a conversation between Robert Redford and film critic Amy Taubin, one of the 20th century’s leading important writers about independent cinema.

Redford began his career in theater then television before moving onto feature films; he emerged as a major star in 1969 with the release of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, his first on screen collaboration with Paul Newman. He went on to star in the political hits The Candidate and All The President’s Men, but it was the 1972 sleeper-hit Jeremiah Johnson, shot on location in Utah, that inspired a lifelong commitment to environmental activism and independent cinema.

In 1981, motivated by the potential of independent film, Redford set up Sundance Institute, which hosts Labs for artists as well as the Sundance Film Festival. For the last thirty-five years the Institute has continued to be a key platform for creative and underrepresented filmmakers.

The 1980s marked the beginning of Redford’s career as a director with his Academy Award winning drama Ordinary People and continued with films including Quiz Show. Both films will screen in the retrospective.

A visionary who has transformed American cinema, Redford continues to advocate for imaginative young filmmakers, new voices and environmental consciousness.