Direction: Robert Gardner

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Gardner. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Forest of Bliss

1986 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Robert Gardner

7.3

67 votes

7.3

67 votes

Dead Birds

1963 · Documentary · 85 min. · United States

Direction Robert Gardner

7.0

25 votes

7.0

25 votes

Rivers of Sand

1974 · Documentary · 83 min. · United States

Direction Robert Gardner

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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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Ika Hands

1988 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States

Direction Robert Gardner

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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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