Robert Gardner Movies

  • 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
  • 1973
    Farmer

    Farmer

    Farmer

    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...

    Farmer
  • 1973
    Policeman

    Policeman

    Policeman

    01973HD

    Early in the seventies I was involved in the programming of an ABC affiliate TV station in Boston (Channel 5). I was given the opportunity to make...

    Policeman
  • 1997
    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses

    01997HD

    Testigos is a small painting done when Gardner and Scully worked together in Barcelona. The title, which means 'witnesses,' is the name of a small...

    Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses
  • 1985
    Life Keeps on Passing

    Life Keeps on Passing

    Life Keeps on Passing

    01985HD

    One of my thoughts while shooting Forest of Bliss was to see and hear what poets might have to say about their surroundings. These scenes recount...

    Life Keeps on Passing
  • 1978
    Healing

    Healing

    Healing

    01978HD

    I went to Ladakh in the vain search for a shaman. What I found was a species of Buddhist healing that involved trance and a variety of magical tricks...

    Healing
  • 2000
    Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)

    Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)

    Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)

    02000HD

    "Good to Pull" is a 10 minute film by Robert Gardner, produced by the Film Study Center at Harvard University. Watch Michael Mazur’s...

    Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)
  • 1952
    Mark Tobey

    Mark Tobey

    Mark Tobey

    01952HD

    This short documentary was made while the painter lived in Seattle, Washington, early in the 1950s. It is only the second film made by Robert Gardner...

    Mark Tobey