Robert Gardner Movies
- 1966

The Great Sail
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Alexander Calder's La Grande Voile was erected on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in 1966 with the artist directing the work. As the...
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- 1972

Land-Divers of Melanesia
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On the island of Pentecost in the New Hebrides archipelago, a few hundred Melanesians maintain a traditional life thanks to their geographic...
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- 1985

Sons of Shiva
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Sons of Shiva is a sustained attempt to film a four-day ceremony concerned with the worship of Shiva. Devotees of the God Shiva are shown from the...
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- 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...
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- 1998

Sean Scully: Passenger
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In Passenger, Robert Gardner made what he calls “an observation in four movements.” The intent of the piece is to impart an experience of...
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- 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...
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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...
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- 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...
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- 1997

It Could Be Good, It Could Be Bad
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Robert Fulton asked me to join him to do aerial photography in the Southern Chilean Andes. We rigged microphones to record what we were saying to...
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- 1958

The Old Lady AKA A Human Document
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The only film except for helping John Marshall with The Hunters that I did when I went to the Kalahari in 1957. I became entranced by an old lady...
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