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Robert H. Gardner
Robert H. Gardner (born, June 3, 1947, in Berkeley, California) is an American documentary filmmaker, producer and director of ''The Courage to Care'', ''Egypt: Quest for Immortality'', ''Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land'', ''National Geographic Explorer series; Search for the Lost Ark'', ''Tiwanaku'', and ''Desert Warriors''; The History Channel series ''Barbarians (miniseries), Barbarians, Barbarians II'', and ''Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire''. In 2001 his series ''Islam: Empire of Faith'' aired on PBS, as well as ''Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World'' in 2012. Biography He began working in 1967 in Washington, D.C., as a camera and editing assistant for Eli Productions, producing social issue documentaries for the short-lived, experimental television show, Public Broadcast Laboratory, on NET, the precursor to PBS. In 1968 he was part of the documentary crew covering the presidential campaign of Hubert Humphrey. He directed and edited children’ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gardner (anthropologist)
Robert Grosvenor Gardner (November 5, 1925 – June 21, 2014) was an American academic, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker who was the Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard University from 1956 to 1997. He is known for his work in the field of visual anthropology and films like the National Film Registry inductee '' Dead Birds'' and ''Forest of Bliss''. In 2011, a retrospective of his work was held at Film Forum, New York. Biography He was the sixth child and third son, born in the home of his grandmother Isabella Stewart Gardner. He was a cousin of poet Robert Lowell. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1947, he became an assistant to the founder of the Byzantine Institute of America, Thomas Whittemore at Harvard's Fogg Museum. This led to travels to Anatolia, Fayum and London working with Coptic textiles and restoring Byzantine art Next, he started teaching medieval art and history at the College of Puget Sound in Washingt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
