Making Dead Birds

Chronicle of a Film

Robert Gardner

  • Honorable Mention, 2008 New England Museum Association Book Award for Books over $10.00

This revealing text is a serious addition to written and visual publications about Dani encounters, and it leaves the reader wishing for more.
   --Steven Feld, editor-translator of Jean Rouch: Cine-Ethnography

Robert Gardner returns cinema to its most primal and far-reaching task and mission: discovering the world.
   --Tom Gunning, author of The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity

  • Cover: Making <i>Dead Birds</i>

Filmmaker Robert Gardner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; founding director of Harvard Film Study Center (1957-1997); former director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts; faculty member, Department of Anthropology and Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, 1960-2000. He is the author of The Impulse to Preserve (2006) and Making Dead Birds: Chronicle of a Film (2007).