05-11-1925
Birthday
Scorpio
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
6
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Place of Birth
05-11-1925
Birthday
Scorpio
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
6
Total Films
-
Also Known As (male)
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Place of Birth
actor
6 Works
producer
5 Works
director
45 Works
writer
3 Works
other
17 Works
Looking at Forest of Bliss
Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss. The film is shown in its entirety, with Gardner occasionally pausing to elucidate, and Brakhage brilliantly observing tonality, poetic imagery, life, death, the unconscious, and, well, just being damned insightful. - dredYear:
2000
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival
Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.Year:
1979
Reality's Invisible
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 would later serve as a cinematographer on Gardner’s 1981 documentary Deep Hearts, among others). Reality’s Invisible could be described as a portrait of the Carpenter Center, yet it is a portrait of an extremely idiosyncratic and distinctive sort. Fulton moves us through the concrete space of the Center’s Le Corbusier-designed building—the only structure by the architect in North America—but, more centrally, presents us footage of students making and discussing their work alongside figures like Gardner, theorist Rudolf Arnheim, artist Stan Vanderbeek, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and graphic designer Toshi Katayama.Year:
1972
Dead Birds
The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a mountain people," believe that there was once a great race between a bird and a snake, which was to determine the lives of human beings. Should men shed their skins and live forever like snakes, or die like birds? The bird won the race, dictating that man must die. The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua. Weyak is a warrior who guards the frontier between the land of his tribe and that of the neighboring tribe. Pua is a young boy whom Gardner depicts as weak and inept.Year:
1963
Flaherty and Film
Year:
1960
Fort Rupert
Kwakiutl, Kwakwaka'Wakw, potlatches. British Columbia tribe as a civilization in decline as assimilation has almost obliterated native culture. Fort Rupert, Britsh Columbia CanadaYear:
1951
