Robert Gardner Movies

  • 1960
    Flaherty and Film

    Flaherty and Film

    Flaherty and Film

    01960HD

    Flaherty and Film
  • 1973
    Mark Tobey Abroad

    Mark Tobey Abroad

    Mark Tobey Abroad

    01973HD

    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
  • 1972
    Land-Divers of Melanesia

    Land-Divers of Melanesia

    Land-Divers of Melanesia

    01972HD

    On the island of Pentecost in the New Hebrides archipelago, a few hundred Melanesians maintain a traditional life thanks to their geographic...

    Land-Divers of Melanesia
  • 1974
    Rivers of Sand

    Rivers of Sand

    Rivers of Sand

    61974HD

    The people portrayed in this film are called Hamar. They dwell in the thorny scrubland of southwestern Ethiopia, about one hundred miles north of...

    Rivers of Sand
  • 1952
    Mark Tobey

    Mark Tobey

    Mark Tobey

    01952HD

    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...

    Mark Tobey
  • 2000
    Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator

    Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator

    Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator

    02000HD

    A documentary about a legendary American film maker/aviator Robert Fulton who was contracted by the BBC to film aerial cinematography throughout...

    Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator
  • 1951
    Fort Rupert

    Fort Rupert

    Fort Rupert

    01951HD

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

    Fort Rupert
  • 2010
    Still Journey On

    Still Journey On

    Still Journey On

    02010HD

    An unfinished examination of life by Robert Gardner

    Still Journey On
  • 1968
    Creatures of Pain

    Creatures of Pain

    Creatures of Pain

    01968HD

    In 1967 I was hoping to make a film about sheepherders in Nigeria. Civil War intervened and I had to be content with a few days attending a ritual...

    Creatures of Pain
  • 2000
    Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)

    Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)

    Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)

    02000HD

    "Good to Pull" is a 10 minute film by Robert Gardner, produced by the Film Study Center at Harvard University. Watch Michael Mazur’s...

    Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)
  • 1997
    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

    01997HD

    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
  • 1965
    People and Particles

    People and Particles

    People and Particles

    01965HD

    This film was produced to make the life of science more appealing to school children in America. It was intended to tell the story of purpose and...

    People and Particles
  • 1973
    Farmer

    Farmer

    Farmer

    01973HD

    While active in the programming of ABC affiliate Channel 5 in Boston, Gardner was permitted to make a few short one-minute vignettes illustrating the...

    Farmer
  • 1951
    Dances of the Kwakiutl

    Dances of the Kwakiutl

    Dances of the Kwakiutl

    01951HD

    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
  • 1973
    Anthem

    Anthem

    Anthem

    01973HD

    Short film photographed by Robert Gardner

    Anthem
  • 1973
    Policeman

    Policeman

    Policeman

    01973HD

    Early in the seventies I was involved in the programming of an ABC affiliate TV station in Boston (Channel 5). I was given the opportunity to make...

    Policeman
  • 1978
    Healing

    Healing

    Healing

    01978HD

    I went to Ladakh in the vain search for a shaman. What I found was a species of Buddhist healing that involved trance and a variety of magical tricks...

    Healing
  • 1997
    Scully in Malaga

    Scully in Malaga

    Scully in Malaga

    01997HD

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

    Scully in Malaga
  • 1973
    Lobsterman

    Lobsterman

    Lobsterman

    01973HD

    While active in the programming of ABC affiliate Channel 5 in Boston, Gardner was permitted to make a few short one-minute vignettes illustrating the...

    Lobsterman
  • 1993
    Dancing with Miklos

    Dancing with Miklos

    Dancing with Miklos

    01993HD

    "When Michael Fitzgerald and I decided to help Mikos Jansco make The Blue Danube Waltz neither of us even considered the possibility of not watching...

    Dancing with Miklos