Looking with Robert Gardner / edited by Rebecca Meyers, William Rothman, and Charles Warren.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction / Robert Gardner -- Part I: Overviews and General Topics -- Some Notes on Robert Gardner / Eliot Weinberger -- In Flight with Robert Gardner / Tom Conley -- Colors / Fanny Howe -- Aesthetic Form and Ethnographic Discourse / Daniel Morgan -- Robert Gardner and Jean Rouch: Regards Croisés / Maxime Scheinfeigel -- Robert Gardner's Reality / Charles Warren -- To Give, To Take, and To Return / Gayatri Chatterjee -- Ethno-Cine-Poet: Robert Gardner and Experimental Film / Kathryn Ramey -- A Revolution in Favor of Television: WCVB-TV and Robert Gardner's Screening Room / Brian L. Frye -- On Shamanism and Other Encounters: A Conversation with Robert Gardner in Mexico / Carlos Y. Flores and Antonio Zirión -- Returning with Robert Gardner to the Baliem Valley, 1988-89; Part II: Looking at Individual Films / Susan Meiselas.

Part II. Looking at Individual Films -- First Encounters: An Essay on Dead Birds and Robert Gardner / Charles Musser -- Allegory and Gender Representation in Rivers of Sand / Mauro Bucci -- Word against Flesh in Rivers of Sand / Irina Leimbacher -- Look At Me! Deep Hearts and the Vertiginous Self / Murray Pomerance -- Nomadic Metrosexuals: Framing Beauty, Editing Ritual, and Exhibiting Masculinity in Deep Hearts / Ricardo E. Zulueta -- Film, Matter, and Spirit: Forest of Bliss / Richard Allen -- The Same Thing from Different Angles: Resituating Forest of Bliss / Julia Yezbick -- Hand Eye Coordination: Robert Gardner's Artists Films / Richard Deming -- Learning from Catalonia / Bruce Jenkins -- Dead Birds Re-Encountered: A Journey of Return / WIlliam Rothman.

"During his lifetime, Robert Gardner (1925-2014) was often pigeonholed as an ethnographic filmmaker, then criticized for failing to conform to the genre's conventions--conventions he radically challenged. With the release of his groundbreaking film Dead Birds in 1963, Gardner established himself as one of the world's most extraordinary independent filmmakers, working in a unique border area between ethnography, the essay film, and poetic/experimental cinema. Richly illustrated, Looking with Robert Gardner assesses the range and magnitude of Gardner's achievements not only as a filmmaker but also as a still photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema. The contributors give critical attention to Gardner's most ambitious films, such as Dead Birds (1963, New Guinea), Rivers of Sand (1975, Ethiopia), and Forest of Bliss (1986, India), as well as lesser-known films that equally exemplify his mode of seeking anthropological understanding through artistic means. They also attend to his films about artists, including his self-depiction in Still Journey On (2011); to his roots in experimental film and his employment of experimental procedures; and to his support of independent filmmakers through the Harvard Film Study Center and the television series Screening Room, which provided an opportunity for numerous important film and video artists to present and discuss their work."--Publisher's website

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