People
Robert Gardner
Biography:
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Looking at Forest of Bliss as Himself | 2000-05-13 |
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival as Narrator | 1979-03-14 |
Reality's Invisible as Himself | 1972-04-19 |
Dead Birds as Narrator | 1963-10-01 |
Flaherty and Film as Self - Host | 1960-01-01 |