Directing · geboren 1925-11-05 · Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

Robert Gardner

Robert Gardner was the Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard University from 1957 to 1997. He is known for his work in the field of non-fiction film. He is an internationally renowned filmmaker and author whose works have entered the permanent canon of non-fiction filmmaking. Some of his most prominent films include Dead Birds (1964), a lyric account of the Dugum Dani, a Stone Age society at one time living an isolated existence in the Highlands of the former Netherlands New Guinea (Gardner was the leader of the Peabody Museum-sponsored expedition to study the Dani in 1961-62); Rivers of Sand (1974), a social commentary on the Hamar people of southwestern Ethiopia; and Forest of Bliss (1985), a cinematic essay on the ancient city of Benares, India, which explores the ceremonies, rituals, and industries associated with death and regeneration. Gardner’s films have received numerous awards, including the Robert J. Flaherty Award for best nonfiction film (twice); the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Florence Film Festival (three times); and First Prizes at the Trento, USA Dallas, Melbourne, Nuoro, EarthWatch, Athens, and San Francisco film festivals. His films have been invited to Festivals throughout the world including Jerusalem, Bergen, London, Munich, Toronto, Montreal, Margaret Mead, Marseilles, Locarno, Chicago and Cinema du Réel.

Bekannt aus

• Wald der Glückseligkeit (1986) – Director
• Time Indefinite (1993) – Himself
• Dead Birds (1963) – Narrator
• Reality's Invisible (1972) – Self
• The Hunters (1957) – Director
• Birth of a Nation (1997) – Self
• Rivers of Sand (1974) – Director
• The Nuer (1970) – Producer
• Q'eros: The Shape of Survival (1979) – Narrator
• Loving Krishna (1985) – Narrator
• Altar of Fire (1976) – Director
• Cìobairean Bhearnaraidh (1981) – Executive Producer
• Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator (2000) – Cinematography
• Flaherty and Film (1960) – Self - Host
• Looking at Forest of Bliss (2000) – Himself
• Fort Rupert (1951) – Narrator
• Serpent Mother (1985) – Narrator
• Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! (2003) – Self
• Screening Room (1972) – Himself
• Mark Tobey (1952) – Director
• Deep Hearts (1980) – Director
• Marathon (1965) – Director
• Sons of Shiva (1985) – Director
• Dancing with Miklos (1993) – Director
• Mark Tobey Abroad (1973) – Director
• Blunden Harbour (1951) – Director
• Land-Divers of Melanesia (1972) – Director
• Ika Hands (1988) – Director
• Expedition Content (2022) – Additional Photography
• Dances of the Kwakiutl (1951) – Producer
• Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer) (2000) – Director
• Scully in Malaga (1997) – Director
• Sean Scully: Passenger (1998) – Director
• Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses (1997) – Director
• Policeman (1973) – Director
• Farmer (1973) – Director
• Lobsterman (1973) – Director
• The Old Lady AKA A Human Document (1958) – Director
• Salt (1968) – Director
• The Photographer (1966) – Director