Robert Gardner Movies

  • 2013
    Dead Birds Re-Encountered

    Dead Birds Re-Encountered

    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.

    Dead Birds Re-Encountered
  • 1972
    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

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    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...

    Reality's Invisible
  • 1986
    Forest of Bliss

    Forest of Bliss

    Forest of Bliss

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    Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily...

    Forest of Bliss
  • 1997
    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

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    Testigos is a small painting done when Gardner and Scully worked together in Barcelona. The title, which means 'witnesses,' is the name of a small...

    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses
  • 1973
    Mark Tobey Abroad

    Mark Tobey Abroad

    Mark Tobey Abroad

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    Robert Gardner visits the great American painter Mark Tobey in Basel, Switzerland, where he lived for the last years of his life. With remarkable...

    Mark Tobey Abroad
  • 1998
    Sean Scully: Passenger

    Sean Scully: Passenger

    Sean Scully: Passenger

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    In Passenger, Robert Gardner made what he calls “an observation in four movements.” The intent of the piece is to impart an experience of...

    Sean Scully: Passenger
  • 1997
    Scully in Malaga

    Scully in Malaga

    Scully in Malaga

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    A short film acknowledging the efforts of those responsible for installing the exhibition “Sean Scully 1987-1997” in Malaga. Equally...

    Scully in Malaga
  • 1951
    Fort Rupert

    Fort Rupert

    Fort Rupert

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    Kwakiutl, Kwakwaka'Wakw, potlatches. British Columbia tribe as a civilization in decline as assimilation has almost obliterated native culture. Fort...

    Fort Rupert
  • 1951
    Dances of the Kwakiutl

    Dances of the Kwakiutl

    Dances of the Kwakiutl

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    Dances of the Kwakiutl is composed of fragments filmed in 1950 in Fort Rupert, British Columbia. They were made during a performance by those still...

    Dances of the Kwakiutl