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Robert Gardner

  • Name: Robert Gardner
  • Birthday: 1925-11-05
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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
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