Robert Gardner Movies

  • 1976
    Altar of Fire

    Altar of Fire

    Altar of Fire

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    This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last...

    Altar of Fire
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Deus Ex Boltanski

    Deus Ex Boltanski

    Deus Ex Boltanski

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    Robert Gardner has known Boltanski since the 1970s, when he invited him to the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard as a visting artist, and...

    Deus Ex Boltanski
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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