Robert Gardner Movies
- 1960
Flaherty and Film
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- 1973
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...
- 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...
- 1974
Rivers of Sand
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The people portrayed in this film are called Hamar. They dwell in the thorny scrubland of southwestern Ethiopia, about one hundred miles north of...
- 1952
Mark Tobey
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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...
- 2000
Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator
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A documentary about a legendary American film maker/aviator Robert Fulton who was contracted by the BBC to film aerial cinematography throughout...
- 1951
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...
- 2010
Still Journey On
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An unfinished examination of life by Robert Gardner
- 1968
Creatures of Pain
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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...
- 2000
Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)
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"Good to Pull" is a 10 minute film by Robert Gardner, produced by the Film Study Center at Harvard University. Watch Michael Mazur’s...
- 1997
Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses
Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses01997HD
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...
- 1965
People and Particles
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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...
- 1973
Farmer
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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...
- 1951
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...
- 1973
Anthem
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Short film photographed by Robert Gardner
- 1973
Policeman
Policeman01973HD
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...
- 1978
Healing
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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...
- 1997
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...
- 1973
Lobsterman
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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...
- 1993
Dancing with Miklos
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"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...