The Impulse to Preserve

Reflections of a Filmmaker

Robert Gardner

Foreword by Charles Simic

    • Preface
    • Foreword
    • A Human Document
    • Dead Birds
    • A Kind of Sacrifice
    • Creatures of Pain
    • The Nuer
    • Rivers of Sand
    • The Hanging
    • Ladakh
    • Deep Hearts
    • Ika Hands
    • Rushes: Forest of Bliss
    • Passenger
    • Illustrations
    • Notes
    • Relevant Books
    • Acknowledgments
  • Cover: The Impulse to Preserve

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).