Chapter 6 Robert Gardner’s Reality

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. contents v
3. Robert Gardner vii
4. Overviews and General Topics
5. Some Notes on Robert Gardner 1
6. In Flight with Robert Gardner 11
7. Colors 23
8. Aesthetic Form and Ethnographic Discourse 31
9. Robert Gardner and Jean Rouch: 49
10. Robert Gardner’s Reality 65
11. To Give, To Take, and To Return 81
12. Ethno-Cine-Poet: Robert Gardner and Experimental Film 93
13. A Revolution in Favor of Television: WCVB-TV and Robert Gardner’s Screening Room 109
14. On Shamanism and Other Encounters: A Conversation with Robert Gardner in Mexico 125
15. Returning with Robert Gardner to the Baliem Valley, 1988–89 139
16. Looking at Individual Films
17. First Encounters: An Essay on Dead Birds and Robert Gardner 143
18. Allegory and Gender Representation in Rivers of Sand 171
19. Word against Flesh in Rivers of Sand 187
20. Look At Me! Deep Hearts and the Vertiginous Self 203
21. Nomadic Metrosexuals: Framing Beauty, Editing Ritual, and Exhibiting Masculinity in Deep Hearts 215
22. Film, Matter, and Spirit: Forest of Bliss 229
23. The Same Thing from Different Angles: Resituating Forest of Bliss 247
24. Hand Eye Coordination: Robert Gardner’s Artist Films 265
25. Learning from Catalonia 281
26. Dead Birds Re-Encountered: A Journey of Return 295
27. Acknowledgments 319
28. Credits 320
29. Appendices 321
30. Contributors 325
31. Index 329