Robert Gardner Movies

  • 1998
    Sean Scully: Passenger

    Sean Scully: Passenger

    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...

    Sean Scully: Passenger
  • 1951
    Dances of the Kwakiutl

    Dances of the Kwakiutl

    Dances of the Kwakiutl

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    Dances of the Kwakiutl is composed of fragments filmed in 1950 in Fort Rupert, British Columbia. They were made during a performance by those still...

    Dances of the Kwakiutl
  • 1997
    Scully in Malaga

    Scully in Malaga

    Scully in Malaga

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    A short film acknowledging the efforts of those responsible for installing the exhibition “Sean Scully 1987-1997” in Malaga. Equally...

    Scully in Malaga
  • 1972
    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

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    Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton...

    Reality's Invisible
  • 1986
    Forest of Bliss

    Forest of Bliss

    Forest of Bliss

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    Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily...

    Forest of Bliss
  • 1973
    Mark Tobey Abroad

    Mark Tobey Abroad

    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...

    Mark Tobey Abroad
  • 1966
    The Great Sail

    The Great Sail

    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...

    The Great Sail
  • 1968
    Creatures of Pain

    Creatures of Pain

    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...

    Creatures of Pain
  • 1972
    Land-Divers of Melanesia

    Land-Divers of Melanesia

    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...

    Land-Divers of Melanesia
  • 1965
    People and Particles

    People and Particles

    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...

    People and Particles
  • 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

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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...

    It Could Be Good, It Could Be Bad