Making Forest of Bliss

Intention, Circumstance, and Chance in Nonfiction Film

Robert Gardner

Ákos Östör

    Foreword
    Robert Gardner

    Foreword
    Ákos Östör

    Introduction
    Stanley Cavell

    Making Forest of Bliss

    Intention, Circumstance, and Chance in Nonfiction Film
    A conversation between Robert Gardner + Ákos Östör

    Shot List Forest of Bliss

    Bibliography

    DVD Forest of Bliss

  • Cover: Making <i>Forest of Bliss</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).

Akos Ostor is Professor of Anthropology, Wesleyan University.