Robert Gardner Movies
- 1963
Dead Birds
Dead Birds5.81963HD
The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a...
- 1979
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival21979HD
Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.
- 1972
Reality's Invisible
Reality's Invisible5.91972HD
Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton...
- 1957
The Hunters
The Hunters6.11957HD
An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of...
- 1986
Forest of Bliss
Forest of Bliss6.41986HD
Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily...
- 1965
Marathon
Marathon01965HD
Started as a class project in what was likely the first filmmaking course ever taught at Harvard, Marathon documents the running of the 1964 Boston...
- 1951
Blunden Harbour
Blunden Harbour01951HD
“In the middle of the twentieth century, Blunden Harbour was a small village on the coast of Vancouver Island in British Colombia inhabited by...
- 1980
Deep Hearts
Deep Hearts01980HD
Deep Hearts is a film about the Bororo Fulani, a nomadic society located in central Niger Republic and the title is a reference to an important...
- 1974
Rivers of Sand
Rivers of Sand61974HD
The people portrayed in this film are called Hamar. They dwell in the thorny scrubland of southwestern Ethiopia, about one hundred miles north of...
- 1970
The Nuer
The Nuer5.51970HD
Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about their cattle, and depicts the psychological bonds...
- 2013
Dead Birds Re-Encountered
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Robert Gardner returns to the Dani villages where he made his seminal 1964 ethnographic documentary Dead Birds.
- 2000
Looking at Forest of Bliss
Looking at Forest of Bliss02000HD
Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss. The...
- 1973
Mark Tobey Abroad
Mark Tobey Abroad01973HD
Robert Gardner visits the great American painter Mark Tobey in Basel, Switzerland, where he lived for the last years of his life. With remarkable...
- 1988
Ika Hands
Ika Hands01988HD
In the highlands of Northern Columbia the Ika live a strenuous and isolated life, economically dependent on small gardens and a handful of domestic...
- 1972
Land-Divers of Melanesia
Land-Divers of Melanesia01972HD
On the island of Pentecost in the New Hebrides archipelago, a few hundred Melanesians maintain a traditional life thanks to their geographic...
- 1960
Flaherty and Film
Flaherty and Film01960HD
- 2022
Expedition Content
Expedition Content02022HD
Constructed from the audio archive of the 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea: In the encounter with the Hubula people, this...
- 1952
Mark Tobey
Mark Tobey01952HD
This short documentary was made while the painter lived in Seattle, Washington, early in the 1950s. It is only the second film made by Robert Gardner...
- 1981
The Shepherds of Berneray
The Shepherds of Berneray01981HD
In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their families to the island of Berneray in the Outer...
- 1985
Sons of Shiva
Sons of Shiva01985HD
Sons of Shiva is a sustained attempt to film a four-day ceremony concerned with the worship of Shiva. Devotees of the God Shiva are shown from the...