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Robert Grosvenor Gardner (November 5, 1925 – June 21, 2014) was an American academic, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker who was the Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard University from 1956 to 1997.
Jun 27, 2014 · Robert Gardner, an intrepid filmmaker who specialized in anthropological documentaries, examining lives in remote societies around the globe, died on June 21 in Boston. He was 88. The...
Robert Gardner is the author of A Human Document (1965), Gardens of War (with Karl Heider, 1968), Making Forest of Bliss: Intention, Circumstance, and Chance in Nonfiction Film (with Ákös Öster, 2002), The Impulse to Preserve (2006), and Making Dead Birds: Chronicle of a Film (2007).
Robert Gardner (1925-2014) 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.
Robert Gardner was already recognized as an important ethnographic filmmaker by the time he premiered Dead Birds in October 1963 at Harvard’s Loeb Drama Center. Fifty years later, the film stands as a turning point in Gardner’s career and indeed in the field of visual anthropology.
Nov 8, 2010 · Robert Gardner Collection. Searching for a path between receiving his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Harvard in the late Forties, Robert Gardner (1925 - 2014) began to embark upon his lifelong journey documenting the arts and rituals of cultures near and far.
Oct 29, 2013 · It is the 50th anniversary of “Dead Birds,” the groundbreaking documentary of a Stone Age tribe that survived into the 20th century. Its creator was Robert Gardner, longtime director of the Film Study Center.
Jun 29, 2014 · Anthropologist Robert Gardner, 88, of Cambridge, who founded the Harvard Film Archive, reinvented the art of ethnographic films, those documentary studies of faraway people and their cultures...
One of America’s great documentarians, Robert Gardner (b. 1925) has remained committed to a fearsomely independent and uncompromising vision of the cinema throughout his long and prolific career. Gardner’s early films, such as Blunden Harbour, ...
Selected Works. “It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those who sense the profound affinity that exists between the film medium and a desire to understand people.”. -Robert Gardner.
