Tag: Film Study Center

  • Nation & World

    ‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope

    A large-scale, audio-video installation uses the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a starting point to examine the fragility of humanity. “Ah humanity!” was created by Harvard artists Ernst Karel, Véréna Paravel, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

    3 minutes
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    Filmmaker Robert Gardner, 88

    Robert Gardner ’48, A.M. ’58, the noted anthropological filmmaker who founded the Peabody Museum’s Film Study Center, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 88.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    An ancient tribe, and change

    It is the 50th anniversary of “Dead Birds,” the groundbreaking documentary of a Stone Age tribe that survived into the 20th century. Its creator was Robert Gardner, longtime director of the Film Study Center.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Alpha, beta, Zeega

    Three Harvard affiliates are launching Zeega, a software platform that makes it easy for Internet storytellers to blend audio, images, and text from the riches of the Web.

    7 minutes
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    Harvard filmmakers in Berlin

    Filmmakers with Harvard ties are showing, speaking, and mingling at the Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival.

    5 minutes
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    Film Study Center offers fellowships

    The Film Study Center (FSC) at Harvard University offers fellowships for the production of original film, video, photographic, and phonographic projects.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    The sounds of nature, as music

    The Woodberry Poetry Room hosts an evening of forest recordings and verse about nature, twinning sounds with wordplay.

    3 minutes
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    Film Forum to host Gardner retrospective

    The Film Forum in New York City will host a one-week retrospective of documentarian and ethnographer Robert Gardner’s influential films from Nov. 11 to Nov. 17.

    1 minute
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    From A to Zeega

    Three Harvard affiliates nab a big new-media prize, and marvel at the University’s converging forces that mix the digital age with traditional scholarship.

    8 minutes
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    A vanishing neighborhood

    Two Harvard ethnographers directed the prize-winning “Foreign Parts,” a documentary that captures the sights and sounds of Willets Point, a vibrant, vanishing corner of New York City.

    5 minutes