Deep Hearts

Deep Hearts 1980

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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 thought and demeanor.

1980

Little Deaths

Little Deaths 2010

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Interviewees describe the experience of orgasm in an animated investigation on sexual climax.

2010

Mark Tobey Abroad

Mark Tobey Abroad 1973

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Robert Gardner visits the great American painter Mark Tobey in Basel, Switzerland, where he lived for the last years of his life. With remarkable candor and objectivity, Tobey discusses his work and that of fellow artists including Picasso.

1973

Looking at Forest of Bliss

Looking at Forest of Bliss 2000

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Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss. The film is shown in its entirety, with Gardner occasionally pausing to elucidate, and Brakhage brilliantly observing tonality, poetic imagery, life, death, the unconscious, and, well, just being damned insightful. - dred

2000