Robert Gardner Movies

  • 1966
    The Great Sail

    The Great Sail

    The Great Sail

    01966HD

    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...

    The Great Sail
  • 1972
    Land-Divers of Melanesia

    Land-Divers of Melanesia

    Land-Divers of Melanesia

    01972HD

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

    Land-Divers of Melanesia
  • 1985
    Sons of Shiva

    Sons of Shiva

    Sons of Shiva

    01985HD

    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...

    Sons of Shiva
  • 1993
    Dancing with Miklos

    Dancing with Miklos

    Dancing with Miklos

    01993HD

    "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...

    Dancing with Miklos
  • 1998
    Sean Scully: Passenger

    Sean Scully: Passenger

    Sean Scully: Passenger

    01998HD

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

    Sean Scully: Passenger
  • 1965
    People and Particles

    People and Particles

    People and Particles

    01965HD

    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...

    People and Particles
  • 1973
    Mark Tobey Abroad

    Mark Tobey Abroad

    Mark Tobey Abroad

    01973HD

    Robert Gardner visits the great American painter Mark Tobey in Basel, Switzerland, where he lived for the last years of his life. With remarkable...

    Mark Tobey Abroad
  • 1968
    Creatures of Pain

    Creatures of Pain

    Creatures of Pain

    01968HD

    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...

    Creatures of Pain
  • 1997
    It Could Be Good, It Could Be Bad

    It Could Be Good, It Could Be Bad

    It Could Be Good, It Could Be Bad

    01997HD

    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...

    It Could Be Good, It Could Be Bad
  • 1958
    The Old Lady AKA A Human Document

    The Old Lady AKA A Human Document

    The Old Lady AKA A Human Document

    01958HD

    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...

    The Old Lady AKA A Human Document