Robert Gardner Movies

  • 1958
    The Old Lady AKA A Human Document

    The Old Lady AKA A Human Document

    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...

    The Old Lady AKA A Human Document
  • 1993
    Dancing with Miklos

    Dancing with Miklos

    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...

    Dancing with Miklos
  • 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
  • 1988
    Hauling Sharks

    Hauling Sharks

    Hauling Sharks

    01988HD

    The coastal Danakil in Northeastern Ethiopia have found an environmentally suitable way of life netting sharks far out to sea which they export to...

    Hauling Sharks
  • 1985
    Supplicating Women

    Supplicating Women

    Supplicating Women

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    While shooting in Benares for Forest of Bliss, I stumbled upon a temple visited by women who came to it with a variety of ailments including love...

    Supplicating Women
  • 1966
    The Photographer

    The Photographer

    The Photographer

    01966HD

    Short by Robert Gardner

    The Photographer
  • 1968
    Salt

    Salt

    Salt

    01968HD

    One of my filmic interests in Ethiopia was to see and film the salt trade between the Highlands and the Dallol Depression, a wondrous environment of...

    Salt
  • 1973
    Lobsterman

    Lobsterman

    Lobsterman

    01973HD

    While active in the programming of ABC affiliate Channel 5 in Boston, Gardner was permitted to make a few short one-minute vignettes illustrating the...

    Lobsterman
  • 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