Robert Gardner
- Regie
- 5. November 1925 · Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- 21. Juni 2014
Biografie
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.
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Filmografie
- Expedition Content · Additional Photography
- Still Journey On · Regie
- Deus Ex Boltanski · Regie
- Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! · Selbst
- Islam: Empire of Faith · Regie
- Looking at Forest of Bliss · Selbst, Regie
- Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator · Cinematography
- Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer) · Regie
- Sean Scully: Passenger · Regie
- Birth of a Nation · Selbst
- It Could Be Good, It Could Be Bad · Regie
- Scully in Malaga · Regie
- Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses · Regie
- Time Indefinite · Selbst
- Dancing with Miklos · Regie
- Hauling Sharks · Regie
- Ika Hands · Regie, Cinematography
- Wald der Glückseligkeit · Regie, Schnitt
- Loving Krishna · Narrator
- Serpent Mother · Narrator
- Life Keeps on Passing · Regie
- Supplicating Women · Regie
- Sons of Shiva · Regie
- Cìobairean Bhearnaraidh · Ausführende Produktion
- Deep Hearts · Schnitt, Regie
- Q'eros: The Shape of Survival · Narrator
- Healing · Regie
- Altar of Fire · Regie
- Rivers of Sand · Regie, Schnitt
- Policeman · Regie
- Anthem · Regie
- Farmer · Regie
- Lobsterman · Regie
- Mark Tobey Abroad · Regie, Cinematography
- Screening Room · Selbst, Regie
- Reality's Invisible · Selbst
- Land-Divers of Melanesia · Regie
- The Nuer · Produktion, Additional Photography
- Creatures of Pain · Regie
- Salt · Regie
- The Great Sail · Regie
- Tide · Regie
- The Photographer · Regie
- People and Particles · Produktion
- Marathon · Regie
- Dead Birds · Narrator, Regie
- Flaherty and Film · Selbst
- The Old Lady AKA A Human Document · Regie
- The Hunters · Regie
- Mark Tobey · Regie
- Fort Rupert · Narrator
- Blunden Harbour · Regie
- Dances of the Kwakiutl · Produktion