Direction: Robert Gardner
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Gardner. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 11
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Blunden Harbour (S)
1952 · Documentary · 20 min. · United States
Direction Robert Gardner
Plot In the late 1940?s Blunden Harbour was a small village on the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia inhabited by a handful of impoverished families of Kwakiutl Indians who...
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The Hunters
1957 · Documentary · 72 min. · United States
Direction Robert Gardner · John Marshall
Plot This film follows the hunting of a giraffe by four members of the Ju/'hoansi (a !Kung Bushmen tribe) over a 13-day period in the Kalahari desert.
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Sons of Shiva
1985 · Documentary · 29 min. · United States
Direction Robert Gardner · Akos Ostor
Plot 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 initial taking...
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Passenger (S)
1998 · Documentary · 25 min. · United States
Direction Robert Gardner
Plot In Passenger Gardner made what he calls "an observation in four movements." The intent of the piece is to impart an experience of the engagement by Scully with the work...
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Land-Divers of Melanesia
1972 · Documentary · 31 min. · United States
Direction Kal Muller · Robert Gardner
Plot To ensure a good yam crop, men of Pentecost Island in Melanesia attach vines to their ankles and dive headlong from a wooden tower over 100 feet tall. Those who...
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Deep Hearts
1981 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States
Direction Robert Gardner
Plot Deep Hearts is a film about the Bororo Fulani, a nomadic society located in central Niger Republic and the title is a reference to an important aspect of these people’s...
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Altar of Fire
1976 · Documentary · 55 min. · United States
Direction Robert Gardner
Plot A record of a twelve-day rite performed by Nambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, south-west India, in April 1975.
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