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The video installation "Ah humanity!" explores the often fraught relationship between humans and the natural world.

‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope

Three artists from Harvard bring large-scale, audio-video installation about the fragility of modern life to Science Center Plaza

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DateApril 12, 2016July 9, 2019

Filmmaker Robert Gardner, 88

Anthropological filmmaker helped pioneer film studies at Harvard

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DateJuly 7, 2014June 19, 2019

Harvard University documentary film legend Robert Gardner celebrated the 50th anniversary of his signature ethnographic film "Dead Birds."

An ancient tribe, and change

50 years after ‘Dead Birds,’ Robert Gardner recounts making the film, and its sequel

Arts|

DateOctober 29, 2013March 14, 2019

James Burns (from left), Kara Oehler, and Jesse Shapins have created an engine of change: Its name is Zeega. Launching today, it will provide an intuitive way for Internet users to harness the Web’s riches of text, imaging, and audio for multimedia stories.

Alpha, beta, Zeega

A new multimedia platform to deepen, improve storytelling

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DateMarch 6, 2013September 11, 2019

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, both at Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, are screening their co-directed “Leviathan” (2012), a wordless, sensual, and phantasmagoric portrait of commercial fishing aboard a trawler out of New Bedford, Mass., this week at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Harvard filmmakers in Berlin

They have promising entries in major movie festival

Arts|

DateFebruary 14, 2013July 26, 2019

Film Study Center offers fellowships

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DateJanuary 11, 2013April 9, 2019

Bernie Krause (left), author of "The Great Animal Orchestra," and Jonathan Skinner, poet and founding editor of Ecopoetics, perform a call-and-response poetic soundscape. See sidebar for audio examples.

The sounds of nature, as music

Woodberry Poetry Room program pairs forest recordings with verse

Arts|

DateOctober 1, 2012

Film Forum to host Gardner retrospective

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DateOctober 11, 2011June 4, 2019

Harvard affiliates Kara Oehler (from left), Jesse Shapins, and James Burns have won the Knight News Challenge, a fiercely competitive international contest, and will use the funding to develop a prototype software called Zeega, an open-source web platform designed to make collaborative multimedia documentaries cheaper and easier to produce.

From A to Zeega

Harvard team wins prize for multimedia software

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DateJune 23, 2011July 30, 2019

“Foreign Parts,” an 80-minute documentary film co-directed by two fellows at Harvard’s Film Study Center, has already captured six international film prizes. Its first screening in Cambridge is at 7 p.m. April 22 at the Harvard Film Archive. Among those you'll be introduced to are Luis and Sara, a married couple who live in a van.

A vanishing neighborhood

Film by Harvard fellows creates visual record of scrappy N.Y. district

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DateApril 12, 2011June 14, 2019

FSC-Harvard fellows Paravel & Sniadecki win Locarno film awards

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DateAugust 25, 2010March 15, 2019